Also videos from gender criticals. It’s so incredibly upsetting. One thing I’ve noticed is that there is simultaneously a claim that we are being lied to, and yet when trans content creators talk about their surgery complications it’s used as ammunition against us and our care. Which is it? I have always found that trans creators are fully open about the risks and complications that can happen from surgery and yet I still desperately yearn to have it even though I know recovery is going to suck. I have to hear this GC rhetoric from my parents and it breaks my heart. I just want to live my life as the woman I was always meant to be. To grow old and die as a woman. To finally have a chance at happiness. Why do we have to justify our existence? Why can’t they just leave us alone?
Video hosting is extremely expensive, and even other well-funded companies have folded trying to replicate YouTube. It’s unfortunately not something that small scale cooperatives are likely to be able to fight back against.
There have been some impressive little tech demos of AI-powered image and sound compression, which could maybe fix the cost problem, but AI-powered compression is just as cursed as it sounds.