Anarchic Fox on 30/4/2020 at 13:24
Quote Posted by june gloom
Folding Ideas is unquestionably one of the best channels on Youtube. I particularly liked his explainer on creepy kids' animation on Youtube and how people abuse the algorithm:
After watching that video I went and read the James Bridle article... very strange and informative, thank you! Though I was amused by the fact that all but one of Bridle's example videos had since been taken down.
june gloom on 7/5/2020 at 03:24
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The thing I dont get about that is why the creepy weirdass content? Surely if this is exploitation of algorithms for increased ad revenue streams, why wouldnt you make the content as safe and kid friendly as possible? Instead of Spiderman injects stuff up pregnant elsa ass, why not spiderman and elsa take a walk in a park. Kids would watch either just as much, and the safe content would fly under the radar so much more.
One would have to assume that at least some of it is made with malicious intent, which is fucked.
Also, dont let your 3-4 year old kid watch youtube unsupervised
Cultural differences probably. Most of this stuff is made by a handful of outfits in South Asia. (The live action stuff is Russian, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.) I don't think it's malicious so much as the teams working on this stuff simply have no idea that it's objectionable in the west, or at the very least they're uncaring because it brings in the money.
It's not just kids' videos either. The phenomenon seems to have either branched off of, or developed alongside, (
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/12/frozen-pregnancy-games/) the worrying trend of weird
Frozen-themed flash games.
Sulphur on 14/5/2020 at 17:55
Quote Posted by icemann
And that is the last I have to say on it.
Good. Keep it that way.
Anarchic Fox on 14/5/2020 at 18:02
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Good. Keep it that way.
Hey, don't be mean.
Broadly speaking, I've compensated for my illness by making extra effort to be rational. Or rather, by making extra effort to develop the abilities that constitute rationality. However, there's an awful lot of deranged public writing of mine out there. A person who so desired could compile it into a very damning document, simply by selection and omission.
*shrugs* Again, I know little about Boogie, and I don't care enough to go find out more. I checked out a couple of his videos, found them decent but not compelling, then moved on to the other recommendations in this thread.
Sulphur on 14/5/2020 at 18:06
Quote Posted by Anarchic Fox
Hey, don't be mean.
I'm not; I literally don't want to read any more apologism for bad behaviour without an ounce of critical thinking wrapped around it, because it's exhausting to read. There's times when it makes sense, and there's times when biases warp your argument, and this is very clearly a product of the latter plus not thinking very hard combined with a blind spot the size of a continent. I think you need to be able to discern when someone's arguing to justify behaviour because they relate to it and want it validated more than actually being, you know, empathetic.
And really, don't you get enough of that in your day to day to begin with?
Anarchic Fox on 14/5/2020 at 18:08
So... how about that SuperBunnyHop, eh? So far he's the only one to make it to my permanent list. Ross's Game Dungeon is great at times, but tedious at others. The embedded Bed Bananas Hitman video was fantastic, the rest of the channel not so great... however, I noticed that the Hitman one is very recent, so maybe it has just hit its stride. The others were not to my taste, or else things I'd enjoy as written work, not as videos.
henke on 21/5/2020 at 07:51
Noclip has an Arkane documentary coming out next week! They'll talk about Dishonored, Prey, Arx, and Dark Messiah of course, but more excitingly they'll also be getting into the cancelled games The Crossing and LMNO. :D
(
https://twitter.com/noclipvideo/status/1262801093190316033)
demagogue on 21/5/2020 at 08:57
I've been watching Bay Area Buggs (
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO4rvxZ-bJ6uGDeSkMCmzEg) GTAV Role Play videos recently. He's got like 500 episodes of them that are averaging like 1.5 million views apiece, and each one is entertaining at that level.
It makes me kind of want to jump into a role play world like this, but something you can just pop in and out of without needing all the commitment and committed friends that this seems to require. But anyway, it's entertaining to watch other people at it. There is something special about (1) gaming with real people that (2) successfully manages to keep the griefers out and everybody is playing along in good faith.
Tony_Tarantula on 21/5/2020 at 19:10
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So yep, the thread has people that have cataloged everything he's said, done, going really far back, text logs of private conversations etc. Plus a heap of lies. The guys behind all that are a bunch of evil bullies that delight on the suffering of others. I believe in that so strongly, because I have encountered people like that in my own life. The fact that so many believe it all is the saddest part. And also, if you take at face value everything said by one with mental illness, then really anyone with any kind of mental illness shouldn't be allowed on the internet then, as they say and do crazy shit. That is mental illness. I've met MANY people with mental illness across my lifetime, and they have said and done bad shit, because they are fucked up mentally. Also just generally if you were able to catalog everything anyone has said, across their entire lifetime then we're all damned. Question in my mind is why those people started cataloging him in the first place, and the amount of effort and time required to do so.
That's why I try to keep a distance from that "influencer" drama and refuse to watch anyone who participates in it, which unfortunately shortens my list rather dramatically.
I get the distinct impression that a lot of "gamer influencer" culture is just high school girl social bullying tactics on steroids. It's unfortunate life never really seems to move on past high school.
One thing I may suggest to get over bullying: work on fitness and physical training. I know it sounds vain as hell but it really does make you feel differently when you're fit, look like it, and know you look better than those people ever did.