Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people

Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by nablaone on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:43AM (#28087828)

"And black creators often did not get the same chance at success that their mainstream counterparts did, leading to some black creators filing lawsuits against YouTube. Despite YouTube's good intentions, systemic biases in how non-black users treated black creators, as well as the economic realities of Black people only representing 10% of the U.S. audience, have led to YouTube never doing quite enough to address this."

Could you tell more about it? Not American here.

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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by bluedino on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:39AM (#28088658)

Non-black viewers are less likely to watch videos with black people in them.

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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by Perstone on Friday August 06, 2021 @11:52AM (#28088866)

Is that because they are black though? Without asking those people why they watched something else you are just making the assumption it was to do with their skin colour and not anything to do with the content itself.

e.g. I don't watch a lot of content with women on Youtube. Not because I have anything against women. It because the subjects I am interested in, isn't covered typically by women.

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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by crooked-v on Friday August 06, 2021 @03:47PM (#28091941)

> Is that because they are black though?

Bluntly, yes. A lot of people in the U.S. are implicitly or explicitly racist. You can see this in statistics, such as 'black-sounding' resumes consistently getting less callbacks than 'white-sounding' resumes [1].

[1]: http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/facbios/file/Whitening%20MS%...

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Re:Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people by ptr2voidStar on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:58PM (#28104100)

Not sure why this was voted down (not entirely surprised though).

Perhaps an uncomfortable truth? That said, it would have been useful, if you provided a few (of the numerous) citations supporting your statement.

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