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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.


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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't, running YouTube is expensive, and Google became a trillion dollar company mainly from ad revenue, it has to be making bank for them to not have killed YouTube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

YouTube was intentionally run at a loss for years in order to quell potential competition and set up a monopoly. Now, they got all the content on their platform and that won't change for a while, so they can do whatever they want. It was a marketing strategy, not magnanimity.

A similar strategy was led by HP. They make no money from printers, but once you buy one, you are very likely to also buy their ink which is sold with a ridiculous profit margin, so that the loss of revenue from printers doesn't matter in the slightest. It's called "loss leading".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not talking about them taking loss in earlier years (that aside, even if they tried to run it for free in the current year the number of users is vastly different)

Video streaming is expensive in general, especially when it's not a fixed set of videos (like other streaming services)