YouTube is constantly reencoding videos to save space at the expense of older content looking like mud, so arguably even they're having their struggles.

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bombcar 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We all know the "nobody has watched this video in ten years, login at least once or it'll be yeeted" email is coming, someday.

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computably an hour ago | parent [-]

YT would have to start declining in growth pretty substantially for that to be the case. All the 360p video from 2010-2015 probably doesn't take up even 1% of the storage new videos added in 2025.

	▲	bombcar 8 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		True, it's more likely to be aimed at stemming the tide of 4k video that nobody watches - but luckily they're worth more than Disney right now so we don't have to confront that ... yet.

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UltraSane 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

YouTube shorts are incredibly highly compressed.