In a year of crisis points for influencers, YouTube also tried to do some good

2018 was not what you would call a great year for the world’s largest video platform, nor for some of the influencers who use it to make a living. 

Case in point: the Logan Paul incident. The YouTube star caused widespread anger when he uploaded a video that included footage of a body of person who died of suicide in the Aokigahara forrest in Japan to his – at the time – 15 million subscribers, most of whom are tweens. 

This incident, which only hurt Paul in the immediate term (he now has over 18 million subscribers) highlighted some fundamental challenges facing YouTube; managing user-generated content on a platform that prides itself as democratic, filtering content to young users and relying too much on their algorithms alone to police, monitor, and push content.  Read more…

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