I didn't watch the whole thing but some of the comments seemed to suggest this wasn't the first thing like this they had posted.
Made me wonder if it was intentionally batshit rather than actually batshit.
(, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 6:22, Reply)
I'd say it's one of those pseudo-esoteric grifters
They make videos on outlandish sounding conspiracy theories (in this case accompanied by "spiritual" didgeridoo music) because it makes the people watching feel like they're in a "secret club" of people who know.
(, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 8:32, Reply)
Impossible to tell if he's fully invested, taking the piss, or somewhere in between.
It's a mystery cult pyramid scheme, grifting is baked in. The drone music is integral to the genre, like the numerology and apopheny. The apophenia could equally be satire or evidence of schizophrenia.
The comments look like the audience is taking it entirely seriously. YT's radicalisation protocol is evidently operating perfectly.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 16:13,
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Radicalisation is inherent with algorithms
If I watch one video, it'll recommend me more similar videos that may be more or less extreme. Usually the amount of extreme videos outweighs the normal ones therefore you get radicalised.
(, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 16:56, Reply)
But it could never happen to you, right?
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 18:55,
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I do think algorithms
are where governments should crack down on social media.
They've basically trained a mob who they can rile up about free speech if you try and censor content, but none of them are going to fight to protect the algorithms or the gambling tricks being used to make them addicted.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 23:23,
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I know 4 people irl who
have been sent mad as a lorry by social media. It's terrifying to see.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 16 Jan 2025, 23:27,
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Oh I know a few of them too.
Angry at trans people they've never met, angry at grooming gangs but just the brown ones, angry at refugees, suddenly very proud of their accident of birth, suddenly very worried that basic human decency has gone too far.
You can't be reasoned out of something you've been dumbed into, apparently. Now I'm mainly just trying not to call them stupid fucking cunts, but not always succeeding.
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brb Learn Ukrainian and prepare for a referendum, Fri 17 Jan 2025, 19:41,
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