YouTube didn't even think these creators were commercial viable. That was part of a structural problem where there really wasn't an advocate for creators like we think up today. Hank Green, if you add on Hank Green started VidCon, that was a whole community. YouTube was sort of there, but it wasn't present for a long time in these conversations.

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