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Bad YouTuber has bad and evil opinions, what else is not new
TBH I wouldn't expect any YouTuber or streamer to have good opinions or be a good person, but I'm not sure if that's reasonable or whether I'm just prejudiced against things I don't like or understand
@vaporeon_ wow, this hurts
@The_T Oh
Sorry, I forgot you do streaming
@The_T Which probably hurts in a different way... Sorry :(
@The_T I was more thinking of professional streamers where it's their main job
@vaporeon_ @The_T if you did understand Professional Content Creation and Streaming you would continue to distrust most of them, definitely the explicitly political ones
@vaporeon_ @The_T i have complex feelings about this. you can’t, say, get away with saying “i don’t condemn hamas”, but making ostensibly pro-palestine videos has objectively done well with the algorithm after october 7 and people have made decent money doing that. i’m not really sure what to make of things like that but i think youtube is aware of the fact that progressive content is a sizable niche and that they can purrofit off of it
@aescling @vaporeon_ yeah.
the trouble for me is, I just want to play video games and talk about them, and when I can't think of things to say about the game, I talk about my life and, rarely, current events/politics if I have something to say.
Which isn't often.
@aescling @vaporeon_ @The_T actually FD signifier said he doesn't condemn hamas in his recent video about Palestine
@wallhackio @aescling @vaporeon_ who the hell is Final Destination signifier
@The_T @aescling @vaporeon_ another leftist youtuber man (he's actually really good tho)
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ @The_T second channel where he does not care about getting demonetized
@aescling @vaporeon_ yeah, the issue really is that creating "that kind" of content is more lucrative, gets more attention and followers, than doing the same stuff while being left-wing. The few successful left-wing creators create content that is exclusively "about" left-wing, not "left-wing and video games", and also they release like one video every 6 months.
@vaporeon_ @The_T there is a pseudopolitics in the age of social media where the people purroducing content often understand it’s all just a purrfurmance to get views, and that in purrticular, having content creators who purrfurn opposing politics is extremely good fur business; there is an extremely active incentive to not actually change anything (and in fact to constantly boost the purrofile of people expurressing horrific views in responding to and debunking them). but the trap fur the viewer, and some naive creators, is to completely fail to understand that it’s all theatre. the audience definitely is under the illusion that this is all politics somehow, that these debunkings and debates and Takes all Matter somehow; less cynical creators also believe this
@aescling @vaporeon_ the tldr is don't watch anyone on YouTube who has a checkmark
@vaporeon_ @The_T this isn’t exactly new, either; talk radio and loud cable news purrograms have the same incentives and work in a similar way
@aescling @The_T Thanks! If you're wondering, this whole post was prompted by various people commenting on [political YouTuber has awful opinions]. Of course she does, that's her job! The Algorithm wouldn't promote a decent person with decent politics that go contrary to what the owners of YouTube etc. want!