• Chromecast 2013-2024 (12-ish years)

  • Google's only known TV streaming hardware and service.

• Stadia 2019-2022 (4-ish years)

  • Google's only known Videogame streaming service.

• YT Originals 2016-2022 (7-ish years)

  • Google's first official leap into content creation for their streaming service.

• Hangouts 2013-2022 (10-ish years)

  • Google's first text, voice, video communication service.

YouTube is the basis for much of Google's portfolio and a steady moneymaker, not an upstart liek those.

You must be joking. Why is YouTube a steady moneymaker? Is it perhaps the advertisements? So wouldn't that make Google ads be the "basis for much of Google's portfolio"?

What threatens the viability of an advertising company? When viewers aren't viewing ads.

YouTube is not an investment for Google. YouTube is a liability. Huge amounts of upkeep, required staff on hand. FUCKIN LAWYERS. At best YouTube is a vehicle they control to increase ad revenue.

The real money maker? Selling your personal data to other advertising networks.

Now that Khan is in the FCC and Harris is likely to win the White House, and it might be possible we have a Blue House & Senate. With the cherry on top, the anti-trust suit.

That's right, the fuckin Google Mafia Monopoly!

They're hedging their bets on the next four to five years being terrible for them and are tying to get rid of as much weight as they can. Why? Because nobody uses Google to search for content on YouTube, and if they have to split YouTube off the main company, Alphabet, will lose so much fucking money the fed couldn't print it fast enough to bail their ass out of the overextended hole they are precariously straddled over.

Google will need to buy then what they get now for free. And you know who hates Alphabet more then their competition? YouTube.

YouTube will make Alphabet pay out the nose for any ad time, so it's easier to quietly write it off now and kill it later before it becomes a threat.