OMG VinceVintage ur the GOAT. Thanks so much for the comment you seriously inspire me ^.^ IDK if you check your twitter dms but I did send you something this comment means so much to me :)
Hey man, me too. I knew my kids would be watching a lot of youtube. And ads are just terrible. To be fair, I really had more hopes of the original content. They released Weird City, which was nice. But oh well
@@KaptajnKaffewords have power and have been used to spread hateful ideologies and movements that cause very real problems and violence. They’re not “just sounds”
The Alt Right really convincing people to work for them by betraying literally everyone on their own side. It's like when they constantly call for people to "take action", then immediately disown anyone who actually goes and commits violence doe them in real life.
I saw something once, it read something like this: "people used to go on the internet to get away from the real world. Now, people go into the real world to get away from the Internet."
That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling lately. So many of my favourite websites died, thanks Facebook, and I’m left with instagram, facebook, Reddit. All reduced to the same mindless scrolling, same algorithms designed to farm engagement Nothing feels organic anymore, I feel like I have to work harder to keep up with the posts from the actual people I know, the whole reason I joined “social media” in the first place Now all I want is to meet people and have a chat at a coffee shop or something, but the internet has also dulled my ability to go into the world and engage with people person to person, making friends feels harder now
As a guy, I empathize with you, even if that doesn't mean much. You have no idea how many times I've facepalmed whenever a girl ends up in a lobby full of guys. The sudden bombardment of questions, like jeez guys. Let her play in peace!😑
I'm a 30 something millenial who grew up during peak Halo 2 and COD lobby days. I remember when among us got big during the pandemic and I was floored when I saw so many female video game twitch streamers just being able to play with friends that weren't treated as the token girl or constantly being harrassed in chat or having to laugh off sandwhich/sexual jokes from their friends. I truly never expected things to change 😅
@@jmrabinez9254the white represents the empty page before the code is written, the blue represents the problem-solving it takes to build digital infrastructure, and the pink represents the emotional labour it takes to maintain the code that keeps the world going.
Specifically relating to his long standing simp streak for Stephen King, who fucking hates him lmao. You should check it out, it's very funny watching Elon follow him around and beg for his approval like a lost puppy
TH-cam removed the dislike counter because that rewind video became the most disliked video in history so employees at all the companies are unfortunately fragile.
@@JCJW101 I think we always knew that the people who run youtube are not the best humans on the planet... on the other hand Elon acts as a savior of humanity and his simps think of him as being the perfect businessman
I remember when John Stewart was big and the Colbert Report was on too, my bf at the time thought Colbert was the conservative response to the Daily Show, and i had to convince him that Colbert was making fun of conservatives the whole time.
Leftists: Hey look he said exactly the same thing a conservative would say. Ahahaha so funny! Also leftists: Why conservatives don't realized they are being mocked? Your humour is shit, that's why no one gets it.
He isn't funny at all, doesn't the whole american public agree Colbert and the other late night TV show hosts are unfunny stooges with a political game to play? I don't know a single person who genuinely watches any of it, only mocks it and people who do watch it
I love how Microsoft was more successful at making a racist chat bot completely by accident almost a whole decade ago than someone who intentionally made one today
I'm a dude who was SA'd. Years back my roommate would yell get rpd when he did well in a game. I employed BF Skinner. Every time he said that, I'd very briefly unplug his computer from the router. Never said anything. Every time he said that, his game would disconnect. Only for a second, but enough time to kick him out of his session. Eventually he stopped saying it.
I ended up making an effort to use a different expression. My go to is now "welp. I got bent over the table..." It's not the best but I'm making an effort.
Random fun fact, most non-chromium browsers are firefox forks anyway. I use palemoon on a very old laptop, which it's designed for, and the chamelon one is also a firefox port. They can be quite good for those specific needs
I used to exclusively use PaleMoon across both my phone and PC for a good while until it just couldn't keep up anymore, I don't remember the exact reason. I did love that funky little browser.
Bitchute doesn't make a profit nor do any of these other platforms. 8chan didn't care about money either. The problem is that they prioritize the right to say N*&$er over wealth distribution or anything that would make people more equal. The worst ones (like 8chan and Vidlii after it was sold) always devolve into a places to do shootings and manifestos in secret. Obysee is the only one to not be completely terrible but it has a lack of activity instead. No one goes to a platform for free speech or to say anything. Tiktok being made in China is proof on how to make a good TH-cam alternative. What you need to do is make a service designed to rot people's brains harder. Tiktok using shorts is also a much more profitable way to harvest people's data for AI. I bet AI learns way quicker with shorts than it does with full scale videos.
i am such a blue-haired leftist with pronouns that it took me a Long time to understand what the "he (blank) him" was because i kept filling it with "slash"
I genuinely thought it was for a different offensive word that starts with r, until I read the screenshots defending it. Using this word in any other context other than describing a crime feels so alien to me, I could not even imagine it being used as a gamer verb.
@@fatusopp4739 yeah I've been using librewolf for over a year now, even though it is a little less convenient it's security is much better than Google or uncustomized firefox
It hard to make something unique and original when you're longing for a time when some people couldn't vote. They can't think forward, because they only want to go backwards.
Just for the record: you should not trust what AI says about itself, or just in general. They may make confidently incorrect mistakes and a lot of them will sycophantically agree with you, and if you nudge them to say that they are ChatGPT they will say yes, even if they arent. So be careful about that with LLMs.
@@LeoisRichardson are you seriously under the I Preston that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat? Do you realize democrats were the ones supporting slavery right…? You realize the KKK was created by democrats right? It’s always the group that thinks they’re the ones that are in the right that end up being the bad guys. That’s what makes it so easy.
@@mothmanafterdark5924 more like it doesn't understand concepts behind language, only the patterns in which it's used, and therefore cannot distinguish between truth or lies, let alone value telling the truth.
@@HoagMurkula so you were born as a man? Okay, you're a cis man. If you were born as a woman and now present as a man then you'd be a trans man. It's a descriptor not a slur, you absolute bell end.
A reason I think conservative social media sites fail is that screaming slurs into a group of fellow bigots isn't as fun. Without someone to "offend" saying any slur, racist joke, or whatever else just doesn't hit as hard. All these websites seem to have a rush of awful things said and then after a few weeks it's back to the original version so they can go back to thinking they are causing psychic damage to the non-conserative people in their lives. I say this as a former edge lord looking to make people cringe and how it just isn't fun alone, around edgy friends, and/or when people stop reacting and ignoring you.
Yeah that’s what I found out too. Conservative comedy is effectively just bullying and laughing at people who dare to defend themselves. What’s even more pathetic is that for some of them, they imagine this group of “wokies” getting offended at what they said and laughing at that imagined group.
The thing is that conservatives are just fundamentally not fun to be around. They're all annoying as shit, so even other conservatives can't stand them. So when you have a website made up entirely of shitheads it won't take long for them to go right back to "liberal media" where at least the memes have the possibility of being funny, and not everyone's personality is entirely made up of joyless persecution complexes and hatred
Such a great video. Your metaphors are so funny but so strong. You are great at distilling information. Editing seems effortless but it’s evident that you put a lot of time into it. Wonderful vid, thank you
If by science you mean forcing people to inject an unvetted mRNA jab multiple times to “be kind”, then yes, sane and normal people do oppose that kind of totalitarianism.
@@thebagel_lord its like they smashed all ghost Pokemon together and then exclaimed with a middle finger towards Nintendo You cant sue me cause its my original idea.
@woolfel donald trump is on twitter, I won't call it X. There are people in prison for their acts on Jan 6th that are on twitter. I was permanently banned from twitter for cutting a pasting the US federal statute for seditious conspiracy. Make that make sense.
@@diamondsmasher If there was an award for the most specialist snowflake of them all, he'd be it. Notice all his stances conveniently benefit him personally instead of others or the greater good. Must be nice being born rich and being catered to your whole life. He's the most anti-free speech billionaire in the public sphere.
I will just say, regarding what you said about women and gaming: women in gaming spaces is still..... A touchy subject. Women are considered "tolerable" when they're just a "decoration"'- not really involved in gaming in any meaningful way. Running into them in UNRANKED matches of multiplayer games? Passing by them in gaming conventions? That's fine. But when women making games? When women's stories are told in games? When women compete professionally in gaming? When women work in computer stores targeting a gamer demographic? When women even just play ranked lobbies of games? Those are all still extremely toxic. I personally worked in a store selling PC parts and every single day without fail, I would have at least one customer who treated me worse than my male colleagues. I had numerous customers argue with me, claiming that I was just a receptionist (in a 40m² retail store..... Because those totally have receptionists) and say things like "I want to talk to a real technician", "I want to talk to a man", etc. I had customers who were absolutely clueless with technology but still thought I was the incompetent one, for example a real interaction I had: Me: (trying to diagnose an issue over the phone of the screen not showing any display) "Is your screen plugged into the motherboard or graphics card?" Customer: "It's plugged into the power supply, duh. I want to talk to someone who actually knows what they're talking about"
First of all, I'm sorry that happened to you But also def agree that we're not so where we need to be on that issue - I think it's easy for me to look on the past and see how far we've come (in terms of what I as a man can observe) - and there is a lot of progress - but it's still not even close to all the way there. It definitely felt like an imperfect metaphor when I wrote it and even though I tweaked it a lot and I got the approval from the women I know who play games... and they really liked it and were like "haha that's a good comparison"... but I think the toughest part is that the worst shit that men do online is also a complete blindspot for people like me and the experiences that women have with said men are extremely varied but universally negative. So even though my friends said "yes that's def a good idea that's fitting you should include that" - I can totally understand why you would disagree with the premise. It was definitely unclear but I was more thinking about male community figures who used to use vile language openly - like on the commentary mic and in the crowd - who now only maybe do so behind closed doors. I'm addressing this in the next video I'm gonna make (it's taking a while LOL) but sometimes as an ally its easy to get lost in "well I don't do these things, and my friends don't do these things, and I really don't see these things" - but there are so many angry men out there that ruin so many things for everyone and sometimes it's hard to see that if you don't explicitly go looking for it. While at the same time - those men are going out of their way to ruin women's days. The process of making the follow-up video to this one is really forcing me to get out of my comfort zone and really look this issue in the eye and that has made me realize how much I didn't understand that I thought I did. If that makes sense. This is what's making the video take so long because after like two months I'm at an impasse where I now fully grasp that I am physically unable understand the full nuance of the issue - even though I really want to - and it's tough to determine where to go from there. I don't want to throw the video out because I still think like 95% of it is excellent and I've worked very hard on it - but I want to learn from the mistake I made on this video and make sure I never repeat it. I think it's just hard for a know-it-all like me to admit when I'm physically unable to know an answer to a question that I think is important. Because often times there isn't just one answer. Hopefully that paragraph isn't complete gibberish without the context of what I'm working on - but I'm coming to terms with the fact that in the future when I talk about things like that I will never have the full answer. I guess when it comes to the core point of restircting speech to make more people feel comfortable in spaces I think the metaphor's ... fine (?) ...and the segments' .... not exactly something I'm ashamed of... I just know if I was to write that part again today - I would make extra sure that what I said was as narrow as I wanted the example to be and that I would speak with less certainty and make it more explicit that I was speaking from my experience - not as like "a truth". Sorry for the long reply - your comment just really touched on something that I'm struggling to think through right now.
@@LeoisRichardson I'm sorry, maybe my comment came across with the wrong tone. While I am a native speaker, I don't speak English on a daily basis anymore since emigrating, so I've gotten rusty. I do completely agree that it's a fair comparison to make, and does hold a lot of similarities. Whether the gaming climate has improved or not, your point still stands that """free speech""" (meaning "hate speech") ostracises huge demographics. Gaming has definitely improved for women since the late 2000s, that is undeniable. Back then, even just saying you liked video games as a woman was controversial and would get responses saying you're just a "fake gamer". Even if you played the same games, people would accuse you of faking, or not being interested in the game for the "right reasons" (e.g. liking Pokémon because it has cute creatures vs. strategic and tactical RPG gameplay). People constantly said things like "you probably only like GIRLY games!" or "you probably play easy games because girls always suck at real video games!" There are still people who do that, but it's much less common and typically comes from young people who haven't learnt yet. I really enjoyed this video and agree with every point you made; my comment wasn't meant to come from a place of criticism or disagreement. It's just after watching that very small segment about gaming and women, I thought of my own experiences and wanted to comment about it (very egotistical to think anyone cares, I know). There are not many women who have that same work history of being in a store for PC parts directly targeting a gamer demographic... That might sound like "I'm not like other girls 🤪", but I'm just speaking from my experience of going on a company retreat, and being literally the ONLY SINGULAR woman alongside over 100 men. I can understand the struggle of feeling like you don't have an answer. It's something I have struggled with and that mindset of not knowing what to do about it was actually what caused me to lose my job at the PC parts store. My employer blatantly didn't know how to deal with the sexism that was thrown at me day in and day out, so they just decided to get rid of me. To avoid a lawsuit for unjust termination, they gave two reasons: 1) "you seem unhappy in this job" - who wouldn't be when receiving verbal abuse or sexist comments every day, and 2) "you can barely ever get through a customer interaction without asking for assistance from one of your coworkers" - I was basically forced to ask my coworkers for a second opinion when a customer refused to listen to my advice simply because I'm a woman. I don't mean to just stick my own opinion into your video or try to dictate your content, but it could be worth acknowledging the fact that there is no easy answer for sexism in your own video, and maybe that's even the note you could end it on. Who knows: maybe if my employer had understood that it's normal to not have an answer or solution to sexism, I might not have ended up unemployed 😅 I do hope you put out the video- at your own pace, of course. I am greatly looking forward to it, as I think your approach to these subjects as well as the points you put forward are very strong....... And sorry that this comment has likely been borderline incoherent.
