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YouTube serves MSM on any search query I have for trendy topics. And they are one sided. Its propaganda at its finest

by diamondfist25 3y ago

aunty_helen 3y ago
I just want a cat and meme video platform not some “Breaking now” state sponsored information funnel :(
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  Have you heard of the saga of the puppy channel? A man had collected hundreds of hours of VHS tapes of cute pets and embarked on a mission to create a broadcast channel featuring no ads, just cute videos. Everyone turned him down, not interested, offended even at the notion that one would need a break from ad-mediated drama-laden television https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/act-one-24 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/a...
  - sircastor 3y ago
    My wife and I still occasionally break out into a song of "Puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppieeeeees!"
    - neilv 3y ago
      "Natalie Portman & Rashida Jones Speak Out Again" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo (I can't find the puppies one.)
  - neilv 3y ago
    For awhile, Reddit did pretty well with "cat pictures". The front page has been compromised for many years, but there's still corners like: https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/
    - masklinn 3y ago
      Sadly the reposting (and mislabelling, and potato-ing) has gotten absolutely insane across the board so it’s quite a bit less enjoyable than it used to.
  - kd5bjo 3y ago
    One of the local cable channels growing up was a fish channel-- Somebody shot a few hours of footage at a local aquarium[1] and they ran it constantly on loop with a soundtrack of classical music. [1] Maybe a pet fish store, actually
bryanlarsen 3y ago
I get a lot of Fox & Al Jazeera mixed in with the usual BBC, CNN et cetera. I wouldn't call that one sided.
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  They are all pro-state media, the other side would be anarchist media ;)
  - AraceliHarker 3y ago
    BBC is being chastised by Congress for not calling Hamas terrorists.
    - SllX 3y ago
      Not to defend the utility of anarchist media because I won’t, but in this case the BBC is a different state’s media.
    - hifycycyv 3y ago
      [dead]
- seanw444 3y ago
  Fox and CNN are two wings of the same bird. That I keep hearing people refer to Fox as the right-wing outlet tells me either "right-wingers" aren't caught up, or they are caught up, and the everyone else still thinks they care what Fox has to say. Not sure which.
  - bitsnbytes 3y ago
    The two party system is a farce. There is only one party and one media with opposing methodology to herd the masses into the end results the "ESTABLISHMENT" wants.
- wahnfrieden 3y ago
  One sided in that they’re state propaganda machines even if they represent different flavors of power
gjsman-1000 3y ago
YouTube is also under heavy pressure from the site formally known as X, and hasn't said anything about "that YouTuber girl who steals content with a pretty voice" even though her actions, by any objective standard, obviously violate YouTube's guidelines. This may partially be because YouTube had her featured at one of their events a few months ago and to cancel her for literally acting pedophilic (in another discovery from yesterday) would be a bad look...
- daft_pink 3y ago
  Sniperwolf?
MuffinFlavored 3y ago
Which side? Left, right?
- bitsnbytes 3y ago
  There is only one side but with different rhetoric
  - MuffinFlavored 3y ago
    Curious what you mean by this. I know it's a sensitive topic but... the people who are really "far left" or "far right" definitely aren't what I would call "on the same side with one another" unless you mean "pawns/positioned against each other by the media they seek out to consume/think the worst of each other/are ultra radical" Not sure what you might mean by "that's one side"

YouTube serves MSM on any search query I have for trendy topics. And they are one sided. Its propaganda at its finest

aunty_helen 3y ago

I just want a cat and meme video platform not some “Breaking now” state sponsored information funnel :(

jazzyjackson 3y ago
Have you heard of the saga of the puppy channel? A man had collected hundreds of hours of VHS tapes of cute pets and embarked on a mission to create a broadcast channel featuring no ads, just cute videos. Everyone turned him down, not interested, offended even at the notion that one would need a break from ad-mediated drama-laden television https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/act-one-24 https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/a...
- sircastor 3y ago
  My wife and I still occasionally break out into a song of "Puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppieeeeees!"
  - neilv 3y ago
    "Natalie Portman & Rashida Jones Speak Out Again" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo (I can't find the puppies one.)
- neilv 3y ago
  For awhile, Reddit did pretty well with "cat pictures". The front page has been compromised for many years, but there's still corners like: https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/
  - masklinn 3y ago
    Sadly the reposting (and mislabelling, and potato-ing) has gotten absolutely insane across the board so it’s quite a bit less enjoyable than it used to.
- kd5bjo 3y ago
  One of the local cable channels growing up was a fish channel-- Somebody shot a few hours of footage at a local aquarium[1] and they ran it constantly on loop with a soundtrack of classical music. [1] Maybe a pet fish store, actually

bryanlarsen 3y ago

I get a lot of Fox & Al Jazeera mixed in with the usual BBC, CNN et cetera. I wouldn't call that one sided.

jazzyjackson 3y ago
They are all pro-state media, the other side would be anarchist media ;)
- AraceliHarker 3y ago
  BBC is being chastised by Congress for not calling Hamas terrorists.
  - SllX 3y ago
    Not to defend the utility of anarchist media because I won’t, but in this case the BBC is a different state’s media.
  - hifycycyv 3y ago
    [dead]
seanw444 3y ago
Fox and CNN are two wings of the same bird. That I keep hearing people refer to Fox as the right-wing outlet tells me either "right-wingers" aren't caught up, or they are caught up, and the everyone else still thinks they care what Fox has to say. Not sure which.
- bitsnbytes 3y ago
  The two party system is a farce. There is only one party and one media with opposing methodology to herd the masses into the end results the "ESTABLISHMENT" wants.
wahnfrieden 3y ago
One sided in that they’re state propaganda machines even if they represent different flavors of power

gjsman-1000 3y ago

YouTube is also under heavy pressure from the site formally known as X, and hasn't said anything about "that YouTuber girl who steals content with a pretty voice" even though her actions, by any objective standard, obviously violate YouTube's guidelines. This may partially be because YouTube had her featured at one of their events a few months ago and to cancel her for literally acting pedophilic (in another discovery from yesterday) would be a bad look...

daft_pink 3y ago
Sniperwolf?

MuffinFlavored 3y ago

Which side? Left, right?

bitsnbytes 3y ago
There is only one side but with different rhetoric
- MuffinFlavored 3y ago
  Curious what you mean by this. I know it's a sensitive topic but... the people who are really "far left" or "far right" definitely aren't what I would call "on the same side with one another" unless you mean "pawns/positioned against each other by the media they seek out to consume/think the worst of each other/are ultra radical" Not sure what you might mean by "that's one side"