TASVideos
Revert YouTube's tags to how the site previously had it. Or expand and improve over the previous tags.
https://github.com/TASVideos/tasvideos/blob/e17e21d8240d5fef498aa1cda210d25ecedad3ff/TASVideos.Core/Services/Youtube/YouTubeSync.cs
Current tags: TAS, TASVideos, Tool-Assisted, Video Game
Old tags (pre-2022): Glitches, Speedrun, TAS, TASVideos, Tool-Assisted, Tricks, Video Game, Walkthrough
There's also another issue where the tags are now weaker compared to the past with an example being between these two (for this example): Mouse Trap Hotel & Blue Kaizo.
The major difference is that Mouse Trap Hotel is tagged as "GB" and "Game Boy". However, Blue Kaizo is only classified as "gb".
This might work well in the other issue request I have about expanding names and can possibly make the tags less "dumb".
For instance using the same system games above as an example. Nintendo, Game Boy, GB. Or with how the site operates PlayStation as; Sony, PlayStation, PSX, PS.
The other way in auto expansion (if possible) is to read the tags given to a TAS so it can get the "glitches" as a YouTube tag when "Heavy glitch abuse" or when one of the "corrupts" tags are selected for instance and if a Playaround tag is given it can get "Tricks", "Playaround", "Shwocase".
Should we even invest time into YouTube tags anymore? YouTube itself has hidden tag configuration from uploader's view as much as possible.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/146402?hl=en
Tags can be useful if the content of your video is commonly misspelled. Otherwise, tags play a minimal role in your video's discovery.
I'd say if YouTube, a company all about data collection, already tells us this data plays a minimal role and prevents users from providing it, then the only effort we should spend on this is for the removal of YouTube Tag support.
I mean I still personally believe it still has a use, and on the off-chance that Google changes things with how stuff works again. It's probably safer to not actually remove it.