YouTube (MDTTV's Future)

YouTube is the most popular video sharing site as of 2025. It is launched in 2005 as a dating website, but not long after the launch it became a video sharing site.
== Future ==
Until mid 2020s, the CEO of YouTube keeps making updates to the site which virtually many people hate it. After the disaster that has happened, Susan Wojcicki was fired for this, and this led to Neal Mohan becoming the CEO in 2023, but despite this, YouTube tried to prevent Adblockers which caused a lot of controversy, with the change being reverted in May 2026 immediately after Neal Mohan was overthrown. In 2029, the new design started rolling out to people, and is designed fairly so that everyone liked it. They decided to introduce more customization options and all users have the ability to use "Audio Tracks". The strike systems are revamped, for example, your channel will be terminated at 5 strikes.
In 2030s, the exponential popularity of YouTube outnumbers the popularity of TikTok. As of 2035, the most popular channel is MrBeast with 1.2 billion subs.
== Controversies ==
=== Anti-ad block controversy ===
In 2023, due to the extreme popularity of ad blockers, YouTube started cracking down on ad blockers by warning ad block customers that the video player will be blocked after 3 videos and that ad blockers violate YouTube's policy. This decision is known to be highly controversial and frustrated many ad block customers around the world, including those from 3rd-world countries where it's expensive to pay for YouTube Premium. It also led to ad blocker developers making updates that slip through the strict ad-block policy, such as uBlock, AdGuard, and more.
By the following year, in 2024, YouTube also went farther by introducing long loading times to ad-block customers or putting ads inside the server, meaning that ad blockers would fail to bypass the ads. The strategy was effective on most browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Arc, and many more. Adding fuel to the controversy is the inappropriate and scam adverts slipping through YouTube's content policy, which are supposedly not allowed, combined with Google and YouTube's negligence of blocking those ads, causing massive outrage in the internet. Google also took another step farther by discontinuing all Manifest V2 extensions, including most ad blockers, only adds more outrage. By this point, people began real-world protests about YouTube's situation, particularly in California, Denmark, Singapore, and Brazil.
In 2025, YouTube strengthens their policy even more by discouraging ad-block apps on almost every platorm, from PCs to phones and tablets. As the inappropriate and scam ads negligence situation grows more and more intense, protests about YouTube spread worldwide, causing the US and EU governments to sue YouTube from mismanagement and ad-block detection. The lawsuits also caused the rise of many new alternatives of YouTube, such as Clipfinity, Galaxius, oneVid, and LuxClips and existing ones such as Nebula Reonix (owned by Nebula), Odysee, and TikTok.
As 2026 came to start, thousands of people stormed the YouTube headquarters in San Bruno and Neal Mohan was overthrown, alongside a dozen employees. The situation was out of control and YouTube, now with its new CEO, Josh Lughton, decided to allow ad blockers again. After the controversy, YouTube was severely damaged with 36% less popularity than before 2023. Eventually, YouTube's popularity would recover in the 2030s and 2040s with new features and the return of the public dislike count.
=== Removal of the dislike count ===
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