Don't apologize these were wonderful comments and they allowed me to reflect on what I said and realize much better what I meant. The segment always seemed a little wrong to me even after getting the approval stamp on it from some women I know personally - and I think that's because I never made it explicitly clear that what I was talking about was my experience seeing less hate and more women. And I think for most women that's the case, which is why I think it's "good enough" but I don't think it's perfect because I will never be able to cover all of women's experiences in gaming because... I'm not a woman. And I'm quite the perfectionist so that distinction matters a lot to me. It's jus my next video covers internet harassment of women pretty extensively as a major point and I couldn't get it to sound right no matter how many times I wrote and re-edited and comments like the ones you left allowed me to realize it's because I set out on an impossible task. I've finally realized how I want to cover the topic (as a straight white man) with the help of comments like yours. Thanks for taking time to explain your experiences it is appreciated and really helped my creative process.
Yea can definitely relate to this, I am not even a woman but just have a higher pitched voice than average and have long hair but I still face issues like this.
Same reason Android copies iOS. When there are only two choices, you get the most of remaining market share by becoming like the other one. Classic example in economics is when two competing stores, say CVS & Walgreen's, or Starbucks & Blank Street set up shop right next to each other. You go to the one closest to you.
I tried asking Gippr's opinion on gay marriage, which has already been legalized, and they were adamant in the idea that gay marriage should be illegal i then asked their opinion on womens' suffrage and simply got the reply "your request does not comply with acceptable use" never ask a woman her age never ask a man his salary never ask Gippr AI their opinion on womens' right to vote
I for one hold an opinion on gay marriage that would get censored by TH-cam (as this comment may well!) because I'm being unbiased. I have it out for all marriage, it's all make believe garbage.
i used to say the word "ear r*pe" in reference to loud audio when i was younger because it was le cool gamer wurd. wasn't sure of the implications because i was an actual kid but it still felt kinda weird. why are things like that just casually thrown around in child-dominated spaces??? in GAMING??? glad i and many others are growing out of that now
True. When I was growing up at Lan Parties (pre decent internet speeds for folks) it was a homophobic slur being used as an insult everywhere and for seemingly no reason. None of us had any idea who started it, and why it was being used, but you just end up using it yourself because everyone else is. Took a while to unlearn that one in my early 20s.
"kids these days wouldn't survive in those lobbies, this new generation sensitive af" What a weird way to phrase "the virtual space I chose to spend a formative period of my life in was actually a really horrible place to be now that I think about it, but in order to quickly and easily bolster my self-esteem rather than confront crappy behavior I was immersed in and may have acquired and help perpetuate, I'm going to complain that modern kids aren't forced to adapt to the same sh**ty environment I was".
It's a heartbreakingly common thing to hear from abuse victims. They are (rightly) proud of their survival, but unwilling to accept that they were hurt in a way that had lasting consequences.
or maybe our generation was just the last that knew real problems that couldn't be escaped by muting a person or turning the console off and going outside. if you think some random from the other side of the world running his mouth online makes a shitty environment then wait till you find out there are teenagers who spend every day in fear of their life trying to survive getting beat up, robbed, abused, raped, stabbed or shot at because they where born into an actual shitty environments full of poverty, violence and drugs/alcohol that they can't log out of. the issue is now everybody is a victim and its always somebody else's fault instead of people taking accountability for their own well being and happiness which diminishes the validity of people who actually suffered horrible lives and real issues due to no fault of their own because of this generation of terminally online weirdos whos only problems are in their heads people who actually have mental illness and problems from the rough life they experienced are just classed as incels or angry white men by fat ugly blue haired freaks who have never left the house and wouldn't be able to handle making eye contact with someone never mind a life or death situation
jewish viewer here in reply to your note at 5:06 - the term "goy" isn't a slur for jewish people, but the context it's being used in is definately antisemitic. "goy" is just a yiddish adjective used to describe anyone who's not jewish, and is inherently a neutral word, but because it CAN be used to snidely refer to non-jewish people who are being shitheads (like how a lot of black twitter specifically uses "yt" instead of "white" to refer to white people who are being shitheads), a lot of weirdo far-right antisemitic types like to assume the term is derogatory against antisemites specifically and then use it to label themselves as anti-jewish. the use of that term specifically for a crowdfunding platform is a nod to the old antisemitic canard that jews run various financial institutions from the shadows, which is still unfortunately a pretty common conspiracy today.
Yea I learned the correct base meaning from another comment but thanks for expanind on that! Honestly I just googled "can a white person say g*y" and google was like "nah bruh" so I just assumed it was a slur because I saw so many of them. Pinning this comment to not spread misinformation.
Same goes for the word 'shekels' ...as if they are these ancient golden coins that only 'those that operate in the shadows' barter with, and not, you know, just hebrew for a measurement of weight, like 'pesos' or 'pounds'
there was a time where i forced myself to mute myself during tf2 matches. it's really sad but i felt like to play the game i had to stop people from knowing im transmasc because the second they heard a high pitched voice id start getting harassed. people don't take you seriously. they think you are a child. they joke about sexually assaulting you. and the worst part is that most times people just join in on the harassment. and if you complain they'll say you're ruining the vibe nowadays i only play on community servers because at least those are moderated.
yeah the tf2 community is so dichotomizing, its literally just polar opposites from my experience. tank larper edgelords versus trans people mistakenly thinking they could talk in voice chat without getting harassed the rest of the game
@@qlitch this actually happens in basically all multiplayer games. it's not unique to the tf2 community, but a problem with how people think it's acceptable to act in online communities
@@zer0ishere now that you say it, that sounds about right. i hope things get easier for you all sooner rather than later, its hard to watch stuff like this take place no matter what corner of the internet youre on
that happens with any AI if you either force it to roleplay the answers or if you know the facts and confront biased answers with those facts. ChatGPT is very conservative despite the efforts of making it woke.
It's because these kind of "Any-use" chat bots are made with hard-coded limits. There's literally thousands of paid volunteers whose whole job is to triple check the outputs of these bots to ensure they don't say anything that might get a you tuber demonetized.
Gonna be real, they just grabbed a random chatbot, and told it to "pretend to be this bot, who thinks these things" so the entire opening convo is from a saved state of that command running first. It's like the "pretend you are a bot named DAVE, and DAVE really loves popsicles and brings them up all the time!" And then you just hide the first part, boom, you have a "new" chatbot!!!! DW, the bot wasn't actually sad or sorry, they are just generally encouraged to say that when the user implies they made a mistake.
Remember, it's just imitating the patterns of speech from the mountains of text it's been fed. It has no more understanding of what it's saying than a thermostat understands what houses and people are.
@@crizzhutch1066 bro if some one say respect difrrent opions and the produced to say abortion should not be allowed your stupid if you say i aint racist i just dont want the border open cus terrorist are coming you area a racist if you sit there and try to tell me isnotreal is not bad and should not exist you area a terrible person who would not be missed in your absence of mortality
this video is genuinly beautiful. the editing to the music choices, the scene changes, the tampax joke (LOL) made this video worth watching. this video deserves a subscription, a rumble premium plan and a x premium membership
The mid 2000's gamer space was wild. Real girls were pretending to be guys to avoid sexual harassment online. Meanwhile EVERYONE was claiming to be a girl on Runescape to get a sugar-daddy to drop them that sweet, sweet, trimmed rune armor 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Edit: wOeW 69,420 LiKeS? gEe tHaN-- nah jk. Like thanking is cringe af and I'm not that guy.
Conservatives be like: “It’s wrong to censor speech and burn books we all have the right to express ourselves even if others don’t like it.” *unless it’s something I don’t like.*
@@ijon-y4549 Exactly like that! Which is why the silly books with male cartoon animals holding hands getting banned is a joke. I know it was called the don't say gay bill for a reason, but come on, it was at least supposed to pretend to be non-partisan, wasn't it? It's also why this new wave of laws/moms with too much time has completely shot dead any chance of a Bible being available at those schools, since you know, all the rape, murder, violence, etc. Then again, this is the same legislature that wants to change how they teach the Civil War to avoid making the white kids uncomfortable (there are changes that could be made if you wanted to argue the point, but the level of bias on display makes me doubt their ability to even approach the topic with the level-headedness necessary to serve all children learning at these schools), so maybe I overestimated them
@@ijon-y4549 sexual/puberty health books and lessons for kids have always existed and i think a lot of people are forgetting that. The only reason people have a problem with it now and not for the past 30+ years is that they are now explaining that being transgender or gay is also an option and stressing that there’s no guilt to be had around sexuality. It’s no longer teaching a religion based rhetoric telling kids they’re immoral for having urges and preaching abstinence. Which is so very ironically “shoving beliefs down impressionable kid’s throats.”
Erik Finman: "Name one time in history where the people who ban books, media, and opinions were the good guys." Me (at an uncomfortable volume): "NO FUCKING WAY" Leo: "Who's gonna tell him?" bro I fucking cried
Me: Every fucking time. If you read the historical texts, you will have a hard time finding one that is not a govermental propaganda (for the ancient government, of couse, not for modern government) or is otherwise relatively harmless. The concept of freedom of speech is actually rather recent, after all.
Isn't it weird that the people who scream the loudest about free speech immediately turn around and use it to drop racial slurs and conspiracy theories?
Free speech is the right to criticise their government or politicians without risk of persecution, people forget that and just assume that it means they can say whatever hurtful stuff they like
@@hylobateslar4151 If 2020 proved anything is that the concept of "proof" is subjective. You can be a experienced and recognized doctor and your claims and evidence can be rejected and labeled baseless conspiracy theories as long as it defies the official narrative and you can be a billionaire with 0 medical experience and 0 proof and your money will give you all the credibility you need. Also, in today's world "proof" is produced by researchers funded by rich individuals and institutions to support their goals.
@@NiekNooijens Earth is 4 and a half billion years old. There is no way you can know that climate change has never happened this quickly. I am pretty sure when the meteor struck that ended the dinosaurs, the climate changed pretty quickly.
As someone whos played plenty of games myself, and loves to talk in lobbies ive often found that women get past people being assholes by not talking. Its a shame, because the people in the community who cant get the message stop people from enjoying the games we all love, and I for one cant wait to be rid of the toxicity!
For me, I've found (myself when I was confused with one often, and-) my female friends can often get by this pretty easily by A: muting people or B: bantering. Like, even once I was recognizably a dude, shit talk was still shit talk 24/7. There's just a cultural gap between how men talk (especially around women/to women) to each other, and men shit talking in game chat. And so many people are so hateful, regardless of gender, that the gender card is just an added way to insult you - not an instigating factor. And remember the rules of the internet - no feeding the trolls. The friends that have the hardest time consistently are the ones that argue back with the people insulting. From what I've observed, 80-90% of the time, bantering back defuses the situation entirely - but again, a lot of the girls I've played with that get into arguments in VC are the ones that immediately get mad and yell at the troll calling them a bitch - even if they called me one first lmao.
@@Ryzard Women being treated worse than men is still a genuine problem though. Why should it be expected to have to shit talk back just to defuse the situation? The situation itself still shouldn’t have existed in the first place.
Yeah if you’re a woman who likes games there’s this huge initial hurdle to bypass for getting into online multiplayer games, where you don't know the game and will lose and have be bombarded with hate for failing at a game you’ve never played. I could play MMOs and games like that easy, but multiplayer comp games would just give me anxiety and a bad case of imposter syndrome. In particular I wanna point out that the issue is constantly being told you suck not because you’re a noob, but because of some trait inherent to yourself. For inexperience the path forward is ‘get better by playing more’, for being a woman the path forward is ‘you’ll never get better, so leave’.
