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0 pointssillysaurus311y ago0 comments

By that line of reasoning, 15.75 years from now there will be a viewcount greater than 8 billion.

... and now I realize you may be correct, and that it's probably inevitable that a viewcount will not only exceed the total number of people alive, but will double or even quadruple it. Our total population is actually about 100 billion, but only ~7% of us are still alive.

The shadows of the dead will be forever enshrined as YouTube view counts. Our shadows.

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trothamel11y ago· 1 in thread

YouTube is slightly under 10 years old. It's interesting how we're willing to project it forward into the far future. Not that i think that's wrong or anything - it's just that it's gone from nothing to essential in a fraction of a human lifetime.

"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten." - Bill Gates

rattray11y ago

That's a great quote, thanks for sharing

Retra11y ago

With playlists and whatnot, you can easily watch a video numerous times, so the max could very easily exceed any population size.

mudge11y ago

Wow, shit

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