Maybe not that interesting for everyone here, but I found no better community for this.

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Anyone down voting this should be ashamed of themselves.

    Like deeply and personally ashamed.

    The type of shame that follows them for the rest their lives, because that’s how scummy you’d have to be in order downvote someone shining a light on how private equity is buying out major YouTube channels.

    Something that I was entirely unaware of, and appreciate your comment regarding.

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      5 hours ago

      You wrote all that shit and forgot that accusations like that need proof.

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        4 hours ago

        The video which made the accusations, not me, provided sources for all of the claims.

        Did you even look?

        Sorry, that was rhetorical, obviously you did not look.

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            3 hours ago

            I didn’t single out any particular YouTube channel for individual scorn. My comment was in reference to that very well sourced video about private equity buying up / investing many YouTube channels, of which they provided sources for in the description of the video.

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              Look, I’m sorry you got invested in Youtube channels and now feel betrayed, but that’s something everyone else already understood: don’t blindly trust anyone or any organisation, they can be bought, and will when it’s advantageous to do so.

              In the meantime, don’t shit on people’s work without a good reason, or you’re doing the work for those who mean to control you.

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                I have no idea what you’re going on about.

                It’s not a matter of betrayal, it was a video revealing another area of influence in society that is now controlled behind the scenes by private equity.

                Whose work was I shitting on? I was shaming people who were down voting that very well sourced and informative video, that documented private equity’s quiet takeover of major YouTube channels.

                Maybe you should review the comment thread and see if you meant to respond to someone else, because that’s the most charitable explanation I can come up with for your responses to me.

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      2 days ago

      Bringing this general issue up in a thread about Kurzgesagt, without also providing evidence that Kurzgesagt specifically is actually part of that issue, is at best irrelevant and at worst misleading though

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      2 days ago

      I get it. They like the channel, and don’t want to think that a channel they love could do something they don’t love. Or maybe some of them don’t see it as a bad thing in the first place.

      Me, I’m the opposite. I want to know who owns the media I consume, because I want to know who might be influencing the things I see. It’s always better to have the whole truth, even if that truth hurts. It doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the channel still, it just means you’re better prepared to understand the context of anything that that channel might say. Even cold hard facts with empirical evidence can be propaganda, depending on how it’s presented.

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        5 hours ago

        Except you lied about who they are owned by.

        Why make yourself out to be virtuous and caring about the truth when your entire premise is a lie?

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          I never made myself out to be virtuous, nor do I care about what you think of me. I’m an asshole, and that’s fine because I love me exactly how I am and don’t need random strangers on the internet for validation. and I certainly don’t care about what you think of them making propaganda videos. I wouldn’t even still be in this thread if you guys weren’t still throwing a tantrum about somebody calling out your precious favorite YouTube channel for their less-than-stellar quality and tendency to pander to billionaires.

          I posted my opinion, you got butthurt over it. that’s as far as this conversation is ever going to go, because I don’t care about you enough to bother arguing it extensively. now why don’t you take your sci-fi antisemitic trope of a username and get out of my mentions.