Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole
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The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

  • mdm_@lemmy.caEnglish
    572·
    1 year ago

    Crypto bros. Health/hydro bros. incel bros. Christian bros. Muslim bros. Rogan bros. Peterson bros. Elon bros. Tech bros. Anon bros. etc.

    Hmm I’m sensing a theme here…

    • NegativeInf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      I think I fell in the other YouTube rabbit hole? My recs are all progressive podcasters, history video essays, and YouTube creator podcasts that complain about YouTube?

    • nyoooom@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      1 year ago

      Loneliness, lack of purpose, which then gets fulfilled by a relatively small community driven by defending and idea, ideology and/or an individual.

      • Khotetsu@lib.lgbtEnglish
        18·
        1 year ago

        Yup, it’s the same old song of fascists and cultists.

        “Are you lonely, sad, angry, or just generally dissatisfied with your life? Have you tried blaming your problems on a minority with less power in society than yourself? Act now, and I’ll throw in a second minority, free!*”

        *Just pay shipping and handling.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      Leftists aren’t immune. My YouTube has a lot of Vaush, Hasan, Sam Seder, etc.

      Though I do also get Patrick Bet David and PragerU thrown in too, I think because I can’t help but watch for a window into their line of thinking.

      • Fisk400@feddit.nuEnglish
        81·
        1 year ago

        It is not quite the same. It recommends things you watch. If you watch Hasan you tend to get more Hasan stuff but only on rare occasions do you get Vaush stuff.

        Back in the day you could watch one non political thunderfoot about some scam and the recommendations would be a rouges gallery of anti-sjws with no other recommendations.

        Now you can get radicalized because you want to be and it’s a nice saunter down the hill. Then it was a sheer cliff you could accidentally fall into. If you didn’t experience it you can’t really imagine how stupid it was.

    • ST5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      There’s a recent documentary movie about that called Bros I suggest you check it out.