GoKawiilMay 4, 2026 YouTube, your feeds are broken Mark Kennedy CEO and Founder
In case you haven't caught on yet, some of us will just never be interested in being manipulated by those brain-rotting, never-ending homepage feeds you love shoving in our faces the moment we log in.
We would rather use the feeds you offer for each of your channels. You know, the ones you're hiding? The feeds we can subscribe to in our own feed reader to follow our favorite creators without having to be on your platform at all?
Well, your relationship with these feeds has gone from neglectful to borderline hostile, and we're tired of pretending otherwise.
Your feeds keep disappearing
Let's start with the fact that when using your feeds in a feed reader, they're unreliable. Users have been reporting for a while now that their feeds either go silent without warning or vanish altogether. No announcement, no error message, no explanation. Just... gone.
And sometimes they're out of commission for so long that people genuinely think you've just said "screw it" and axed them.
Is it a bug? Probably. Is a fix being prioritized? That's a harder question to answer. But when a platform your size lets something like this slide, it stops feeling like an oversight and starts feeling like a choice.
Hiding your feeds in plain sight
Another thing that annoys us: you make no effort to surface the link to these feeds. When visiting a YouTube channel, there's no link to follow it in a feed reader, no "add feed" button, nothing.
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