Do you think consider YouTube social media?

There's no way YouTube isn't social media, unless one is trying to force distinctions where none exists

[quote]websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking[/quote]

YouTube fulfills this

not anymore

it used to be, but now its just commercial media

YouTube is like the motherboard of a social platform. So yes, to answer your question YouTube is very much social media. It is the basis on how one is started in the social media world. Then came all the others after Myspace and Facebook then Twitter and Instagram and tiktok and all the others that followed. Now is it just social media is all it's form.

It technically is with content and comments. But I think most people rarely use the comments and that makes it one sided. Is that still social? Still half so.

It's -absolutely- social media by any definition. Your personal definitions may or may not include it but language is about words having common meanings right.

In a sense, it is social media, because you have subscribers who become regulars, and you interact with them; that interaction creates social media.

It is social media. A horrible place that drives people into a spiral of madness, like all social media,

I think youtube is one of those gray areas. Which are my faves.

Its media thats social

Much of it is

Yes, it is definitely social media just by virtue of anyone being able to comment (when the poster enables comments on a post), and anyone being able to create a post as a video (with a text description)

And just as much misinformation gets spread on YouTube as does on exTwitter, Facebook, etc.

Never seen you on my channel !