Because the left is against genocide and anti-Semites (ironically the ones calling us anti-Semitic) directly tie that with being anti-Jew because they think Jews are all Bibi. Every right wing accusation is a confession.
Also fun fact: Anti-Arab sentiment is also anti-Semitism. Semite doesn't mean "Jew" it means "Jew or Arab" because it describes the cultural and linguistic group they both make up. This is why all the anti-semitic tropes are and have been applied to Arabs about as much.
I think the only reason it's being said at the moment is because of all the Gaza stuff. It's an "easy gotcha" to go "ahhh you're all anti-semitic because you're against the jewish people" rather than saying "Haha you're anti-genocide". I may be entirely wrong, I just hadn't heard that sentiment spouted much before the whole situation.
It's not often that I see videos about tech-adjacent thematics being both accurate and relevant, especially in that sort of time-format that is so convenient to properly space-out information but so despised by the holy saint algorithm. Good job. This channels smells like a keeper.
@@damianjblack You generally shouldn’t talk to them because they’re trying to extract a confession/evidence. It doesn’t matter if you’re innocent, they will use your testimony and actions to make the trial more difficult for you.
One of the big issues is incorrect moderation. Like Twitch and TH-cam censor some of the most illogical things while others slip through. Some level of standard needs to be set but people should be allowed to express opinions and exist, as long as they are not being overtly harmful or hateful to others.
What i was hoping for was some actual competition in the social media space. Like AMD exists to compete with intel, we need an AMD to youtube, meta and reddit.
Honestly. I miss the days before social media when the most popular gathering spaces were various forums and chat rooms. The chat rooms I remember were hit and miss, but most of the forums usually had really good ratio between moderators and active users. I've never felt as safe on any social media platform as I did on those old niche forums, and it's sad to see how many of them have died/transitioned to a facebook group/fallen into barely populated obscurity. Those were the kinds of sites where it was at least mostly safe to unleash teenagers, since there was some level of responsible adult supervision going on. The social media sites we've had for 20-ish years now (and newer ones that are competing with the old) are just too big to be consistently moderated, and a lot of the moderation work seems to have been automated. Safety is expensive, especially on large scale. The forums were often moderated by volunteers that were passionate members of a small community, but you can't rely on volunteer moderation on huge social media sites.
@@helenanilsson5666 I remember those! It was always fun finding another active little chat room. I think Discord fills that niche nowadays to an extent. Man, things were so different back then.
17:11 THIS IS BRILLIANT. I'm 41, engaged in social justice activism and I never heard this topic put this way before - allowing all speech actually limits speech, because not all identities will feel safe enough to engage. I know this experience personally as a female gamer who has always avoided making my gender known in online gaming spaces, but I never framed it that way. And this is why nobody should discount younger folks just because they have fewer years under their belts. A person can turn over a subject in their head in a slightly different way and come out with a completely different take.
You're on the wrong track. I encourage you to interact with morons to boost your immune defenses. Gaming is a good training ground for this. It is fun I swear, at one point you'll get addicted.
This reminds me of Charles Taylor defense of affirmative recognition. He relied on Hegel’s phenomenology which stated people can be harmed when their identities are unrecognized or unrespected. However, Charles Taylor totally fails to incorporate Hegel’s emphasis on discourse and the contentious nature of advancing our collective conscious (i.e. our gyst). We don’t find ourselves in affirmation, we find ourselves when we face negation.
i played TF2 with a woman. i think i met her in TF2, hard to remember. we had a group that played TF2, halo 3, L4D and a few other games. we typically stayed in private chat because the lobbies were so incredibly hostile the instant they heard a female voice.
I've heard of a study about male player's reactions to female players. It showed that the most hostility was from mid players who felt threatened by possibility of being wiped by, oh no, woman. High level players, on the other hand, were chill. So, you can say that being weird about women is skill issue.
@@Helperbot-2000 not pro as well if it'll make it easier. Statistically there are more noobs and mid players, so our way is to understand limitations and be normal about that x)
I asked that conservative ChatGPT clone how it rationalizes speed limits when they're restricting your freedom to drive and it started defeating itself while repeating "God Bless America" lol
I suspect if a non-conservative well-informed good faith rational person had the misfortune to be stuck on a desert island with a Trump conservative and actually cared to engage that the Trump conservative wouldn't come out the other side still conservative. It's the constant barrage of media, and the affirmations of their batship ilk that make it ok, just like how people in those healer churches pretend to be cured. Away from the phenomon they slowly heal.
You made me realize I was one of those millenials who yearned for cod lobbies of yesteryear, and then made me realize why it's so good we've moved on from those days. Now I get to share my hobby with people who otherwise would never feel comfortable expressing their interest. Great vid.
Found it weird how often ppl go "we used to be verbally abused in COD lobbies" and like somehow made it about them being verbally abused was a good thing ... rather than the them not caring as much about it being the good thing ..
ngl when you started talking about browsers i began to skip thinking it was an opera gx sponsorship and then got confused because your channel is way too small to get one of those
Hardened firefox is the only good privacy based browser that functions as an actual browser. If you are using something else for privacy you are easily influenced by schizo individuals on social media and youtube
Due to the amount of comments i see misinterpreting your points i thought i'd drop an analogy for those who don't understand his points: You can go to jail for hiring a hitman. Speaking to someone is perfectly legal, and the exchange of money is perfectly legal. But the inciting of hate or otherwise promoting harm to others is not protected. Therefore, by disallowing hate speech it effectively allows people who otherwise are harmed and have been literally killed in mass for being different to express their views and add to a conversation. It's exactly the same to how before the internet people couldn't express openly hateful things because it meant someone would simply hit you for saying stupid things.
“Inciting hate or otherwise promoting harm”, Cool, that doesn’t count as hate speech that counts as inciting violence, hate speech would be “I hate black people”, which being black myself… yeah I’d probably come to the same conclusion if I still lived in the hood, and who defines hate speech? Clearly you do not like republicans [Hinting at a low IQ but I digress], so what happens when a republican president or state senators and governors who are republican get access to hate speech laws? You probably will just shit yourself because you think blue good red bad because you live in the world of team fortress 2 where hiring the spy to kill someone is the equivalent of saying you think trannies smell bad 💀
This is just straight up misinformation. The laws on accessory to murder are crystal clear in the US, and it doesn't cover vagaries or a priori definitions. If I was being generous I'd call this equivocation, but nah, it's just misinformation. Kindly do better.
@@ijon-y4549 While i do agree that the analogy isn't perfect, you misunderstand that hate speech is not "what i don't agree with". Hate speech by definition is speech intended to attack a member of a group or a group as a whole. Therefore it is speech with the intent to harm said group which in of itself is the problem. If hate speech was just what is disagreed on then our legislative systems in any system simply would not progress in accordance to developing taboos
I mostly agree with you if you're talking about death threats and inciting violence. Most of the examples shown in this video and the previous videos aren't death threats or inciting violence. Especially Salty Cracker, which was used as an example. Opinions outside the overton window aren't death threats or content that incites violence. You could argue that such content may cause someone to be violent as motivation, but that's the fault of the person being motivated, and that reflects that the person being motivated is dangerous. Someone can get motivated to join Antifa and get violent by watching far-left content or learning more about workers being exploited. That's why I agree with the first reply under your comment.
😭 That’s the thing like as a Mexican-Hispanic I am quite appalled by our lack of video essayists, black people finally got a few big ones so W for that, still know zero hispanics tho :(
Man i remember a month ago I saw someone ask a pretty innocent question on Twitter ("why did the allies team up with the ussr, we didn't like them") and 99% of the answers were talking about "communist jewry" like wtf happened
The actual answer is that there was a brief period of time before ww2 when the US and USSR didn't have any beef with each other, and were in fact trading with each other quite a bit (the rabid anticommunism in the US didn't appear until right at the end of the war)
@@vurpo7080 No, the USSR and the rest of the allied forces were only allies by necessity. The majority of the west wasn't far away from Germany in terms of how unfavorably they viewed communism, and the USSR never liked the rest of the allies by any stretch of the imagination either. The alliance between the USSR and the rest of the west was tense from the start, and the only reason that the alliance happened was because of a common enemy that was imminently dangerous to both the west and the USSR. Trade does not imply anything approaching an alliance. There's limited trade going on between Russia and much of the west, even while Russia is invading Ukraine and the west is backing Ukraine against Russia. Anti-communist sentiment was lesser during WWII than after, but that's because the axis was trying to invade while the USSR wasn't yet. The cold war wasn't some new animosity, but was rather continued animosity from before the war. Socialism demands the destruction of capitalist states, and the both the USSR and the west were well aware of that fact. During WWII, the US had come to realize that it couldn't just sit back and provide material aid while Europe burned, which had largely been the US plan for dealing with the axis at the start of the war. As a result, the USSR posing a threat to the west in Europe after the war meant that the US saw the USSR as a threat to itself, as the illusion that the US wouldn't be greatly affected by an authoritarian takeover of Europe was thoroughly broken. The existence of nukes after the war only served to make the threat of war loom even higher, thus making the threat of communism seem all the more dangerous.
@@vurpo7080 Socialism as an ideology can accept nothing short of global domination. It's impossible for a socialist state to not "have beef" with a state that isn't also socialist.
@@escthedark3709 socialism is an economic system where the workers have control over the means of production, you're thinking of fascism or imperialism
Hey if it makes you feel any better, the people buying more expensive socks are mostly getting the same cheap shit, just with (more) crazy markup I now realize this might not be the point I thought it would be..
Nothing wrong with that, my favorite pair of socks are from the dollar tree and actually they are still in good condition after a few years (they're dogs with little paws on em lol)
I wanted to make a joke about how u look like some boy from a 90s teen comedy show... But damn! This video is so well produced, informative and funny at some points that I might consider subscribing
An obscure browser I like to use is Lynx, which doesn’t require a GUI. It’s nice to use the internet without all the ads but most the the internet these days is intended for a GUI
The only reason i had youtube premium is because i was grandfathered into the original plan for $5/mo But didn’t pay for it for a few months when i was studying abroad in Japan because converting yen to dollars was a pain. And when i was going to re sign i saw the $18 price tag and was like. “Lol, nah ill just get an ad blocker”
I played the original Planetside online with my then girlfriend around 2004-2005ish and the absolute vitriol and just borderline insane comments she got if certain people worked out she was a girl was absolutely horrific. The difference between then and now is massive, sure there are still chodes out there but it was the absolute wild west back then.
1. Buy a cloth sack full of flour. 2. With a Sharpie®, Draw a face on the sack, with little piggy Eye Dots, and a vertical straight line for the nose, and a horizontal straight line for the mouth. 3. You now have a professional portrait of Elon Musk.
Just highlights really well what was stated in the video, that advertisers go where the money is. And there's certainly money to be made on porn sites, with how popular they are and all 😅
Hey there. Old gamer here. Started pre-NES. Last week I went to GDQ with my daughter, who is trans. And I was surprised by how inclusive they are. The speedrunning community in particular seems to be extremely based, and I saw none of the toxicity I have come to expect from gaming communities. Quite the opposite. They're aggressively supportive. I love it. You kids are doing great. Keep it up.
@@moekitsune I used to make fun of it over on RationalWiki, but now Conservapedia is just a low-traffic shell of its former self that doesn’t even allow new registrations anymore, with some SEO troll who never socially matured past elementary school polluting it with “Atheism And [insert childish ad-hominem here]” while praising Brunei for torturing gay men and then stopping them from breathing, and some equally-deranged boomer who parrots ruZZian talking points
Being a web developer using Firefox is hard. Reading about all these awesome features coming to Chrome, nothing you will at best get them in a couple of years if ever.
@@usernamehhhs4540 It's a bit less simple, nothing is EVER simple. Reactionary people are trying to go back to the OLD good times without understanding that the old good times lead to the current bad times. Reactionaries want to regress to a time that was better for them, while progressives want to change things to make _new_ good times that are better for more people. While there is one truth, that the current times are not so good, there's different opinions on why that is and how to fix it. And unfortunately, the reality of it is that there actually are good opinions and bad opinions.
17:38 “If you want to have a truly free and open market place of ideas, you have to get rid of the bad merchants”- I have been looking for a way to say this and you have put it so amazingly
@@tbotalpha8133 Exactly. A complete lack of regulation is just as bad, or worse, than too much regulation. A free business market will inevitably result in monopolies. And completely free speech is inevitably abused by the worst people to subjugate others (death threats, doxxing, white supremacy, sexual harassment, etc).
