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There's another big factor at play: it's become increasingly easier to film yourself in combat and now encouraged by leadership for propaganda reasons. I've be
by dopeboy 3y ago
There's another big factor at play: it's become increasingly easier to film yourself in combat and now encouraged by leadership for propaganda reasons.
I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years; it has exploded in popularity because like a lot of things in life, war is now recorded and disseminated wide. The ukraine war, specifically with drones outfitted with explosives, has shown this. GoPros seem almost standard for combat troops.
I have to imagine Israelis are learning about the conflict in realtime partly through the footage Hamas is releasing. The fact that footage is so unprecedented (fighters air gliding in, a Hamas reporter reporting from inside Israel) probably adds to the demand for this content.
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoThat subreddit disproportionately censors and removes videos from the other sides. Avoid it unless you enjoy Kool aid
- pixl97 3y agoThen visit other subreddits that don't. There are plenty of them.
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- tennen 3y ago[flagged]
- pixl97 3y agoI would say there has always been demand for war footage. The difference is now the actual footage is not filtered by governments, propaganda firms, and typical news media sensibilities. The internet is mostly everywhere, and seemingly everyone has some kind of device capable of filming high definition footage. Even if it's not encouraged, it's still going to be very, very difficult to stop unless you turn off parts of the global internet to your (nations) users. Add to this that war is becoming heavily drone based, via both in purpose built weapons and improvised devices that have recording capability built in. War is not something that is far away, but something that is right now on the device you're carrying.
- dopeboy 3y agoGreat point. No intermediary to filter which means this content gets mass dumped on TG, reddit, etc.
- whatshisface 3y agoAll major platforms are heavily moderated.
- Yoric 3y agoIt's a good observation. However, we need to keep in mind that just because it's not filtered by propaganda agents at the source doesn't mean that it cannot very easily be turned into propaganda. And that's even without counting the relative ease of manufacturing images (with or without AI).
- lawgimenez 3y agor/combatfootage mods are very strained right now
- PicassoCTs 3y agoCant wait for the first "attention" enhancing ai trained on go pro footage. Highlighting enemy combatants and mines, long before you see them.. Needs ar glasses though. The grass is swaying, not in waves with the wind, here, here and here.
- aziaziazi 3y ago> I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years For what reason do you do that ?
- IAmGraydon 3y ago>I've been going to r/combatfootage everyday for the past ~3 years There's few activities I can think of that are worse for your mental health. Consider taking a break from the fear/gore porn.