Re:YouTube as Storage
by weird-eye-issue on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:58PM
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> Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually.
Such a weird strawman argument that you are making up. You've over thought this so much that you are missing the forest from the trees
Re:YouTube as Storage
by whycombigator on Saturday February 14, 2026 @08:02PM
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Video sensors are continuously getting cheaper, better and more more prevalent over time. The trend is towards capturing all angles of everything, everywhere, at increasingly higher resolutions.
For example, if in year N youtube has f(N) new video. Let assume f(N) = cN^2. It's a crazy rate of growth. It's far better than the real world Youtube, which grew rather linearly.
But the rate of "videos that are older than 5 years" is still faster than that, because it would be cubic instead of quadratic. Unless the it's really exponential (it isn't), "videos that are older than 5 years" will always surpass "new videos this year" eventually.