YouTube’s algorithm…I mean yes this is about flat-earthers, and we all like to laugh about them, but something has to be said about the fact that conspiracy theories are spread so easily to impressionable youth at a GLOBAL scale. And its not just flat-earthers, it’s Naziism, it’s anti-Semitism, islamophobia, it’s all the terrible radicalization that is happening. It’s all connected, and it’s so so easy to become radicalized because of YouTubes algorithm.
They do this for just about anything, too. Even if you watch overtly left-wing videos they will recommend hard-right video and conspiracy theorists to you. I got a white supremacist creator recommended to me from watching a Bernie Sanders interview.
They run hard-right ads over Left-wing creators now, too. Over a Majority Report video I got an ad for an “anti-PC,” pro-Trump news network. LGBTQ creators I watch are consistently getting gay conversion therapy ads played over them.
The Right loves to scream censorship when they get warning for using racial slurs or demonitized for pushing conspiracy theories, but the Left get hits just as hard if not harder on social media.
This happens even in videos where the title and subject matter do not make it immediately obvious. Watch any videos about video games? Prepare to be recommended videos that start on somewhat valid video game criticism and somewhere in the middle slide right into “GAMES ARE BEING RUINED AND IT’S ALL THE FAULT OF FEMINISM AND THE ESS JAY DOUBLE YEWS!” Nazis are going hard for that demographic and the shit is everywhere.
This supposed Bigfoot was caught on film on December 2nd, 2012. It was recorded in Provo Canyon in Utah by an unnamed hiker. The hiker claimed that, as he slowly got closer to the creature, it began throwing rocks in his direction. This area of Utah seems to be a little hot spot of activity for Bigfoot sightings.
sense 8 has now given me higher standards for tv shows, so has the get down, and dear white people, just as how wonder woman gave me high standards for movies. god, can you believe there are writers and producers and filmmakers who are so creative and innovative and want to make diverse and thought provoking content but can’t? can you believe that shows like sense 8 and the get down get cancelled despite both being super diverse, one with Amazing queer representation, and another that talks about racism and claim and the evolution of music, and how it affects young black/latinx kids? I can and it makes me angry because good content gets cancelled and 13 reasons why gets renewed despite literally causing copycat suicides and despite the fact that they finished the story that the show was based on.
