Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

The degree to which YouTube pushes toxic right wing bullshit on me (I'm assuming some combination of having watched the Joe Rogan podcast where Leia Remini recounted her whole Scientology experience and my demographics), but even when I reject suggestions saying they are offensive I get similar things or even other offerings by the same dude back in my suggestions

Yeah, if you watch anything remotely political their horrible shite algorithm pushes the most noxious garbage possible. I think part of the problem is also that the right-wing nonsense outnumbers the lefty stuff 100 to 1 cause it gets cranked out effortlessly and artlessly at a much higher clip.

it's almost like youtube is a horrible cesspool and their algorithm is tuned specifically, whether by accident or by design, to promote hateful content

or what simon said, i guess

i watch a lot of cooking and canning videos so i've been sunk into a rabbithole of weird christian prepper videos, i don't even mind

Two different acquaintances of mine from my grad program are now right-wing Youtubers. I watch their stuff sometimes while depressed on the internet and think, well, at least I'm not doing that.

it's a good grift!

The thing is it's not even that good a grift unless you get popular enough to have a crowdfunding following on the side, their monetization scheme has been garbage for years

or you get hired by toilet paper usa or some equally fraudulent dark-money ghouls

Yeah I mean I don't remember the numbers from my old game journalism job but it's really not shit for money until you are doing really big numbers, like even as hard as it would be to get say 5k ppl to watch a video that's not gonna get you much

I've had terrible right wing recommendations in my youtube for ages too, the algorithm seems to think "hmm, this person watched a video on feminism, surely they will also appreciate this video of some dude DESTROYING feminism". It's started to happen to me on facebook too, I got a targeted ad for a Jordan Peterson speaking engagement! I laughed and laughed.

If I click on anything that's not music related I go into my YT history and delete it immediately, it's the only way to avoid fascist recs that I've found.

i watch a lot of cooking and canning videos so i've been sunk into a rabbithole of weird christian prepper videos, i don't even mind

BREAKING NEWS: mahmoud ahmadinejad has followed virgil back, an rare honour he now shares with just 33 public figures including ralph nader, danny glover and uhhh david duke

https://preview.redd.it/hy2ssja88oz11.jpg?width=601&auto=webp&s=e98d808d214ef59cf59983e565333366c0b6a02f

impressive, but I'll be more impressed if he manages to hang in there for even another month

i want to believe

I don't really know what any of this stuff is but I saw some Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski stuff, seems pretty good but who knows these days

saw some young turks too that was annoying had to turn it off

Yeah, the Young Turks stuff is mostly bad from what I've seen and Cenk Uygur has had a lot of bad takes

latest CTH is their funniest in a long time, the dinar scam story is pretty much custom designed for them

ok this Cenk is terrible! like, actually dim?

"Young Turk" is a bit troubling to start with, when the expression will forever be linked with 20th century Armenian Genocide.

I remember when Cenk had a show on MSNBC and he was no contest the most annoying and off-putting news anchor I've ever seen.

Cenk did an AMA on Reddit and even though 99% of the questions were about his college writings about the Armenian genocide he refuses to address the subject, leaving his Armenian co-host to defend him in social media

the first part of Jon Bois and Felix's MMA documentary is up. always awkward to me to hear Felix do Serious Voice but it looks neat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oNB6tlSZ2A&feature=youtu.be

i've worked a little with cenk and even behind the camera he really is an all-surface inch-deep blowhard

he's built this totally insane culture at TYT of white livestream cowboys turned wannabe analysts who've surmised the secret to success is being simpler, louder, and more repetitive than whoever is opposing you, all of them are awful

it's real @virgiltexas pic.twitter.com/kcVXfz99Iz

— Buswolley (@btreif) November 26, 2018

lmao thank you for this valuable insider dirt HOOS. it's always satisfying to find out that people are what they appear to be

I liked the ContraPoints episode a lot
Felix and Matt even did a pretty decent job of shutting the fuck up and letting her speak

felix wasn’t on that one iirc, which may explain the slightly calmer interview

It was solid, but I hope they bring her back for a looser ep at some point

conchapoints

"Felix and Matt even did a pretty decent job of shutting the fuck up and letting her speak" this is like the nine hundredth time someone has posted something like this in this thread

full disclosure I've never listened to a chapo other than the eps of The Dollop they guested on

She’s on a recent ep of the Michael Brooks Show that’s good, too

http://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/65-cancel-the-h2qscam-ben-shapiro-ft-contrapoints-corey-pein

the Felix/Jon Bois MMA series is doing a great job of making MMA seem interesting and a very poor job of integrating Felix's politics

Matt Binder has done some pretty good episodes on Pro Wrestling and left politics on his Doomed! podcast--recently one about the WWE and Saudi Arabia

oh is that what fighting in the age of loneliness is, people keep sending it to me i didn't realize it was that thing

yup.

Yeah I find the MMA history interesting but I’m not sure I buy the larger socio-political framework they’re going for. Should piss off lots of MMA fans though!

where do i talk about eve peyser becoming bffs with bari weiss

slack

i don't have slack and they wrote a big old public article about it

nice to have something to refer to i guess when someone inevitably asks me next week "why is she so bad and hated specifically by you"

yeah never reading that piece in a million years lol

i kind of admire eve for just being a character in a j.franzen novel come to life, even her name seems like the sort of thing hed come up with when wryly creating an oberlin grad with a degree in self-care that writes explainers about millennial culture for "new media"

i just read about two-thirds of it and now i'm going to get up from my desk and hurl myself down a lift shaft

You guys are who this piece is actually about maybe that explains the reaction like someone just doused you in holy water

fuck, owned

holy water????