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Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway by egypturnash on Friday December 25, 2020 @02:41PM (#25538517)
> Video making switched from animation to people filming themselves talking to the camera.

Youtube was completely built around Flash, the FLV format hit a sweet spot between "not looking like trash" and "not needing more bandwidth than the average user had" that else had before. I'm pretty sure we would be seeing a shit-ton of people filming themselves talking to the camera even if Flash was still a going concern - animation is a ton of work.

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Re:The impact of Apple Silicon Macs on Broadway by sitkack on Friday December 25, 2020 @06:02PM (#25539784)
> Youtube was completely built around Flash

Youtube exists because of Flash. They were are the right time and place to have a flash object sitting on a webpage that could play video in a reasonably cross platform way.

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