A possible concise summary is:
The speaker analyzes the problem of fake news and clickbait in the media, and how they manipulate people's emotions and actions. He traces the history of yellow journalism and explains how news outlets are driven by advertising revenue rather than factual reporting. He also discusses how YouTube and other online platforms are affected by this issue, and what viewers can do to be more informed and critical consumers of information. He recommends a book called Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday, and promotes his other video on game theory.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise was bought by Disney.
2. A Megan spin-off series is coming for The Walking Dead.
3. A Marvel vs. DC movie was planned for 2022.
4. A former reality TV host was elected president.
5. Clickbait has been around since the mid-1800s, when newspapers would hire people to shout headlines to get people to buy papers.
6. Yellow journalism emerged in the late 1800s, characterized by badly researched, sensationalized, and often false news stories.
7. The New York Tribune and San Francisco Examiner were two of the most successful papers in the yellow journalism era.
8. These papers specialized in sleazy, exaggerated, and gory crime stories, as well as political scandals and corruption.
9. The New York Tribune became particularly successful due to its racist and anti-immigrant coverage.
10. News outlets have figured out that angry posts are more likely to be shared than other emotions.
11. A study of 200,000 Twitter users in China found that angry posts were 3 times more likely to be spread through shares or retweets than other emotions.
12. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, 76.1% of Google's income comes from its ad business.
13. A former executive from Google stated that the company is an advertising company with a bunch of hobbies creating products to place ads.
14. Newspapers have been dealing with the problem of fake news for a long time, and one solution has been to move to a subscription-based model.
15. YouTube has a subscription service called YouTube Red, which makes the site ad-free and allows creators to earn more money per view.
16. The system of trust between creators and subscribers on YouTube is based on subscribers supporting the channel and creators making content that subscribers trust and enjoy.
17. When YouTube changes its algorithm to reduce the visibility of certain videos, creators may resort to clickbait titles to get their videos seen.
18. The complaint about declining views on YouTube is not entirely YouTube's fault, but rather a complex issue that involves various factors.
19. The book "Trust Me, I'm Lying" by Ryan Holiday explains how the media really works and how to exploit it for one's own benefit.