Sublime

When it comes to the data used to make these predictions—the information silently siphoned off us by companies trading in what the scholar Shoshana Zuboff calls “behavioral futures”—we

Brach’s presence is disarming. If you search for her on YouTube, you’ll find hours of footage

There’s no evidence anyone warned her about a different strain these goals placed on YouTube, how prioritizing engagement and spreading commercial funds as widely as possible paved the way for the trainwrecks to come.

The value of pornographic artifacts in Web 2.0 sites like XTube is thereby determined by factors not wholly tied to monetization.

The Internet site is not necessarily designed to perpetuate a long-term relationship; it is designed to make you click, now. Quality of information and accuracy are no longer as important as sparkle.

Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import. It’s also a personal matter, because when we reclaim the stories that surround female celebrities, stories surrounding ordinary women are reclaimed, too.

To certain YouTubers gutted from the shifting algorithm, widening the payouts felt rather unfair. But to YouTube, which always looked at data in the aggregate, it looked like spreading wealth around.