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I noticed on some large reddit subs somebody will post something like: "bruh, I found this thing in game" with a relevant picture. Gets like 5K upvotes. Seems fake or all the people there are just stupid.
Also, the TDS on reddit is unreal. Waiting for an announcement of Reddit CEO denying election interference or something. Just like what lizard boy just admitted to.
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TIMING: https://youtube.com/watch/...
I asked my friend how shock value came up (cuz I don't even remember how I would've stumbled upon such a concept)... it's cuz I was complaining about not having anywhere to hang out and how the Internet is full of unironic Nazis/racial slur people everywhere and that's the extent of their conversing ability which is boring to me. he said it was shock value, not knowing that no, there are LITERAL communities of nazis. like literally people DM me memes of disappointed Hitler as a form of self expression. their whole identity is Nazis memes. they are Nazis. not for shock. they are Nazis (and somehow it's always autistic people with weird social issues but anyway) -
@jestdotty there are whole buildings full of people hired (sometimes working in military bases) to convince people of extremist groups. The propaganda is off the charts.
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@Demolishun oh yeah. there was this weird guy who hung around, he was older. he made "meme videos" that his followers would post of him that were kind of funny. he had this whole macho thing going
I tended to pull dudes easy so this guy messaged me and wanted me to "go into business" with him. he wanted to make a webcam website to make money off it. I said sure, thinking he was citing that he wanted a web developer. nope. he thought I'd be a cam girl and lure dudes in. I told him I won't be that but I can code it. dude never messaged me again
he would argue with people about historical facts about the Nazis and all his followers thought he was a "real sociopathic man" or something
he was Canadian
100% he was a secret agent. no fucking way. he didn't have a personality past his "movement" and everything he did was pure business. he just set up a persona to convert people into being Nazis. he whined about things like, "when I dump girls they stop being Nazis =[" lmao 4d psy-ops -
Yeah, I also don't get notifications of subscriptions and rather random stuff. They want you to explore more I guess just like Spotify. I don't have an idea why they should do this, if you have many subscriptions, you'll already watch alot (ads). Why forcing different content. Maybe you ignored a preferred channel to long, that's why it doesn't show?
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I keep blocking ads there and they keep trying to get me to watch them, it’s pretty funny. I would actually pay for their service if they weren’t owned by Google.
The sadist in me rejoices in knowing that they use millions on fighting against ad blockers, and yet it is a fight that they can never win. -
@ars1 I don't pay for it because it lacks decent payment methods. How rich can you be to ignore a payment method of a country. We don't do them credit cards here. We do them debit
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@retoor I do pay for Google cloud using android play credit tho. Not sure if that can be used for YouTube red or what's the name
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@retoor same for GPT. Only creditcard. Most people here don't have one or don't want to use it (only for on vacation and stuff). But the free service of GPT is so good, I will not pay for it. I wonder who does. I also don't see differences between 3.5 of 4
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Yeah. I used to love YouTube, I even subscribed to premium for a whole of 2-3 years because there was still content I liked on there... but the way they display videos and the mediocre content that shows when you search or log on is an instant turn-off. Undistinguished, mainstream garbage. Bloated. Illusion of variety. The channels that show up feel like they generically generated their videos no matter how esoteric your search topic is. Sad, really.
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
there is no way YouTube isn't dead as a product
last night I had to switch from matrix voice chat to discord voice chat to talk to somebody (because their phone suddenly doesn't do matrix well, keeps cutting out their mic if their screen is turned off or they switch to a different app wtf). they misinterpreted something I said as talking about "shock value". I think that's a demeaning term that doesn't capture why "bad" content is good. now I'm just chilling trying not to workaholic and first recommendation on YouTube I have is about "what happened to shock value websites". oh I'm sure that's a coincidence
this has been happening increasingly and I fucking hate it. it keeps recommending videos that have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm watching or have ever watched or would even be in the interest of in the past, but I mention it somewhere and it creepily suggests the content to me, always with videos claiming to have 2-3 million views. bullshit. I tried some of these and there's no way anybody cares about this content in such numbers. it's so lukewarm and dumb. and how the hell do they have "opinion" vlogs about every topic? since when did that become the #1 type of content on YouTube? cuz it's 50% of my recommendations and I've never given a shit
I have like 500 subscriptions on YouTube. I've had an account a long time. a lot of them are old channels that stopped being active as YouTube evolved, which I think was a shame. a lot of them had to do with ad revenue or YouTube algorithm just not suggesting their content to new people. they were wholesome, honest channels with really good content I think -- really good game analysis, compilations of unique or weird viral content and the guy was just a funny dude in his basement, etc. but fair I guess. shame, but fair
Then there was the quiet era, where your front page just didn't suggest the good channels and just the stupid channels. it didn't suggest your subscriptions but in your interest area or something. what's the point of subscriptions if you're not showing me them? this is also about the time if I left a comment on a video I ceased receiving replies so I assume I was shadow banned. I have not received a single reply in years now, even on small channels. some content creators noticed if they post on their own channels and accidentally logged out and looked for their comment their own comments don't show up. just weird annoying nonsense that's inappropriate for them to be doing. bruh, please
and then the next wave came, it wasn't just YouTube won't recommend your channel, in the COVID era what came was if you mentioned something then channels with previously millions of views, still currently millions of subscribers, suddenly went down to 5k-50k views per video. bitch please, you expect anyone to believe this nonsense?
then they fucked up the search. I KNOW videos exist and I can't find them. I type in half the video's title, you can't find it. thankfully if you type in every single word exactly you can still find them. bruh that's too much. also just search plain doesn't work. if I'm looking for a specific topic I get 5-10 max videos on that topic and the rest are irrelevant recommendations. this is entirely ridiculous. there's videos I KNOW exist on YouTube and nobody gave a shit about them, like 5 view Benny benassi music clips with a scene from a video game. I can't even meme anymore
this morning a friend on discord sent me a... weird clip, of like an anime skit. problem? well discord embeds YouTube videos. I pressed play. I get... an ad. lol what. I browse away and back to the video. try again. ad. yeah I'm not playing this. I have to refresh the page 20-30 times sometimes just until the ads stop fucking up every time my adblocker ceases working (and then I have to go update it again lol -- by going to the developer page for the ad block because it was banned from the app store so you can't auto update it and have to manually update it every time)
my friend links me a discord plugin to... remove ads... from YouTube embeds... bruh
I used to mod discord but it's annoying, because every time discord updates you have to go re-apply the hack to be able to mod your discord
I think we should just plain move away from YouTube. during COVID era a lot of people got banned in subreddits on reddit. I noticed when you get banned, the subreddit still has you listed as a subscriber. the r/Canada subreddit for example has 3 million subscribers but the activity of a subreddit that's maybe 1k people. increasingly subreddits just became ghost towns after that like that. reddit is a dead website, with fake numbers. I think YouTube is now a dead website, with fake numbers. no fucking way stupid lukewarm opinion videos with absolutely nothing to add are getting 2-3 million views and people are just clamouring for these takes they didn't ask for
also stop listening in on my private conversations. fucking disgusting. idc if an AI is transcribing. ew.
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