The guy who posted the first YouTube video left a weird message in the description. This video was posted in 2005 but it was updated just a few weeks ago.

youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw

@josh >Implying popularity and quality have any correlation at all
For example, YouTube.

@Zerglingman @josh
"Quality" is a subjective term. Something that is popular/liked IS of "quality" for the people that viewed & rated it, by an arbitrary criteria of "quality" that might or might not match your arbitrary criteria of "quality".
There is absolutely a correlation between something being popular and it matching the arbitrary criteria of "quality" for as many people as possible.
You might not like it, cause you have other arbitrary criteria, but you're only one person. Just because you're the odd man out, doesn't mean the correlation doesn't exist.

@alyx @josh This is what peak content performance looks like.

Also that's a hot load of bullshit. 👌