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

  • circuscritic@lemmy.ca
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    20 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.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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      20 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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        18 days 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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      20 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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      18 days ago

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

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        18 days 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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            18 days 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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              18 days ago

              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.