That video explains that YouTube's algorithm works off Network Effects.
Which means that YouTube as a whole works off Network Effects. By explaining why Current Edition dominates RPG content on YouTube, our host also explains why Current Edition has always dominated Conventional Play.
He's not stupid. He did not do that by accident.
What he left out is that Wizards' plans for abandoning tabletop for vidya is also driven by Network Effects. Videogames as a medium have orders of magnitude greater network size, scale, and scope so its Network Effects are likewise orders of magnitude greater.
Which means that being The Only Game That Matters in videogames is far more important than being so in tabletop.
If you are a basic bitch MBA slaved to Line Go Up ideology (i.e. the C-Suite as Wizards and Hasbro as well as their boards), There Is No Alternative. You switch media as fast as you can because bigger Network means Line Go Up Further And Faster.
The Cargo will stop coming.
There is no succession path if you maintain course; you lot cannot do what Wizards did, and you don't even try. Either one of you changes into something that does, or all of you change into something that survives without it. What do you do?
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