I like watching in-depth documentaries on YouTube about many diverse topics: technology, philosophy, history, film, you name it. I’m actually more likely to watch a half an hour or an hour video that goes into details about a topic than short-form content that feels more like reading a headline. Mind that sometimes some creators manage to publish interesting stuff under the ten minutes mark, but those are the minority in my feed and, when they do so, they’re probably just updating on some news relevant to a topic (e.g., a channel like Low Level). The platform, however, is making it increasingly difficult to produce such long-form content, it promotes increasingly lower quality content meant for people to react to, and the whole thing feels worse and worse even from a functionality perspective. YouTube knows this, though, and they know they’re the only serious player in video hosting and streaming service. They don’t care. So, some weeks ago I started think about an internet after YouTube: What would that look like?