Not my meme/remake but I have permission from author to publish it here :blobcatjoy: And it was the same person who several years ago told me in good cyberpunk story #corporations should be like Lovecraftian deities - mysterious, hard to understand, powerful and impossible to defeat by mortals (not optimistic view of course... especially if reality is close to this)
[ And I didn't play Cthulhu Saves The World (yet) :blobcat_amused: But played Universal Paperclips in the past and it's constant picture in my head when I read about Big Tech now. ]
My real worry with Google's voyage into enshittification (thanks to Cory Doctorow @pluralistic the term) is YouTube.
Through YT, for the past 15 years, the world has basically entrusted Google to be the custodian of pretty much our entire global video archive.
There's countless hours of archived footage — news reports, political speeches, historical events, documentaries, indie films, academic lectures, conference presentations, rare recordings, concert footage, obscure music — where the best or only copy is now held by Google through YouTube.
So what happens if maintaining that archival footage becomes unprofitable?