We need more liberal critical thinking bros.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Recently watched a documentary called ‘the YouTube effect’ by Alex Winter (bill of bill and ted) which goes into how YouTube was essential in the current global state of radicalized individuals.
In the earlyish days of the internet (late 1990s / early 00s) I fell deep down the rabbit hole of right wing hate and conspiracy theories…
One subject of the doc explains his descent. It is almost exactly mine. Only these days it is hyper stimulated, laser targeted, data driven, psychological warfare, wrapped in polished, billionaire backed campaigns.
It comes at you from wherever you are.
Crypto bros. Health/hydro bros. incel bros. Christian bros. Muslim bros. Rogan bros. Peterson bros. Elmo bros. Tech bros. Anon bros. etc.
By the time a lot of people realize what’s happened, if ever, they’re already in too deep.
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I like to watch videos of media critiques. Somehow all the ones that I keep getting recommended are anti woke d bags that blame every bad movie choice on the company/producer/director/etc going woke. I’ve pretty much had to stop watching those types of videos and try to rebalance the algorithm by watching literally anything that seems remotely left leaning. It’s been 2 months and it’s barely better.
AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah a lot of channels used to be actual discussion now it’s all culture war bs.
3laws@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Patrick H. Willems. Thomas Flight. Now You See It. Cinema Therapy. Pop Culture Detective. jstoobs
nurple@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pop Culture Detective is great, for the most part.
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s one channel I love watching for the behind the scenes news on movie studios, but then it goes anti-woke so hard sometimes that I literally just have to stop the video mid-viewing.
The anti-woke crowd think the woke crowd are so annoying, but they never themselves stop to think about how the anti-woke croud can be so annoying as well.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I have resorted to extreme methods of recommendation algorithm avoidance such as, but not limited to:
Multiple accounts.
Proxies and anonymous services like startpage.com anonymous view.
Non YouTube clients like piped or envidious.
Using multiple browsers instead of a single google spyware app.
MacGuffin94@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah I’m just watching less because I don’t want to spend the time doing that. It’s irritating either way but at least this way I can justify since I’m not putting in and time.