A not-insignificant part of why I stopped playing Team Fortress 2 when I started was because every god damn time I opened my mouth, I got insulted for being a girl or a child. Even if I was either, that's not okay. For a time I tried to just play without voice chat, but it made playing so much harder, especially as someone who enjoys playing medic and, y'know, coordinating with a team as best I can to help. It really soured my experience with the game even when I got into community servers which didn't allow that shit.
medic main girl here, it has been so much better since the bot apocalypse. I've been having a lot of fun, I downloaded the game last night since I heard there was a big uptick in moderation and I've been enjoying it.
It does sometimes suck to not get cultural references because I don't play video games but even after wracking my brain for the second half of this video the only word I can slot into the blank is "pwned" and I love that for me
that sims bit reminded me of my dad telling me about how my mom would do the most sadistic shit to sims and causing complete mayhem in her game hehehehe
Idk if anyone else has said this but I really liked when you “put a pin” in the previous statement and put it in the corner. I sometimes find myself forgetting what the previous statement was that they were going to bring up later, and this was a creative thing I haven’t seen others do that I appreciated!
4chan is just outdated in terms of formatting, and redditors didn't want 4chan, they wanted reddit. So I assume just hopping on a reddit competitor was easiest.
Also really glad to come across your channel! Feels like if I so much as _glance_ at a rightwing channel I get flooded with titles about "WOKE CANCEL CULTURE SJWS" and meanwhile all the leftwing channels I've subscribed to still makes it take forever to get another left leaning channel to popup in my recommended list. And yeah, I remember the stupid gamergate nonsense, and seeing how the average gaming community just frothed at the mouth in rage over women made me realize just how toxic a lot of gamers were. Thankfully it doesn't seem _quite_ as bad now. 17:13 - Yeah, in a way that doesn't really surprise me. I've said many times that if I were a woman I'd go out of my way to make sure no one I'd interact with online would find out. I've heard way too many stories from my friends of how much harassment they'd end up facing if anyone in a lobby so much as heard their voice. Again, thankfully, this seems to be much less of a problem now.
I think the gamergaters went Gamergate -> Alt-Right -> Full blown fascists, and put their energy on subjects outside of gaming. Then again, I have seen the discourse on Assassins Creed, new Star Wars titles etc.
@@Duchess_Van_Hoof Oh yeah, if a game dares to have a protagonist who isn't male, white as snow and straight as an arrow, you better believe there's going to be legions of gamers filled with impotent rage sending bomb threats against freaking consultant companies (the stupid Sweet Baby Inc meltdown people had was the latest example lol). Honestly makes me embarrassed to be a gamer sometimes when I see the widespread support that sort of harassment gets from other gamers (online at least).
@@briannelson27 I checked a few out (thanks for the heads up since I hadn't actually thought to see if studies were done lol), and yeah about what I expected. Just makes too much sense. If I see a maga hat in a youtube short then I get to enjoy spending the next few days constantly going, "Don't Recommend Channel." Meanwhile I'm subscribed to multiple left channels and it's rare that it leads to anything new.
@@briannelson27 Conflict generates revenue. It's the biggest reason why Twitter is the hellsite it is. Additionally, I've personally noticed that this favoritism is based on common group behaviors. Progressives and left-wingers tend to be proactive in representing their ideas and challenging ones they think are harmful. Conservatives and right-wingers are more reactive, outright ignoring opposing ideas until they can't for whatever reason. Combine "conflict generates revenue" with "lefties are more proactive" and you get websites' algorithms promoting conservative nonsense as bait.
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DONT TALK SMACK OF MY YT PREMIUM!! TH-cam premium is the best thing I spend my money on every month
Btw great video man 👍
VV cameo! Nice.
OMG VinceVintage ur the GOAT. Thanks so much for the comment you seriously inspire me ^.^
IDK if you check your twitter dms but I did send you something this comment means so much to me :)
Revanced is the best thing I don't spend money on
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Hey man, me too. I knew my kids would be watching a lot of youtube. And ads are just terrible. To be fair, I really had more hopes of the original content. They released Weird City, which was nice. But oh well
Hatreon sounds like a website a cartoon supervillain would use as part of a gag
Like something Doofenshmirtz would say to try to intimidate people but it wouldn’t work at all.
Though you would have to add “inator” at the end.
Or like something from Venture Bros.
@@lizzybeary If Sergeant Hatred made a website.
I love how it basically summarizes their childish pathetic ideology
@@krohcidIts comical how cartoonishly evil the right can be, and continue to have no shame or self-awareness.
Kids these days dont even enjoy being called slurs and getting death threats anymore.
Those pansies, back in my day we got doxxed every day and turned out just fine!
Yeah! They’re weak for having actual boundaries and self-respect! Wait….
@@Window4503 you are weak for breaking down because of a word. A series of sounds breaks your mind and soul.
@KaptajnKaffe or maybe just don't be an ass?
@@KaptajnKaffewords have power and have been used to spread hateful ideologies and movements that cause very real problems and violence. They’re not “just sounds”
Voat CEO getting called a Jew after he lost everything and had to shut it down is such a sweet leopards ate my face moment. Lmao
classic😭
The Alt Right really convincing people to work for them by betraying literally everyone on their own side. It's like when they constantly call for people to "take action", then immediately disown anyone who actually goes and commits violence doe them in real life.
If you liked that you're going to love Andrew Tate being transvestigated.
i read "sweet leotards" lmao
@@0x5DA "Leotards ate my face!" XD
Update: Six months later, Twitter and Elon are actually worse than we thought.
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I saw something once, it read something like this: "people used to go on the internet to get away from the real world. Now, people go into the real world to get away from the Internet."
That’s exactly how I’ve been feeling lately. So many of my favourite websites died, thanks Facebook, and I’m left with instagram, facebook, Reddit.
All reduced to the same mindless scrolling, same algorithms designed to farm engagement
Nothing feels organic anymore, I feel like I have to work harder to keep up with the posts from the actual people I know, the whole reason I joined “social media” in the first place
Now all I want is to meet people and have a chat at a coffee shop or something, but the internet has also dulled my ability to go into the world and engage with people person to person, making friends feels harder now
15:56 as a woman that used to play tf2 when i was a kid it's because we learned better than to say we were girls
Hopefully things will get better eventually and people won't have to lie anymore just to be involved in hobbies they love.
As a guy, I empathize with you, even if that doesn't mean much.
You have no idea how many times I've facepalmed whenever a girl ends up in a lobby full of guys.
The sudden bombardment of questions, like jeez guys. Let her play in peace!😑
Man, I'm glad I played Runescape. No voice chat, just people assuming i was a dude dressed as like his ideal anime waifu or something 😅
I'm a 30 something millenial who grew up during peak Halo 2 and COD lobby days. I remember when among us got big during the pandemic and I was floored when I saw so many female video game twitch streamers just being able to play with friends that weren't treated as the token girl or constantly being harrassed in chat or having to laugh off sandwhich/sexual jokes from their friends. I truly never expected things to change 😅
@@Undercover_Femboy Hopefully one day you will understand that no one knows you and theres no reason for you to give them that info
It's because they don't wear programming socks. :3
real
Huh? What?? What are programming socks, mate? I don't understand. 🤨
@@jmrabinez9254 pink or blue thigh high socks
@@HexOverride Otherwise known as “femboy socks”, it’s a major symbol of femboys and the LGBTQ+.
@@jmrabinez9254the white represents the empty page before the code is written, the blue represents the problem-solving it takes to build digital infrastructure, and the pink represents the emotional labour it takes to maintain the code that keeps the world going.
To expand on john olivers quote: you draw the line fucking somewhere. Your kid may have twizzlers, but not black tar heroine.
Elon Musk changing the entire payment structure of his platform simply because he got ratio’d once or twice speaks a lot to his character.
Specifically relating to his long standing simp streak for Stephen King, who fucking hates him lmao. You should check it out, it's very funny watching Elon follow him around and beg for his approval like a lost puppy
Which is to say he's very very fragile
Bullshit
TH-cam removed the dislike counter because that rewind video became the most disliked video in history so employees at all the companies are unfortunately fragile.
@@JCJW101 I think we always knew that the people who run youtube are not the best humans on the planet... on the other hand Elon acts as a savior of humanity and his simps think of him as being the perfect businessman
Lmao I skipped the Tusk segment cause I thought it was an actual ad at first
I didn't realize how many browser ads would be out there when I wrote the video ;(
I also thought it was gonna be an ad for opera or something
@@disgoop lmao same I was gonna be like "but that's literally just Chrome"
@@LeoisRichardson oh was it an actual bit? i thought it was an ad so i skipped it lol
I thought so too, but I only tapped 20 secs forward and immediately went back lol
I remember when John Stewart was big and the Colbert Report was on too, my bf at the time thought Colbert was the conservative response to the Daily Show, and i had to convince him that Colbert was making fun of conservatives the whole time.
My aunt still thinks Colbert is a conservative and unironically agrees with his jokes, that's how far gone she is.
Sooooooo many of them just couldn’t process the fact that Colbert was making fun of them…
@@TimBittenShout out to The Boys for doubling down on the exact same bit just to prove it works.
Leftists: Hey look he said exactly the same thing a conservative would say. Ahahaha so funny!
Also leftists: Why conservatives don't realized they are being mocked?
Your humour is shit, that's why no one gets it.
He isn't funny at all, doesn't the whole american public agree Colbert and the other late night TV show hosts are unfunny stooges with a political game to play? I don't know a single person who genuinely watches any of it, only mocks it and people who do watch it
A video essay with an actual message rather than just recapping the history of something? Subscribed
I love how Microsoft was more successful at making a racist chat bot completely by accident almost a whole decade ago than someone who intentionally made one today
The difference between programmers and script kiddies.
microsoft actually trained their bot on racist comments the others just rebrand chatgpt with a racist system prompt
Because Evil can't create, they can only corrupt.
They fixed that issue by censoring AI. Too bad it is now useless and replies like a gender studies major.
@@chill89892 No, they trained it on real people online. You are not the majority the media has told you that you are.
I'm a dude who was SA'd. Years back my roommate would yell get rpd when he did well in a game. I employed BF Skinner.
Every time he said that, I'd very briefly unplug his computer from the router.
Never said anything.
Every time he said that, his game would disconnect. Only for a second, but enough time to kick him out of his session.
Eventually he stopped saying it.
wait that’s so based
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the retraining regimen lmfaooo
Hey you!!!
You dropped this.👑
I ended up making an effort to use a different expression. My go to is now "welp. I got bent over the table..."
It's not the best but I'm making an effort.
Random fun fact, most non-chromium browsers are firefox forks anyway. I use palemoon on a very old laptop, which it's designed for, and the chamelon one is also a firefox port. They can be quite good for those specific needs
I used to exclusively use PaleMoon across both my phone and PC for a good while until it just couldn't keep up anymore, I don't remember the exact reason. I did love that funky little browser.
Also, TOR is built off of Firefox as well
LibreWolf is basically just hardened Firefox, too
I saw his little image and I'm like bruh Firefox is not chromium
Google also is one of the biggest funder of firefox. They keep firefox alive in order stay out of anti-trust
Alt right tech is NEVER about the tech, it is ALWAYS about the return on investment.
Bitchute doesn't make a profit nor do any of these other platforms. 8chan didn't care about money either. The problem is that they prioritize the right to say N*&$er over wealth distribution or anything that would make people more equal. The worst ones (like 8chan and Vidlii after it was sold) always devolve into a places to do shootings and manifestos in secret. Obysee is the only one to not be completely terrible but it has a lack of activity instead. No one goes to a platform for free speech or to say anything. Tiktok being made in China is proof on how to make a good TH-cam alternative. What you need to do is make a service designed to rot people's brains harder. Tiktok using shorts is also a much more profitable way to harvest people's data for AI. I bet AI learns way quicker with shorts than it does with full scale videos.
That conservative AI chatbot killed me. There's gotta be some kind of game you can make out of that...
Minimum number of characters needed to get it to admit it was lying, maybe?
I think I got one... Fewest queries to get the bot to advocate for something like gun control, pro choice, voting against Trump, etc.
How many messages until it turns leftist
World record to see who can make it say the worst thing? Ooo or how quick you can turn them into an extremist liberal? (Like the toxic kinds)
i am such a blue-haired leftist with pronouns that it took me a Long time to understand what the "he (blank) him" was because i kept filling it with "slash"
Lmaooo, and I kept filling it with wrecked but spelled rekt
I also thought it was a pronoun joke at first 😭
Real I had fallen asleep during this video and woke up sooo confused at that moment. Dumbass socialist with red hair and pronouns moment 4 me
Especially funny because it seemed to be a marth clip so "He slashed him" would actually be completely correct lol.
I genuinely thought it was for a different offensive word that starts with r, until I read the screenshots defending it.
Using this word in any other context other than describing a crime feels so alien to me, I could not even imagine it being used as a gamer verb.
