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Hard for me to draw inspiration from that, at least compared to Al Gore. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-fuzzies-and-utilons-separate

Hard for me to draw inspiration from that, at least compared to Al Gore. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-fuzzies-and-utilons-separately https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3p3CYauiX8oLjmwRF/purchase-f...

neom 2y ago
As the CEO of Habitat for Humanity says in the video, it was for marketing, not the houses he literally built. "I don't think anyone would have hear of Habitat for Humanity If President and Mrs. Carter hadn't gotten on that bus in 1984" - They've since gone on to build over 800,000 homes - he could have easily not gotten behind them in such an earnest way year over year.
- benatkin 2y ago
  And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...
  - lelandfe 2y ago
    Sadly, things in the 80's tended to get few upvotes on YouTube. But Carter really was the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work... > Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities Habitat-NYC is an independent affiliate, with its own CEO and everything.
    - benatkin 2y ago
      If I was running a charity like that, I would try to curate the main YouTube account and make it so practically everything gets at least hundreds of likes.
      - wewtyflakes 2y ago
        Believe it or not, things mattered before Youtube existed.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    11 years old and I doubt HfH was spamming their channel with reactions, memes, and Crazy challenges (GONE SEXUAL!). A lot of the "good content" isn't as "watchable", sadly. I am glad more and more well produced channels are starting to buck this trend though. They won't ever be Mr. Beast levels, but they amass a solid following.
    - benatkin 2y ago
      2013 was a big year on YouTube, it was the year after Gangnam Style came out - the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. When I see old videos on there I often see a high upvote count.
      - johnnyanmac 2y ago
        Sure, but this is a channel that has 12k subs, in 2024. I can't imagine more than a few thousand subs in 2023. And it's not a music video. 2013 was a big year but also when the algorithms went into overdrive on what you needed to do to drive engagement. The only thing this video didn't do "wrong" was be less than 5 minutes, which IIRC was the mini umum video length of that time to not be punished by the algorithm.

neom 2y ago

As the CEO of Habitat for Humanity says in the video, it was for marketing, not the houses he literally built. "I don't think anyone would have hear of Habitat for Humanity If President and Mrs. Carter hadn't gotten on that bus in 1984" - They've since gone on to build over 800,000 homes - he could have easily not gotten behind them in such an earnest way year over year.

benatkin 2y ago
And the video has 16 upvotes on YouTube? Not that I wish it had more, because Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities. https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-brooklyn-bedford-stuyvesant-poor-lose-homes https://www.propublica.org/article/habitat-for-humanity-broo...
- lelandfe 2y ago
  Sadly, things in the 80's tended to get few upvotes on YouTube. But Carter really was the real deal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work_Project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_%26_Rosalynn_Carter_Work... > Habitat for Humanity might not be among the best major humanitarian charities Habitat-NYC is an independent affiliate, with its own CEO and everything.
  - benatkin 2y ago
    If I was running a charity like that, I would try to curate the main YouTube account and make it so practically everything gets at least hundreds of likes.
    - wewtyflakes 2y ago
      Believe it or not, things mattered before Youtube existed.
- johnnyanmac 2y ago
  11 years old and I doubt HfH was spamming their channel with reactions, memes, and Crazy challenges (GONE SEXUAL!). A lot of the "good content" isn't as "watchable", sadly. I am glad more and more well produced channels are starting to buck this trend though. They won't ever be Mr. Beast levels, but they amass a solid following.
  - benatkin 2y ago
    2013 was a big year on YouTube, it was the year after Gangnam Style came out - the first YouTube video to reach a billion views. When I see old videos on there I often see a high upvote count.
    - johnnyanmac 2y ago
      Sure, but this is a channel that has 12k subs, in 2024. I can't imagine more than a few thousand subs in 2023. And it's not a music video. 2013 was a big year but also when the algorithms went into overdrive on what you needed to do to drive engagement. The only thing this video didn't do "wrong" was be less than 5 minutes, which IIRC was the mini umum video length of that time to not be punished by the algorithm.