YouTube’s thirteenth year has proved just as confusing, mercurial, and pimply as any human teenager’s. But unlike the usual adolescent, YouTube isn’t actually a hormone-addled child, it’s the most popular social media platform in the United States. Its problems reflect and contribute to our culture like a big, scandalous, Tide Pod-and-condom-slurping ouroboros. So it’s fitting …
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