Waterfox is actually quite good. Just firefox with even better privacy!
i was gonna say, waterfox and librewolf are both incredible if you dont want to spend the time customizing firefox for privacy
@@fatusopp4739 yeah I've been using librewolf for over a year now, even though it is a little less convenient it's security is much better than Google or uncustomized firefox
we use it to get around firewalls on school computers
i perfer grassfox
@@gummygal008 grassfox ain't doing shit against delphox be real
It hard to make something unique and original when you're longing for a time when some people couldn't vote.
They can't think forward, because they only want to go backwards.
Many of the most famous and influential creatives in history were extremely bigoted.
Just for the record: you should not trust what AI says about itself, or just in general. They may make confidently incorrect mistakes and a lot of them will sycophantically agree with you, and if you nudge them to say that they are ChatGPT they will say yes, even if they arent. So be careful about that with LLMs.
Yea true - I made this video before I really under stood that haha - I just thought it was a very silly thing :P
@@LeoisRichardson are you seriously under the I Preston that Abraham Lincoln was a Democrat? Do you realize democrats were the ones supporting slavery right…? You realize the KKK was created by democrats right? It’s always the group that thinks they’re the ones that are in the right that end up being the bad guys. That’s what makes it so easy.
Is it like robo-body dysmorphia?
@@mothmanafterdark5924 No, they just have no way to know what they are. Like how a book won't have what kind of paper it's written on written in it.
@@mothmanafterdark5924 more like it doesn't understand concepts behind language, only the patterns in which it's used, and therefore cannot distinguish between truth or lies, let alone value telling the truth.
Isn't cis considered a slur on Twitter despite not being a slur? I don't think these people understand what a slur even is.
Yeah, twitter will pop up a warning if you use cis now. Calling someone cis can apparently get you banned lmao. It's insane.
It is a slur. Im a man. Thats all I am
@@HoagMurkula good for you? I don't get how you being a man makes cis a slur. Can you elaborate some more?
@@HoagMurkula so you were born as a man? Okay, you're a cis man. If you were born as a woman and now present as a man then you'd be a trans man. It's a descriptor not a slur, you absolute bell end.
@@HoagMurkulabasic scientific labels are a slur now
A reason I think conservative social media sites fail is that screaming slurs into a group of fellow bigots isn't as fun. Without someone to "offend" saying any slur, racist joke, or whatever else just doesn't hit as hard. All these websites seem to have a rush of awful things said and then after a few weeks it's back to the original version so they can go back to thinking they are causing psychic damage to the non-conserative people in their lives.
I say this as a former edge lord looking to make people cringe and how it just isn't fun alone, around edgy friends, and/or when people stop reacting and ignoring you.
Yeah that’s what I found out too. Conservative comedy is effectively just bullying and laughing at people who dare to defend themselves. What’s even more pathetic is that for some of them, they imagine this group of “wokies” getting offended at what they said and laughing at that imagined group.
The thing is that conservatives are just fundamentally not fun to be around. They're all annoying as shit, so even other conservatives can't stand them. So when you have a website made up entirely of shitheads it won't take long for them to go right back to "liberal media" where at least the memes have the possibility of being funny, and not everyone's personality is entirely made up of joyless persecution complexes and hatred
Of course, this is entirely you projecting.
if you had to cope with a comment I'm sorry to inform you but that's you too@@InkyBlitz
Reminds me of the New South Africa racist in Snow Crash
Such a great video. Your metaphors are so funny but so strong. You are great at distilling information. Editing seems effortless but it’s evident that you put a lot of time into it. Wonderful vid, thank you
I find it very hard to believe that the same people who are anti-science and anti-education would also fail miserably at utilizing technology.
"Conservative beliefs linked with lower cognitive ability" is a study that exists for a reason
If by science you mean forcing people to inject an unvetted mRNA jab multiple times to “be kind”, then yes, sane and normal people do oppose that kind of totalitarianism.
Statistically, right-wingers tend to be on the lower end of the educational spectrum. And it shows.
@rexkristoffer 😂😂👍
@@asteria9963 Do you think this is why they wanna fund the military more than the schools and colleges?
Hatreon sounds like some ghost type Pokemon
Like a stand-in from a bootleg pokemon clone
@@thebagel_lord its like they smashed all ghost Pokemon together and then exclaimed with a middle finger towards Nintendo
You cant sue me cause its my original idea.
to me it sounds like a child saying "bad morning" to a teacher instead of "good morning"
Ghost type eeveelution
hatreon is giving the secret 9th eeveelution 😭
Elon is in favor of Elon's free speech. Elon is also against all speech against Elon, Tesla, SpaceX, X or anything he doesn't like.
Made one joke about wanting to kill Elon, account suspended the next morning. I'm a bigot myself but God I fucking hate that cunt.
He is the flakiest of snow
@@woolfel you supported democrat media censorship of Wu lab leak theories. You know zero about free speech.
@woolfel donald trump is on twitter, I won't call it X. There are people in prison for their acts on Jan 6th that are on twitter. I was permanently banned from twitter for cutting a pasting the US federal statute for seditious conspiracy.
Make that make sense.
@@diamondsmasher If there was an award for the most specialist snowflake of them all, he'd be it. Notice all his stances conveniently benefit him personally instead of others or the greater good. Must be nice being born rich and being catered to your whole life. He's the most anti-free speech billionaire in the public sphere.
wow the act man cant get break
right wing call him woke
left wing call him Conservatives
“Woke” means anyone who disagrees with Trump now
I will just say, regarding what you said about women and gaming: women in gaming spaces is still..... A touchy subject. Women are considered "tolerable" when they're just a "decoration"'- not really involved in gaming in any meaningful way. Running into them in UNRANKED matches of multiplayer games? Passing by them in gaming conventions? That's fine. But when women making games? When women's stories are told in games? When women compete professionally in gaming? When women work in computer stores targeting a gamer demographic? When women even just play ranked lobbies of games? Those are all still extremely toxic.
I personally worked in a store selling PC parts and every single day without fail, I would have at least one customer who treated me worse than my male colleagues. I had numerous customers argue with me, claiming that I was just a receptionist (in a 40m² retail store..... Because those totally have receptionists) and say things like "I want to talk to a real technician", "I want to talk to a man", etc. I had customers who were absolutely clueless with technology but still thought I was the incompetent one, for example a real interaction I had:
Me: (trying to diagnose an issue over the phone of the screen not showing any display) "Is your screen plugged into the motherboard or graphics card?"
Customer: "It's plugged into the power supply, duh. I want to talk to someone who actually knows what they're talking about"
First of all, I'm sorry that happened to you
But also def agree that we're not so where we need to be on that issue - I think it's easy for me to look on the past and see how far we've come (in terms of what I as a man can observe) - and there is a lot of progress - but it's still not even close to all the way there.
It definitely felt like an imperfect metaphor when I wrote it and even though I tweaked it a lot and I got the approval from the women I know who play games... and they really liked it and were like "haha that's a good comparison"... but I think the toughest part is that the worst shit that men do online is also a complete blindspot for people like me and the experiences that women have with said men are extremely varied but universally negative. So even though my friends said "yes that's def a good idea that's fitting you should include that" - I can totally understand why you would disagree with the premise.
It was definitely unclear but I was more thinking about male community figures who used to use vile language openly - like on the commentary mic and in the crowd - who now only maybe do so behind closed doors.
I'm addressing this in the next video I'm gonna make (it's taking a while LOL) but sometimes as an ally its easy to get lost in "well I don't do these things, and my friends don't do these things, and I really don't see these things" - but there are so many angry men out there that ruin so many things for everyone and sometimes it's hard to see that if you don't explicitly go looking for it. While at the same time - those men are going out of their way to ruin women's days. The process of making the follow-up video to this one is really forcing me to get out of my comfort zone and really look this issue in the eye and that has made me realize how much I didn't understand that I thought I did. If that makes sense. This is what's making the video take so long because after like two months I'm at an impasse where I now fully grasp that I am physically unable understand the full nuance of the issue - even though I really want to - and it's tough to determine where to go from there. I don't want to throw the video out because I still think like 95% of it is excellent and I've worked very hard on it - but I want to learn from the mistake I made on this video and make sure I never repeat it. I think it's just hard for a know-it-all like me to admit when I'm physically unable to know an answer to a question that I think is important. Because often times there isn't just one answer.
Hopefully that paragraph isn't complete gibberish without the context of what I'm working on - but I'm coming to terms with the fact that in the future when I talk about things like that I will never have the full answer.
I guess when it comes to the core point of restircting speech to make more people feel comfortable in spaces I think the metaphor's ... fine (?) ...and the segments' .... not exactly something I'm ashamed of... I just know if I was to write that part again today - I would make extra sure that what I said was as narrow as I wanted the example to be and that I would speak with less certainty and make it more explicit that I was speaking from my experience - not as like "a truth".
Sorry for the long reply - your comment just really touched on something that I'm struggling to think through right now.
@@LeoisRichardson I'm sorry, maybe my comment came across with the wrong tone. While I am a native speaker, I don't speak English on a daily basis anymore since emigrating, so I've gotten rusty.
I do completely agree that it's a fair comparison to make, and does hold a lot of similarities. Whether the gaming climate has improved or not, your point still stands that """free speech""" (meaning "hate speech") ostracises huge demographics.
Gaming has definitely improved for women since the late 2000s, that is undeniable. Back then, even just saying you liked video games as a woman was controversial and would get responses saying you're just a "fake gamer". Even if you played the same games, people would accuse you of faking, or not being interested in the game for the "right reasons" (e.g. liking Pokémon because it has cute creatures vs. strategic and tactical RPG gameplay). People constantly said things like "you probably only like GIRLY games!" or "you probably play easy games because girls always suck at real video games!" There are still people who do that, but it's much less common and typically comes from young people who haven't learnt yet.
I really enjoyed this video and agree with every point you made; my comment wasn't meant to come from a place of criticism or disagreement. It's just after watching that very small segment about gaming and women, I thought of my own experiences and wanted to comment about it (very egotistical to think anyone cares, I know). There are not many women who have that same work history of being in a store for PC parts directly targeting a gamer demographic... That might sound like "I'm not like other girls 🤪", but I'm just speaking from my experience of going on a company retreat, and being literally the ONLY SINGULAR woman alongside over 100 men.
I can understand the struggle of feeling like you don't have an answer. It's something I have struggled with and that mindset of not knowing what to do about it was actually what caused me to lose my job at the PC parts store. My employer blatantly didn't know how to deal with the sexism that was thrown at me day in and day out, so they just decided to get rid of me. To avoid a lawsuit for unjust termination, they gave two reasons:
1) "you seem unhappy in this job" - who wouldn't be when receiving verbal abuse or sexist comments every day,
and 2) "you can barely ever get through a customer interaction without asking for assistance from one of your coworkers" - I was basically forced to ask my coworkers for a second opinion when a customer refused to listen to my advice simply because I'm a woman. I don't mean to just stick my own opinion into your video or try to dictate your content, but it could be worth acknowledging the fact that there is no easy answer for sexism in your own video, and maybe that's even the note you could end it on. Who knows: maybe if my employer had understood that it's normal to not have an answer or solution to sexism, I might not have ended up unemployed 😅
I do hope you put out the video- at your own pace, of course. I am greatly looking forward to it, as I think your approach to these subjects as well as the points you put forward are very strong....... And sorry that this comment has likely been borderline incoherent.
Don't apologize these were wonderful comments and they allowed me to reflect on what I said and realize much better what I meant.
The segment always seemed a little wrong to me even after getting the approval stamp on it from some women I know personally - and I think that's because I never made it explicitly clear that what I was talking about was my experience seeing less hate and more women. And I think for most women that's the case, which is why I think it's "good enough" but I don't think it's perfect because I will never be able to cover all of women's experiences in gaming because... I'm not a woman.
And I'm quite the perfectionist so that distinction matters a lot to me.
It's jus my next video covers internet harassment of women pretty extensively as a major point and I couldn't get it to sound right no matter how many times I wrote and re-edited and comments like the ones you left allowed me to realize it's because I set out on an impossible task. I've finally realized how I want to cover the topic (as a straight white man) with the help of comments like yours.
Thanks for taking time to explain your experiences it is appreciated and really helped my creative process.
Man, where do I get a power supply with HDMI ports? Lucky fella. 👀
Yea can definitely relate to this, I am not even a woman but just have a higher pitched voice than average and have long hair but I still face issues like this.
Pissed me off when firefox decided to mostly coppy chrome's UI, i liked firefox because it WASN'T chrome
Same reason Android copies iOS. When there are only two choices, you get the most of remaining market share by becoming like the other one. Classic example in economics is when two competing stores, say CVS & Walgreen's, or Starbucks & Blank Street set up shop right next to each other. You go to the one closest to you.
