YouTube appears to be cracking down on SRV3 subtitle files, disabling new uploads and deleting existing custom captions from major channels including Hololive, Dream.
Kronii_but_why.mp4
This is just intentionally making their platform worse, wow.
One of the many ways, yes. It’s a shame it’s probably not economically feasible or convenient for Cover to have their own streaming platform (peertube? 🤔)
Personally I think it would be economically feasible for them, probably not convenient to switch because they would lose a lot of visibility, but having a mirror site (and, especially, a mirror place to superchat dodging Youtube’s cut) would be a genius move with their current market share, imo.
It depends where the majority of revenue for them comes from, superchats or YTads, honestly I don’t know. If it’s ads, it wouldn’t be a good idea to abandon YouTube (then again, I wouldn’t mind ads on ‘CoverTube’ if they weren’t too many)
I heavily doubt it’s ads, channels whose majority of the audience mainly watches livestreams usually get very little from them. And they make a TON of money from superchats (and membership!) compared to the average streamer, so I’d assume the divide is even bigger.
The main reason why abandoning Youtube as a whole might be detrimental is for the visibility. You get a lot less new users if you spin a new platform, it’s a move you can afford to make only if you know your current audience is enough to be self-sustainable.
My guess is they want to replace all the subtitles with their own shitty AI generated subtitles.
Really sucks that this is happening.
I have a sizeable chunk of VTuber MVs archived with subtitles on Patchwork Archive ( example)Ragtag Archive also archives videos w/ subtitles, though they focus more on general content and from larger VTubers.
