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"And black creators often did not get the same chance at success that their mainstream counterparts did, leading to some black creators filing lawsuits against

"And black creators often did not get the same chance at success that their mainstream counterparts did, leading to some black creators filing lawsuits against YouTube. Despite YouTube's good intentions, systemic biases in how non-black users treated black creators, as well as the economic realities of Black people only representing 10% of the U.S. audience, have led to YouTube never doing quite enough to address this." Could you tell more about it? Not American here.

bluedino 5y ago
Non-black viewers are less likely to watch videos with black people in them.
- Perstone 5y ago
  Is that because they are black though? Without asking those people why they watched something else you are just making the assumption it was to do with their skin colour and not anything to do with the content itself. e.g. I don't watch a lot of content with women on Youtube. Not because I have anything against women. It because the subjects I am interested in, isn't covered typically by women.
  - crooked-v 5y ago
    > Is that because they are black though? Bluntly, yes. A lot of people in the U.S. are implicitly or explicitly racist. You can see this in statistics, such as 'black-sounding' resumes consistently getting less callbacks than 'white-sounding' resumes [1]. [1]: http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%20R2%20Accepted.pdf http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...
    - illuminati1911 5y ago
      This however has nothing to do with watching ”black content” on youtube etc. Can you prove that in this particular case that is the reason? Actually the fact that you assume this is racist itself. I’m white non-american and most of the content I watch is created by white creators. This is though because of most of the quality content is created by white creators which is because most high income countries with opportunities are ”white”. This leads to majority of quality content being ”white”.
    - Perstone 5y ago
      After skimming that report. They talks about "whitening" names. I know for a fact that a lot of my friends from Hong Kong would have a "English" name to make it easy for English people to pronounce their names. Also the whole "whitening" (Whatever that means) of a CV/Resume sounds like something that is completely subjective. Sorry but the different in applications could be again explained by something else e.g. simply being able to remember the name. Racism is claimed for every disparity now between racial groups. While I doubt that it can a factor, I doubt it is the singular cause. Also this says nothing about Youtube views.
- emerged 5y ago
  Which is made worse and worse by this type of tech which explicitly says such content is for black people.
- ptr2voidStar 5y ago
  Not sure why this was voted down (not entirely surprised though). Perhaps an uncomfortable truth? That said, it would have been useful, if you provided a few (of the numerous) citations supporting your statement.

bluedino 5y ago

Non-black viewers are less likely to watch videos with black people in them.

Perstone 5y ago
Is that because they are black though? Without asking those people why they watched something else you are just making the assumption it was to do with their skin colour and not anything to do with the content itself. e.g. I don't watch a lot of content with women on Youtube. Not because I have anything against women. It because the subjects I am interested in, isn't covered typically by women.
- crooked-v 5y ago
  > Is that because they are black though? Bluntly, yes. A lot of people in the U.S. are implicitly or explicitly racist. You can see this in statistics, such as 'black-sounding' resumes consistently getting less callbacks than 'white-sounding' resumes [1]. [1]: http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%20R2%20Accepted.pdf http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...
  - illuminati1911 5y ago
    This however has nothing to do with watching ”black content” on youtube etc. Can you prove that in this particular case that is the reason? Actually the fact that you assume this is racist itself. I’m white non-american and most of the content I watch is created by white creators. This is though because of most of the quality content is created by white creators which is because most high income countries with opportunities are ”white”. This leads to majority of quality content being ”white”.
  - Perstone 5y ago
    After skimming that report. They talks about "whitening" names. I know for a fact that a lot of my friends from Hong Kong would have a "English" name to make it easy for English people to pronounce their names. Also the whole "whitening" (Whatever that means) of a CV/Resume sounds like something that is completely subjective. Sorry but the different in applications could be again explained by something else e.g. simply being able to remember the name. Racism is claimed for every disparity now between racial groups. While I doubt that it can a factor, I doubt it is the singular cause. Also this says nothing about Youtube views.
emerged 5y ago
Which is made worse and worse by this type of tech which explicitly says such content is for black people.
ptr2voidStar 5y ago
Not sure why this was voted down (not entirely surprised though). Perhaps an uncomfortable truth? That said, it would have been useful, if you provided a few (of the numerous) citations supporting your statement.