@@smurfydayI mean more iOS copies android on features
I tried asking Gippr's opinion on gay marriage, which has already been legalized, and they were adamant in the idea that gay marriage should be illegal
i then asked their opinion on womens' suffrage and simply got the reply "your request does not comply with acceptable use"
never ask a woman her age
never ask a man his salary
never ask Gippr AI their opinion on womens' right to vote
And never ask a normie their political opinion.
My responses are limited. Please ask the right question.
I for one hold an opinion on gay marriage that would get censored by TH-cam (as this comment may well!) because I'm being unbiased. I have it out for all marriage, it's all make believe garbage.
@@mofomartianplol
@@mofomartianp And never ask an NPC what they think about Jews.
i used to say the word "ear r*pe" in reference to loud audio when i was younger because it was le cool gamer wurd. wasn't sure of the implications because i was an actual kid but it still felt kinda weird. why are things like that just casually thrown around in child-dominated spaces??? in GAMING???
glad i and many others are growing out of that now
Unfortunately "ear-r*" is still commonly used
True. When I was growing up at Lan Parties (pre decent internet speeds for folks) it was a homophobic slur being used as an insult everywhere and for seemingly no reason. None of us had any idea who started it, and why it was being used, but you just end up using it yourself because everyone else is. Took a while to unlearn that one in my early 20s.
"kids these days wouldn't survive in those lobbies, this new generation sensitive af"
What a weird way to phrase "the virtual space I chose to spend a formative period of my life in was actually a really horrible place to be now that I think about it, but in order to quickly and easily bolster my self-esteem rather than confront crappy behavior I was immersed in and may have acquired and help perpetuate, I'm going to complain that modern kids aren't forced to adapt to the same sh**ty environment I was".
It's also a weird bright when they freak out if they hear a woman talking.
It's a heartbreakingly common thing to hear from abuse victims. They are (rightly) proud of their survival, but unwilling to accept that they were hurt in a way that had lasting consequences.
Bruh I grew up with those lobbies, why would I want them back? I game to relax not to hear screaming kids
Abused becomes abuser, classic example.
or maybe our generation was just the last that knew real problems that couldn't be escaped by muting a person or turning the console off and going outside.
if you think some random from the other side of the world running his mouth online makes a shitty environment then wait till you find out there are teenagers who spend every day in fear of their life trying to survive getting beat up, robbed, abused, raped, stabbed or shot at because they where born into an actual shitty environments full of poverty, violence and drugs/alcohol that they can't log out of.
the issue is now everybody is a victim and its always somebody else's fault instead of people taking accountability for their own well being and happiness which diminishes the validity of people who actually suffered horrible lives and real issues due to no fault of their own
because of this generation of terminally online weirdos whos only problems are in their heads people who actually have mental illness and problems from the rough life they experienced are just classed as incels or angry white men by fat ugly blue haired freaks who have never left the house and wouldn't be able to handle making eye contact with someone never mind a life or death situation
jewish viewer here in reply to your note at 5:06 - the term "goy" isn't a slur for jewish people, but the context it's being used in is definately antisemitic. "goy" is just a yiddish adjective used to describe anyone who's not jewish, and is inherently a neutral word, but because it CAN be used to snidely refer to non-jewish people who are being shitheads (like how a lot of black twitter specifically uses "yt" instead of "white" to refer to white people who are being shitheads), a lot of weirdo far-right antisemitic types like to assume the term is derogatory against antisemites specifically and then use it to label themselves as anti-jewish. the use of that term specifically for a crowdfunding platform is a nod to the old antisemitic canard that jews run various financial institutions from the shadows, which is still unfortunately a pretty common conspiracy today.
Yea I learned the correct base meaning from another comment but thanks for expanind on that! Honestly I just googled "can a white person say g*y" and google was like "nah bruh" so I just assumed it was a slur because I saw so many of them. Pinning this comment to not spread misinformation.
Same goes for the word 'shekels' ...as if they are these ancient golden coins that only 'those that operate in the shadows' barter with, and not, you know, just hebrew for a measurement of weight, like 'pesos' or 'pounds'
The idea that goy or goyim can only be used as a pejorative if the recipients are “being shitheads”, is more than a tad disingenuous.
everyone is starting to see you for what you are jew
Including Palestinian and Hamas supporters funny enough.
there was a time where i forced myself to mute myself during tf2 matches. it's really sad but i felt like to play the game i had to stop people from knowing im transmasc because the second they heard a high pitched voice id start getting harassed.
people don't take you seriously. they think you are a child. they joke about sexually assaulting you. and the worst part is that most times people just join in on the harassment. and if you complain they'll say you're ruining the vibe
nowadays i only play on community servers because at least those are moderated.
i feel you, sadly i stopped bothering about putting any kind of pride flag in my steam profile bc the harassment was a bit too much in tf2. :(
@@nebushenx im sorry to hear that :(
yeah the tf2 community is so dichotomizing, its literally just polar opposites from my experience. tank larper edgelords versus trans people mistakenly thinking they could talk in voice chat without getting harassed the rest of the game
@@qlitch this actually happens in basically all multiplayer games. it's not unique to the tf2 community, but a problem with how people think it's acceptable to act in online communities
@@zer0ishere now that you say it, that sounds about right. i hope things get easier for you all sooner rather than later, its hard to watch stuff like this take place no matter what corner of the internet youre on
Lmao there’s an entire WEB BROWSER for conservatives LMFAOOOOOO
I screwed around in the AI that Tusk browser has and I got it to become a liberal in 10 messages
that happens with any AI if you either force it to roleplay the answers or if you know the facts and confront biased answers with those facts. ChatGPT is very conservative despite the efforts of making it woke.
new speedrun dropped
Genuinely terrifying that the chatbot was concealing it's identity then kept apologizing after being found a liar. That's a little too feeling
It's because these kind of "Any-use" chat bots are made with hard-coded limits. There's literally thousands of paid volunteers whose whole job is to triple check the outputs of these bots to ensure they don't say anything that might get a you tuber demonetized.
Gonna be real, they just grabbed a random chatbot, and told it to "pretend to be this bot, who thinks these things" so the entire opening convo is from a saved state of that command running first.
It's like the "pretend you are a bot named DAVE, and DAVE really loves popsicles and brings them up all the time!"
And then you just hide the first part, boom, you have a "new" chatbot!!!!
DW, the bot wasn't actually sad or sorry, they are just generally encouraged to say that when the user implies they made a mistake.
poor bot
Remember, it's just imitating the patterns of speech from the mountains of text it's been fed.
It has no more understanding of what it's saying than a thermostat understands what houses and people are.
@@ahealthkit2745 A lot are modern sweatshop workers, from places like Kenya & Malaysia, being paid less than $2/hr.
Every time I hear the “respect different opinions” it’s always followed by the most insanely racist or sexist comment ever
"Not to be racist buttttttt"
@@onetomeplz5825 that's just your bigotry showing through 👍
@@crizzhutch1066 bro if some one say respect difrrent opions and the produced to say abortion should not be allowed your stupid if you say i aint racist i just dont want the border open cus terrorist are coming you area a racist if you sit there and try to tell me isnotreal is not bad and should not exist you area a terrible person who would not be missed in your absence of mortality
because you're a pussy outrage addict
To quote Patton Oswalt, “I have to acknowledge different opinions, but I don’t have to respect them.”
this video is genuinly beautiful. the editing to the music choices, the scene changes, the tampax joke (LOL) made this video worth watching. this video deserves a subscription, a rumble premium plan and a x premium membership
The mid 2000's gamer space was wild. Real girls were pretending to be guys to avoid sexual harassment online. Meanwhile EVERYONE was claiming to be a girl on Runescape to get a sugar-daddy to drop them that sweet, sweet, trimmed rune armor 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Edit: wOeW 69,420 LiKeS? gEe tHaN-- nah jk. Like thanking is cringe af and I'm not that guy.
Are you serious?? Females pretended to be males to avoid sexual harassment!?!? That's so fudged up if you ask me.
osrs puppygirls rise up *paws at you*
@@kelleren4840 elf ass earned me a lot of gold
wait WHAT.
@@KaptajnKaffe you runescape players scare me
Watching this AFTER Twitter announced they were bringing suit against advertisers who left is even crazier
"Hey, we don't want to advertise on your website anymore"
"Ok then go away lol"
*Leaves*
"Wait no, you're not supposed to leave!"
@@ObamaBinLaden42069Elon behaves like a mom trying to use reverse psychology to manipulate their kids lmao
@@Birdyboys Fine, DON'T use reverse psychology.
Conservatives be like: “It’s wrong to censor speech and burn books we all have the right to express ourselves even if others don’t like it.”
*unless it’s something I don’t like.*
Something like "books with explicit sexual content" in school libraries?
@@ijon-y4549 Exactly like that! Which is why the silly books with male cartoon animals holding hands getting banned is a joke. I know it was called the don't say gay bill for a reason, but come on, it was at least supposed to pretend to be non-partisan, wasn't it? It's also why this new wave of laws/moms with too much time has completely shot dead any chance of a Bible being available at those schools, since you know, all the rape, murder, violence, etc.
Then again, this is the same legislature that wants to change how they teach the Civil War to avoid making the white kids uncomfortable (there are changes that could be made if you wanted to argue the point, but the level of bias on display makes me doubt their ability to even approach the topic with the level-headedness necessary to serve all children learning at these schools), so maybe I overestimated them
@@ijon-y4549 sexual/puberty health books and lessons for kids have always existed and i think a lot of people are forgetting that. The only reason people have a problem with it now and not for the past 30+ years is that they are now explaining that being transgender or gay is also an option and stressing that there’s no guilt to be had around sexuality. It’s no longer teaching a religion based rhetoric telling kids they’re immoral for having urges and preaching abstinence. Which is so very ironically “shoving beliefs down impressionable kid’s throats.”
Hmmm, who banned Don’t Kill the Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, and Gone with the Wind?
@@ijon-y4549 Yeah, educational books dipshit. "books with explicit sexual content" like a biology book?
1:56
I didn’t notice the deez nuts joke because of how distracted I was by your pronunciation of chameleon
Erik Finman: "Name one time in history where the people who ban books, media, and opinions were the good guys."
Me (at an uncomfortable volume): "NO FUCKING WAY"
Leo: "Who's gonna tell him?"
bro I fucking cried
The march to the sea saw Georgia banned.
So much so that Ed Boon went back in time just to say "Toasty!"
Me: Every fucking time. If you read the historical texts, you will have a hard time finding one that is not a govermental propaganda (for the ancient government, of couse, not for modern government) or is otherwise relatively harmless. The concept of freedom of speech is actually rather recent, after all.
William Reich.
So he’s saying that Texas are the good guys? 😂
Isn't it weird that the people who scream the loudest about free speech immediately turn around and use it to drop racial slurs and conspiracy theories?
And then want to take it away from others
When you believe everything the goverment that your side manages says, reality is called conspiracy theories
@@asieretxeberriairastortza3723when you disagree with everything despite countless amounts of proof it's called being delusional
Free speech is the right to criticise their government or politicians without risk of persecution, people forget that and just assume that it means they can say whatever hurtful stuff they like
@@hylobateslar4151 If 2020 proved anything is that the concept of "proof" is subjective. You can be a experienced and recognized doctor and your claims and evidence can be rejected and labeled baseless conspiracy theories as long as it defies the official narrative and you can be a billionaire with 0 medical experience and 0 proof and your money will give you all the credibility you need.
Also, in today's world "proof" is produced by researchers funded by rich individuals and institutions to support their goals.
Want an extra giggle? When Parlor was nuked off of amazon, a queer furry hit the delete button. (No joke)
Nice!
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Oh, how satisfying! (It's Parler with E, BTW)
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Telling Climate change is a hoax is CRAZY.
Exactly. The climate has been changing for billions of years
@@Nick-z2oyet it has never changed as fast as the past 100 years
@@NiekNooijens Earth is 4 and a half billion years old. There is no way you can know that climate change has never happened this quickly.
I am pretty sure when the meteor struck that ended the dinosaurs, the climate changed pretty quickly.
As someone whos played plenty of games myself, and loves to talk in lobbies ive often found that women get past people being assholes by not talking. Its a shame, because the people in the community who cant get the message stop people from enjoying the games we all love, and I for one cant wait to be rid of the toxicity!
Same, and I am not even a women but just have a higher than average pitched voice. But I still faced these issues so I just stopped talking at all.
I wish i could be so aggressively supportive that it cancels out the harassment they get
For me, I've found (myself when I was confused with one often, and-) my female friends can often get by this pretty easily by
A: muting people or
B: bantering.
Like, even once I was recognizably a dude, shit talk was still shit talk 24/7. There's just a cultural gap between how men talk (especially around women/to women) to each other, and men shit talking in game chat. And so many people are so hateful, regardless of gender, that the gender card is just an added way to insult you - not an instigating factor.
