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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 79 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you pay money you can move up the queue.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The queue is an auction. Pay an amount you choose to watch the video, view order goes by who paid the most.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This legitimately sounds like a viable app idea. I don’t know jack about bringing it to life but I absolutely see people buying into it.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You want to make real money? Make with porn videos

If you are already half way there you can't just wait 10 minutes or you have to restart. You need the next video quickly.

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet that’d work well in FinDom circles. I know even less about the Porn industry than I do app making but the idea seems viable.

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[–] skyspydude1@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Funnily enough, this is almost exactly how ads are served to you. Advertisers get your profile, try and figure out how valuable an impression will be, bid against other advertisers, and the winning bid gets to show you the ad. All within the fraction of a second of a page loading.

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

Don’t give them ideas!!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This, but they can monetise it by having a bidding war and you can skip the line in regard of how much you pay.

Ahh, the capitalist hellscape is coming along nicely.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Invent a problem and make people pay for not having it.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And we define that as "added value" for some reason.

It really advances humanity.

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[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can bid on a box that may contain a coveted line skip, or one of over 50,000 emotes and valuable partner discounts.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Look at this employee of the month over here! :D

It's also practical bcs we don't have to code shit since there won't be any chances of winning.

[–] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Or buy booster packs in the store to jump up to ten places per purchase! Booster packs now only 799 Youtube Coins, sold in packs of 798 per pack!

[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's the e-book library model (in which a library only has X number of copies of a digital e-book, and you have to wait to get them)

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

thats so bullshit, pdfs dont run out wtf

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is about copyrights, not about physical supply.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] negativenull@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

It is totally real

[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You may have seen in the last few weeks that Internet Archive is trying to raise public support and funds for a legal fight. The thing they are being sued over? Exactly that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachette_v._Internet_Archive

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Artificial scarcity of digital goods is a fucking blight.

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jokes on you, using NewPipe I can run YouTube in the background for free. I can just set an alarm for in 297 days instead of waiting. Fools

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Get it downloaded once it's your turn

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then your vid buffers and you have to start over.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 7 points 2 years ago

NewPipe has a download feature that isn't just screen-grabbing. You can download 1080p via dial-up.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sign up for youtube Ultra premium and skip the queue!

[–] Shard@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ultra premium only allows you to join the express queue with other ultra premium users.

To skip the queue you need Diamond premium membership and a small fee of $2.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 10 points 2 years ago
[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Like FastPass at theme parks. You pay extra to stand in a shorter queue.

[–] solarvector@lemmy.zip 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No advertisements? Too unrealistic.

[–] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Screenshot fails to show the video attempting to load every 30 seconds. But it then turns out to be an advert.

Users get the same feeling they get whilst waiting for an agent, and the hold music gets interrupted with "your call is important to us..."

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

To save your time for anyone who had the same brainwave I had: Multiplying the length of the Blank Space video by 95,081 gives you 300 days, 10 hrs, 18 minutes and 33 seconds. So the wait time is close. Maybe they're counting on 1% of people dying during the wait.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nice of them to leave the queue in their last moments

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Actually 2% are expected to die, but only half of them remain in the queue because their phones are plugged in.

[–] HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maximum concurrent viewers for a given video could be a way to lower stress on YT servers, requiring less servers thus costing less to maintain, thus less ads/more money for creators, at least in a more rational and less greedy world.

[–] bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

If scheduled programming vs on demand was something that channel owners or users could pick for themselves it would be an apocalypse or a new golden age for YouTube.

Not sure which, but it would sure be different.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 17 points 2 years ago

It would show ads until then, or 5 ads, whatever comes last

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How about you gotta upload one video to watch one video. If you want to watch a video that has been watched two times you need a video that has been watched two times or a longer by two video that has been watched once, or two equivalent videos watched once time each.

[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That sounds like socialism to me!

[–] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Noh! Socialism is where only one guy works and the rest of us mooch from him.

So Libby.app but for video?

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

The Notify Me button is only for premium subscriptions

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Can girls just might be profitable enough for YouTube to try it!😆

I mean, think of the savings in server architecture!

[–] ladicius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Looks like an overly complicated way to indicate which videos not to watch.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 2 years ago

You already can see the view count unless your client is broken (looking at you, NewPipe)

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