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Five Reasons Why YouTube is not Social Media: TheTechBoy Unpopular Opinion:

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Hello, this is TheTechBoy with an Unpopular Opinion. YouTube is not social media. I have five points about why and will explain each point fully.   Source: unsplash.com/@christianw Comments under Videos are Text Only and Do Not Contain Images. In social networks, you can add more to comments than text and an emoticon. This is because social media is designed to connect people with each other, not to give feedback and metrics on a video.    YouTube is video/audio only. (Not including community posts. We will get to that.) Social media allows users to post images, live locations, and other non-videos.   Technically you could post an image to a YouTube video, and play some audio behind it, (or no audio) but that is not the same as posting an image to Instagram.    Monetization is Easier   TickTock monetization requires a user to have be at least eighteen years old, have 10,000 followers, have 1,000 views on videos in thirty days, and ...