Comment on YouTube to be included in Australia’s social media ban for children under 16

• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look up gamergate and Steve Bannon

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• Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems like a strange place to push right-wing propaganda.

  Gamers are easy to rile up, already have exposure to a lot of counter culture language in VC, and generally young or ignorant enough that they can’t see the obvious propaganda they’re being fed. Add into that content creators that intermix rightwing talking points and you can slowly poison their minds into becoming Nazi shitbags.

  As the other commenter mentioned, gamergate is where all this shit first came up, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t there with the people who fell for the poison. I was just aware enough of what I was seeing to pull away from that culture before it really poisoned my mind.

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• mhague@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think there’s not much Nazi gamer shit out there because it’s incredibly rare for any to slip into my recommendations.

  But if I let YouTube go it would probably take me from normal people like anyaustin to hype people like xQc. And then from there all the popular people can show up, including asmonmold.

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