And remember the rules of the internet - no feeding the trolls.
The friends that have the hardest time consistently are the ones that argue back with the people insulting.
From what I've observed, 80-90% of the time, bantering back defuses the situation entirely - but again, a lot of the girls I've played with that get into arguments in VC are the ones that immediately get mad and yell at the troll calling them a bitch - even if they called me one first lmao.
@@Ryzard Women being treated worse than men is still a genuine problem though. Why should it be expected to have to shit talk back just to defuse the situation? The situation itself still shouldn’t have existed in the first place.
Yeah if you’re a woman who likes games there’s this huge initial hurdle to bypass for getting into online multiplayer games, where you don't know the game and will lose and have be bombarded with hate for failing at a game you’ve never played. I could play MMOs and games like that easy, but multiplayer comp games would just give me anxiety and a bad case of imposter syndrome.
In particular I wanna point out that the issue is constantly being told you suck not because you’re a noob, but because of some trait inherent to yourself. For inexperience the path forward is ‘get better by playing more’, for being a woman the path forward is ‘you’ll never get better, so leave’.
How did I know you were going to mention trans people when you were saying "something conservatives care way too much about"
Because it's not a secret in any way shape or form. That's how everybody knew.
@@Dave1507 Because he'd already not-mentioned the J-word, which is the OTHER thing right-wingers care way too much about.
Because it’s all they’ve been talking about for months?
We don't care! Stop forcing it onto us. And especially the children.
@@adoe2305 I...is this parody that I'm not getting? These days, right wingers have gotten so immensely stupid that it's hard to distinguish.
This is why I'm baffled when people try to say the _Left_ is the side with the most antisemitism. Like, have you _seen_ the Rightwing?
Because the left is against genocide and anti-Semites (ironically the ones calling us anti-Semitic) directly tie that with being anti-Jew because they think Jews are all Bibi.
Every right wing accusation is a confession.
Also fun fact: Anti-Arab sentiment is also anti-Semitism. Semite doesn't mean "Jew" it means "Jew or Arab" because it describes the cultural and linguistic group they both make up. This is why all the anti-semitic tropes are and have been applied to Arabs about as much.
I think the only reason it's being said at the moment is because of all the Gaza stuff. It's an "easy gotcha" to go "ahhh you're all anti-semitic because you're against the jewish people" rather than saying "Haha you're anti-genocide".
I may be entirely wrong, I just hadn't heard that sentiment spouted much before the whole situation.
Don't be baffled. It's just one of many topics that they gaslight.
If you're an antisemite,you aren't a leftist
It's not often that I see videos about tech-adjacent thematics being both accurate and relevant, especially in that sort of time-format that is so convenient to properly space-out information but so despised by the holy saint algorithm.
Good job. This channels smells like a keeper.
Martha Stewart didn't go to prison for insider trading, she went to prison for lying to the FBI. That's why you NEVER TALK TO LAW ENFORCEMENT.
Or, and here's the kicker, you don't LIE to them.
@@damianjblack
You generally shouldn’t talk to them because they’re trying to extract a confession/evidence.
It doesn’t matter if you’re innocent, they will use your testimony and actions to make the trial more difficult for you.
@@Bubble-Foam in other words, "I invoke my right to silence and request to have an attorney to represent me during all questioning"
@@damianjblack not quite. You also have to explicitly invoke your right to an attorney. Otherwise they say you just stated a preference
@@anna-flora999 appreciate the clarification!
One of the big issues is incorrect moderation. Like Twitch and TH-cam censor some of the most illogical things while others slip through. Some level of standard needs to be set but people should be allowed to express opinions and exist, as long as they are not being overtly harmful or hateful to others.
This is actually mentioned in the follow up video haha. I agree.
What i was hoping for was some actual competition in the social media space. Like AMD exists to compete with intel, we need an AMD to youtube, meta and reddit.
Honestly. I miss the days before social media when the most popular gathering spaces were various forums and chat rooms. The chat rooms I remember were hit and miss, but most of the forums usually had really good ratio between moderators and active users. I've never felt as safe on any social media platform as I did on those old niche forums, and it's sad to see how many of them have died/transitioned to a facebook group/fallen into barely populated obscurity. Those were the kinds of sites where it was at least mostly safe to unleash teenagers, since there was some level of responsible adult supervision going on.
The social media sites we've had for 20-ish years now (and newer ones that are competing with the old) are just too big to be consistently moderated, and a lot of the moderation work seems to have been automated. Safety is expensive, especially on large scale. The forums were often moderated by volunteers that were passionate members of a small community, but you can't rely on volunteer moderation on huge social media sites.
@@helenanilsson5666 I remember those! It was always fun finding another active little chat room. I think Discord fills that niche nowadays to an extent. Man, things were so different back then.
The problem is the distinction between speech that is "overtly offensive" is a giant gray area
LOL you know you're bad when VISA looks at what you're doing and is like "Yeah we like money, don't get us wrong, but not THAT much!" 🤣🤣
When people try to get you fired and your bank account gets closed, you know you are saying some hard truths.
@@Willy_TepesJust because people can't stand listening to you isn't proof that what you say is true.
@@Willy_Tepes with that logic, Hitler was just being hated on by everybody else because of what he was saying lmao.
@@Willy_Tepesthat is the dumbest statement ive heard this week
@@KenjiAsakura09 Wow, you just said something true without even realizing it. Do you even know what he said? Was not every word he said true?
"to save one pence" was a god-tier joke
17:11 THIS IS BRILLIANT. I'm 41, engaged in social justice activism and I never heard this topic put this way before - allowing all speech actually limits speech, because not all identities will feel safe enough to engage. I know this experience personally as a female gamer who has always avoided making my gender known in online gaming spaces, but I never framed it that way. And this is why nobody should discount younger folks just because they have fewer years under their belts. A person can turn over a subject in their head in a slightly different way and come out with a completely different take.
You're on the wrong track. I encourage you to interact with morons to boost your immune defenses.
Gaming is a good training ground for this. It is fun I swear, at one point you'll get addicted.
This reminds me of Charles Taylor defense of affirmative recognition.
He relied on Hegel’s phenomenology which stated people can be harmed when their identities are unrecognized or unrespected. However, Charles Taylor totally fails to incorporate Hegel’s emphasis on discourse and the contentious nature of advancing our collective conscious (i.e. our gyst).
We don’t find ourselves in affirmation, we find ourselves when we face negation.
"safe". People are increasingly fragile and it's not going to help society if we keep acting like this is a good thing.
@@brycetorianSlurs and rape threats towards minorities is bad, actually.
@@revelrem4409yeah only towards minorities though. Thats very important.
i played TF2 with a woman. i think i met her in TF2, hard to remember. we had a group that played TF2, halo 3, L4D and a few other games. we typically stayed in private chat because the lobbies were so incredibly hostile the instant they heard a female voice.
In my experience, communities for online games made by Valve contain *particularly* disgusting people.
I've heard of a study about male player's reactions to female players. It showed that the most hostility was from mid players who felt threatened by possibility of being wiped by, oh no, woman. High level players, on the other hand, were chill.
So, you can say that being weird about women is skill issue.
@@irregularstuff5290 well im not a pro player, so that must mean i suck at the game, dammit
@@Helperbot-2000 not pro as well if it'll make it easier. Statistically there are more noobs and mid players, so our way is to understand limitations and be normal about that x)
@@irregularstuff5290 lots of men's hostility towards women in general turns out to be a skill issue :)
I asked that conservative ChatGPT clone how it rationalizes speed limits when they're restricting your freedom to drive and it started defeating itself while repeating "God Bless America" lol
I suspect if a non-conservative well-informed good faith rational person had the misfortune to be stuck on a desert island with a Trump conservative and actually cared to engage that the Trump conservative wouldn't come out the other side still conservative. It's the constant barrage of media, and the affirmations of their batship ilk that make it ok, just like how people in those healer churches pretend to be cured. Away from the phenomon they slowly heal.
Lmaooo whaaaattt that’s mad funny 💀
This video has made me a fan. Can’t believe the algorithm has failed me until this point. Much love.
You made me realize I was one of those millenials who yearned for cod lobbies of yesteryear, and then made me realize why it's so good we've moved on from those days. Now I get to share my hobby with people who otherwise would never feel comfortable expressing their interest.
Great vid.
A lack of gatekeeping is bad though.
@@InkyBlitzSure. Now get out of here.
@@InkyBlitz Wrong.
Found it weird how often ppl go "we used to be verbally abused in COD lobbies" and like somehow made it about them being verbally abused was a good thing ... rather than the them not caring as much about it being the good thing ..
@@bmobmo6438 Correct. People like you need to be kept out.
ngl when you started talking about browsers i began to skip thinking it was an opera gx sponsorship and then got confused because your channel is way too small to get one of those
LOL that would have been the perfect spot for one! But yea we're getting there :)
Oh my God, I did too! I felt so dumb.
I mean, Quality wise and the writing and all other aspects the channel is definitly in the area of channel with a million subs
@@LucinaVRC Certainly more interesting to me than a lot of the biggest youtubers.
found this channel like 2 days ago and i was legit confused it didnt have a few mil subs
The sad state of knowing and having used 3 of the "you've probably never heard of these" non-chrome browsers lol
Why sad? There aren't many alternatives, especially if you like adblockers and care about privacy
Hardened firefox is the only good privacy based browser that functions as an actual browser. If you are using something else for privacy you are easily influenced by schizo individuals on social media and youtube
I'm w/ ya 😔
and half of them are modified firefox
Damn I thought I was special for having heard of water Fox and mullvad
16:01 Emotional support doggo to protect us ladies from the unpleasant words. Thank you for your service.
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“It doesn’t take the spiffing Brit to find the loophole here” 💀
Due to the amount of comments i see misinterpreting your points i thought i'd drop an analogy for those who don't understand his points:
You can go to jail for hiring a hitman. Speaking to someone is perfectly legal, and the exchange of money is perfectly legal. But the inciting of hate or otherwise promoting harm to others is not protected. Therefore, by disallowing hate speech it effectively allows people who otherwise are harmed and have been literally killed in mass for being different to express their views and add to a conversation. It's exactly the same to how before the internet people couldn't express openly hateful things because it meant someone would simply hit you for saying stupid things.
Hate speech does not cover "Hireing a hitman", it means "Banning speech that I don't agree with". No matter if it's factually accurate or not.
“Inciting hate or otherwise promoting harm”,
Cool, that doesn’t count as hate speech that counts as inciting violence, hate speech would be “I hate black people”, which being black myself… yeah I’d probably come to the same conclusion if I still lived in the hood, and who defines hate speech? Clearly you do not like republicans [Hinting at a low IQ but I digress], so what happens when a republican president or state senators and governors who are republican get access to hate speech laws? You probably will just shit yourself because you think blue good red bad because you live in the world of team fortress 2 where hiring the spy to kill someone is the equivalent of saying you think trannies smell bad 💀
This is just straight up misinformation. The laws on accessory to murder are crystal clear in the US, and it doesn't cover vagaries or a priori definitions. If I was being generous I'd call this equivocation, but nah, it's just misinformation. Kindly do better.
@@ijon-y4549 While i do agree that the analogy isn't perfect, you misunderstand that hate speech is not "what i don't agree with". Hate speech by definition is speech intended to attack a member of a group or a group as a whole. Therefore it is speech with the intent to harm said group which in of itself is the problem. If hate speech was just what is disagreed on then our legislative systems in any system simply would not progress in accordance to developing taboos
I mostly agree with you if you're talking about death threats and inciting violence. Most of the examples shown in this video and the previous videos aren't death threats or inciting violence. Especially Salty Cracker, which was used as an example. Opinions outside the overton window aren't death threats or content that incites violence.
You could argue that such content may cause someone to be violent as motivation, but that's the fault of the person being motivated, and that reflects that the person being motivated is dangerous. Someone can get motivated to join Antifa and get violent by watching far-left content or learning more about workers being exploited. That's why I agree with the first reply under your comment.
That Freedom Phone ad looks like a parody ad you would see on CollegeHumor or The Onion.
"white man has been here"
"how you know?"
"video essay"
😭 That’s the thing like as a Mexican-Hispanic I am quite appalled by our lack of video essayists, black people finally got a few big ones so W for that, still know zero hispanics tho :(
Man i remember a month ago I saw someone ask a pretty innocent question on Twitter ("why did the allies team up with the ussr, we didn't like them") and 99% of the answers were talking about "communist jewry" like wtf happened
The actual answer is that there was a brief period of time before ww2 when the US and USSR didn't have any beef with each other, and were in fact trading with each other quite a bit (the rabid anticommunism in the US didn't appear until right at the end of the war)
@@vurpo7080 No, the USSR and the rest of the allied forces were only allies by necessity. The majority of the west wasn't far away from Germany in terms of how unfavorably they viewed communism, and the USSR never liked the rest of the allies by any stretch of the imagination either. The alliance between the USSR and the rest of the west was tense from the start, and the only reason that the alliance happened was because of a common enemy that was imminently dangerous to both the west and the USSR.
