What changes will occur with You Tube or with viewers' habits over time? It is quite a guessing game. As a viewer I am turning off channels that offer heavily accented English. Perhaps vaunted AI technology will someday do a better job of translating heavily accented jabbering into normal American speech.
It is easy to be a critic of You Tube screw-ups, and I certainly do my share of criticizing. But today let's praise a You Tube channel. Anybody who has been to an animal shelter to adopt a dog knows how important it is for the dog to audition well. Some dogs are terrible at auditioning. They are fearful and hide at the back of their pen and do not even make eye contact or wag their tail when a prospective customer approaches. What happens to dogs like that? Don't ask!
That is why I love the approach of Rocky Kanaka in his channel "Sitting With Dogs." He deliberately chooses the poor auditioners and ever so gradually gets them out of their shell. He never forces himself on them. Many times the dog eventually responds, and gets a happy ending.
I am having touchpad problems on my laptop right now. Later.
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