Weekly Scroll: YouTube Communism
Weird brand deals, viewer redistribution, and some very good items
Welcome to a bonus edition of the Weekly Scroll! This weekend we’ll be talking about YouTube’s redistribution of views, a very suspicious influencer deal, a streamer actually doing something positive, a content creator hitting movie theaters (and winning!), and an excellent high school cafeteria game.
YouTube Communism
There’s an interesting story that’s been developing on YouTube, and while it’s been a topic of discussion amongst YouTubers I’m not sure any of the other social-media-analysis-commentariat have really clocked it yet.1 YouTube, to put things bluntly, seems to have embraced view count redistribution.
