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Mr Beast and similar viral videos are hardly the outliers given that their traffic absolutely dwarfs the best educational videos. There is a lot of useful and interesting content on Youtube, but that's very much a niche use. The vast majority of watched hours are on content much closer to Mr Beast than learning how to code or a diy woodworking project.


The value isn't determined by watched hours.

No other streaming platform offers a video catalog that covers nearly all aspects of human activities.

This has never existed in all of humanity.




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