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Why Hank Green can’t quit YouTube for TikTok

Decoder with Nilay Patel

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You're the Broadest Brush, Right?

i thinkha: Sometimes youtube love science. Other times it's like we're all everyone dressed up like elsa and stab elmo in the heart. Like, just weird things happen on youtube. That suddenly gather views, and nobody yo can lik predict it or understand it. Even the people inside of youtube are often surprised at what the algorithm has decd it is trending to day. It feels like you need to figure out how to disentangle yourself from the algr them to some extent. But if youtube doesn't know how to find the people who will like your content, that's a failure of youtube. And then when things like amber heard johnny dap happen, the

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