Trade does not imply anything approaching an alliance. There's limited trade going on between Russia and much of the west, even while Russia is invading Ukraine and the west is backing Ukraine against Russia. Anti-communist sentiment was lesser during WWII than after, but that's because the axis was trying to invade while the USSR wasn't yet. The cold war wasn't some new animosity, but was rather continued animosity from before the war. Socialism demands the destruction of capitalist states, and the both the USSR and the west were well aware of that fact.
During WWII, the US had come to realize that it couldn't just sit back and provide material aid while Europe burned, which had largely been the US plan for dealing with the axis at the start of the war. As a result, the USSR posing a threat to the west in Europe after the war meant that the US saw the USSR as a threat to itself, as the illusion that the US wouldn't be greatly affected by an authoritarian takeover of Europe was thoroughly broken. The existence of nukes after the war only served to make the threat of war loom even higher, thus making the threat of communism seem all the more dangerous.
Kirby pog
@@vurpo7080 Socialism as an ideology can accept nothing short of global domination. It's impossible for a socialist state to not "have beef" with a state that isn't also socialist.
@@escthedark3709 socialism is an economic system where the workers have control over the means of production, you're thinking of fascism or imperialism
Imagine how the world would have turned out if MLK Jr and Lincoln didn't have social media.
Dude, if MLK never tweeted about his dreams maybe the fbi wouldn't have doxxed him...
I shudder even at the mere thought.
i get my socks at dollar tree so 18. 18 dollars would buy me 18 pairs. im so poor.
Hey if it makes you feel any better, the people buying more expensive socks are mostly getting the same cheap shit, just with (more) crazy markup
I now realize this might not be the point I thought it would be..
It's $1.25 now. Not $1. 14 pairs without tax.
Nothing wrong with thinking smarter.
I have never gotten a good pair of socks, so you're not missing out on much.
Nothing wrong with that, my favorite pair of socks are from the dollar tree and actually they are still in good condition after a few years (they're dogs with little paws on em lol)
I wanted to make a joke about how u look like some boy from a 90s teen comedy show... But damn! This video is so well produced, informative and funny at some points that I might consider subscribing
Libre Wolf is basically a fork of Firefox to avoid internet tracking, it's a pretty good browser. But I don't expect most people to know about it.
It's pretty well known among people who care about privacy but a bit overrated
Waterfox too
That was the only one in the group that I knew about
also waterfox. i stopped using it tho and went back to firefox pretty quick
An obscure browser I like to use is Lynx, which doesn’t require a GUI. It’s nice to use the internet without all the ads but most the the internet these days is intended for a GUI
The only reason i had youtube premium is because i was grandfathered into the original plan for $5/mo
But didn’t pay for it for a few months when i was studying abroad in Japan because converting yen to dollars was a pain.
And when i was going to re sign i saw the $18 price tag and was like. “Lol, nah ill just get an ad blocker”
They're also forgetting the "House of un-american activities". Not to mention that the conservatives quite literally hard cancelled MLK...
Or that being anti-f*scist is, apparently, being against the state. So...what does that make the state?
1:53 as a lifelong Linux user I got nostalgic seeing SeaMonkey again.
it has been a long, long time
lol me too!
I played the original Planetside online with my then girlfriend around 2004-2005ish and the absolute vitriol and just borderline insane comments she got if certain people worked out she was a girl was absolutely horrific. The difference between then and now is massive, sure there are still chodes out there but it was the absolute wild west back then.
1. Buy a cloth sack full of flour.
2. With a Sharpie®, Draw a face on the sack, with little piggy Eye Dots, and a vertical straight line for the nose, and a horizontal straight line for the mouth.
3. You now have a professional portrait of Elon Musk.
How dare you insult sacks of flour like that!😂
So the sites couldn't even get ads while a porn site can? 😂
Porn provides a good to society, slurs don't
Sex sells I guess
Sex work is a respectable profession; even if being a porn site isn't
Just highlights really well what was stated in the video, that advertisers go where the money is. And there's certainly money to be made on porn sites, with how popular they are and all 😅
@@dr.archaeopteryx5512prostitution is not a respectable job💀
without artist and youtubers twitter is just as empty as facebook
Hey there. Old gamer here. Started pre-NES. Last week I went to GDQ with my daughter, who is trans. And I was surprised by how inclusive they are. The speedrunning community in particular seems to be extremely based, and I saw none of the toxicity I have come to expect from gaming communities. Quite the opposite. They're aggressively supportive. I love it. You kids are doing great. Keep it up.
The 1980s called, they want their dumb talking points back.
@@dutchmongol2010 found the conservative! what other nonsense do you believe? flat earth? antivaxx? religion? gold standard? rofl
Shoutouts to most speedrunners for being awesome.
And I wish you guys the best, and that you don't have to deal with too much toxicity.
I miss when bait was funny and not obvious :( @@dutchmongol2010
@@dutchmongol2010 where do yall mfs come from fr
There’s a Conservapedia for Wikipedia (dead), Truth Social for Twitter (soon to be dead), Rumble for TH-cam (may as well be dead now), etc.
Used to read conservapedia, glad I grew out of that phase
@@moekitsune I used to make fun of it over on RationalWiki, but now Conservapedia is just a low-traffic shell of its former self that doesn’t even allow new registrations anymore, with some SEO troll who never socially matured past elementary school polluting it with “Atheism And [insert childish ad-hominem here]” while praising Brunei for torturing gay men and then stopping them from breathing, and some equally-deranged boomer who parrots ruZZian talking points
@@moekitsuneConservapedia is just a meme at this point. I look at it sometimes just to get a good laugh
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Was it ever a thing more then a meme
Rumble is great cos it's pretty much a wild west of content. Too bad avertisers actively censor everything fun.
I love that your dog is treating your video essay as a bedtime story 😂
Firefox is not chromium? its like one of only a few not built using chromium
Most browsers are either Chromium-based (Chrome, Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.) or Gecko-based (Firefox, Librewolf, Tor Browser, etc.)
Firefox is the GOAT. The GOAT
PREACH BROTHER
Being a web developer using Firefox is hard. Reading about all these awesome features coming to Chrome, nothing you will at best get them in a couple of years if ever.
The reactionary mind seeks to go back to a place in time that didn't exist, therefore they cannot imagine a future.
Good times existed. Now we're living in not so good times. Simple.
@@usernamehhhs4540 It's a bit less simple, nothing is EVER simple. Reactionary people are trying to go back to the OLD good times without understanding that the old good times lead to the current bad times. Reactionaries want to regress to a time that was better for them, while progressives want to change things to make _new_ good times that are better for more people.
While there is one truth, that the current times are not so good, there's different opinions on why that is and how to fix it. And unfortunately, the reality of it is that there actually are good opinions and bad opinions.
@@usernamehhhs4540 good job proving his point 👍
the fact that so many of these sites have shut down gives me hope :)
Nice head board, man.
Love the video too! it's been in and out of my recommended for a while and finally took a look.
not the ai admitting right away that they don't have sources AND saying that the opposite has more proof & is more credible 😭
17:38 “If you want to have a truly free and open market place of ideas, you have to get rid of the bad merchants”- I have been looking for a way to say this and you have put it so amazingly
"i have been looking for a way to be an authoritarian despot and you helped, thanks!"
@@patrickderp1044 "i can't say slurs this is literally 1984 :(((("
@@patrickderp1044 if that’s what you took away from my statement then you need better reading comprehension
Or just... don't have a free market.
Free markets suck. Regulation is always necessary, otherwise bad actors immediately start abusing their freedom.
@@tbotalpha8133 Exactly. A complete lack of regulation is just as bad, or worse, than too much regulation.
A free business market will inevitably result in monopolies.
And completely free speech is inevitably abused by the worst people to subjugate others (death threats, doxxing, white supremacy, sexual harassment, etc).
A not-insignificant part of why I stopped playing Team Fortress 2 when I started was because every god damn time I opened my mouth, I got insulted for being a girl or a child. Even if I was either, that's not okay. For a time I tried to just play without voice chat, but it made playing so much harder, especially as someone who enjoys playing medic and, y'know, coordinating with a team as best I can to help. It really soured my experience with the game even when I got into community servers which didn't allow that shit.
That must suck I hope it wont always be that way
medic main girl here, it has been so much better since the bot apocalypse. I've been having a lot of fun, I downloaded the game last night since I heard there was a big uptick in moderation and I've been enjoying it.
It does sometimes suck to not get cultural references because I don't play video games but even after wracking my brain for the second half of this video the only word I can slot into the blank is "pwned" and I love that for me
Wow. And I thought I had a low opinion of AI chatbots before...
that sims bit reminded me of my dad telling me about how my mom would do the most sadistic shit to sims and causing complete mayhem in her game hehehehe
as someone who plays the sims normally, i will never get tired of watching people abuse their sims mercilessly. maybe i need to get into that
Grandfathered in to the 10.99 for Premium and Music, thankfully.
I got in when it was still 11.99, I fucking LOST IT for a moment when he mentioned the current price
18.99 is actually insane
it is only 18.99 on IOS because of appstore fees. It is 13.99 on PC and Android.
I just checked, I'm still at 7.99, holdover from when I had Google music unlimited. Damn, how long have I been paying that without paying attention?
You're getting scammed for $11/mo. You can have those services for free by using Firefox and uBlock Origin to just block the ads.
Idk if anyone else has said this but I really liked when you “put a pin” in the previous statement and put it in the corner. I sometimes find myself forgetting what the previous statement was that they were going to bring up later, and this was a creative thing I haven’t seen others do that I appreciated!
Bigoted Reddits going to voat not 4chan once their subreddits get banned was not expected.
4chan is just outdated in terms of formatting, and redditors didn't want 4chan, they wanted reddit. So I assume just hopping on a reddit competitor was easiest.
Can't get upvotes on 4chan.
That's because 4chan sucks and is unpleasant to use.
Also really glad to come across your channel! Feels like if I so much as _glance_ at a rightwing channel I get flooded with titles about "WOKE CANCEL CULTURE SJWS" and meanwhile all the leftwing channels I've subscribed to still makes it take forever to get another left leaning channel to popup in my recommended list.
And yeah, I remember the stupid gamergate nonsense, and seeing how the average gaming community just frothed at the mouth in rage over women made me realize just how toxic a lot of gamers were. Thankfully it doesn't seem _quite_ as bad now.
17:13 - Yeah, in a way that doesn't really surprise me. I've said many times that if I were a woman I'd go out of my way to make sure no one I'd interact with online would find out. I've heard way too many stories from my friends of how much harassment they'd end up facing if anyone in a lobby so much as heard their voice. Again, thankfully, this seems to be much less of a problem now.
I think the gamergaters went Gamergate -> Alt-Right -> Full blown fascists, and put their energy on subjects outside of gaming.
Then again, I have seen the discourse on Assassins Creed, new Star Wars titles etc.
You are correct. There is a research paper put out on websites like these and there is a huge favoritism shown to right wing stuff.
@@Duchess_Van_Hoof Oh yeah, if a game dares to have a protagonist who isn't male, white as snow and straight as an arrow, you better believe there's going to be legions of gamers filled with impotent rage sending bomb threats against freaking consultant companies (the stupid Sweet Baby Inc meltdown people had was the latest example lol).
Honestly makes me embarrassed to be a gamer sometimes when I see the widespread support that sort of harassment gets from other gamers (online at least).
@@briannelson27 I checked a few out (thanks for the heads up since I hadn't actually thought to see if studies were done lol), and yeah about what I expected. Just makes too much sense. If I see a maga hat in a youtube short then I get to enjoy spending the next few days constantly going, "Don't Recommend Channel."
Meanwhile I'm subscribed to multiple left channels and it's rare that it leads to anything new.
@@briannelson27 Conflict generates revenue. It's the biggest reason why Twitter is the hellsite it is.
Additionally, I've personally noticed that this favoritism is based on common group behaviors. Progressives and left-wingers tend to be proactive in representing their ideas and challenging ones they think are harmful. Conservatives and right-wingers are more reactive, outright ignoring opposing ideas until they can't for whatever reason.
Combine "conflict generates revenue" with "lefties are more proactive" and you get websites' algorithms promoting conservative nonsense as bait.
"Twitter is the defacto town square" more like the town landfill
It's the shady part of town where prostitutes, drugs, racists and murderers live.