#internet pipelines

[personal-blog243]

If you are a conservative/republican leaning person who maybe doesn’t understand where other people get there info or how they think; here are a few YouTube channels if you are interested in listening to the “other side”. (Keeping in mind that labels are not set in stone and “sides” and labels are mostly bullshit)

. Some More News- with Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll

. Last Week Tonight- with John Oliver

. The New Evangelicals- with Tim Whitaker and April Joy (note: Tim Whitaker has recently been accused of some anger management/hostile workplace issues. Take with a grain of salt)

. Belle of the Ranch- if you want shorter videos

. Legal Eagle

These are just a few YouTube channels that one MIGHT define as “left” that cover some of these topics if you are interested in seeing how other people think and where they get there info.

[jesusinstilettos]

I’ve been saying, as a cult survivor, you all need to learn more about cult manipulation tactics. These pipelines use a lot of the same tactics. We are all humans, we can all be vulnerable to manipulation.

[thisischeri]

iMac G4, Apple, 2002

instagram: cheri.png

[ytcomments-archive]

[wallbeatjournal]

what if i told you hiram lodge was a redditor?

i think he's catfishing and suicide-baiting posters on niche kink subreddits at this very moment

[iwonderwh0]

YouTube is so damn biased towards alpha male content I keep getting it recommended to me even though I click "not interested" every single time I see this shit

I was wondering what the actual fuck, why am I getting it if it's nowhere close to what I usually watch and I do an extra step of saying "not interested" when I see it

I have a theory why

I have gender set to male in my profile

YouTube might be rigged in such an absolutely fucked up way based on this profile setting alone

If anyone here use YouTube a lot from a profile with gender set to male, does it happen to you as well?

[xiaq]

@plagues-and-pansies is now in Texas and we’re headed to Galaxy con. 🎉

[angels-heap]

I have a question. This is inspired by the recent discourse, but it's not about the recent discourse. I'm genuinely interested to learn: How common is it for people to participate in fandoms where they haven't read/watched/played the source material? I don't mean, like, before you've finished the source material, or before you've consumed every single installment/season/interpretation of it, but when you have not engaged with it at all.

I ask because this is practically unfathomable to me, and I always figured I was in the majority on that. I've found that I can't engage with fanworks if I haven't interacted with the canon, and the thought of producing fanworks for something I've never read/watched/played is horrifying to me, both because of the potential for embarrassment and because it just... doesn't seem like it'd be fun.

Have any of y'all gotten involved with fandoms where you have virtually zero knowledge of the source material? What was that like? And why?

[foursaints]

What's with everybody saying you and grim give of rosekiller vibes because you're definitely a lilybarty variant (not gendered) if I've ever seen one

in light of this. maybe manifestation is real

[starbugforest]

For every aspect of your identity there is a term that someone has coined.

These terms are useful, and help us feel belonging.

Feeling like one belongs will often have one feeling territorial.

When something new comes along that does not adhere to the term and its rules as you understand it, this is a threat.

Because if you do not understand, then you do not belong.

But you DO belong here and you finally found this place and this thing that fits you so it must be that the other is wrong. The other does not belong.

They are other.

Other is a threat.

[thefailureartist]

Ah yes, the annual phase of "fuck am i on the wrong track? am i not doing enough? should i go take a course, go back to art school, get some actual industry training? can i keep up as is?"

Maybe one day i'll cave and just spend all my money on another art course just so i can finally feel like i've done all i can. the rest is up to luck.

[morg-among-the-stars]

The cool thing about Dan and Phil is that, in the vast whole that is The Internet, you can meet your best friend, actual soulmate, companion through life, the person you can sit in silence with like ancient, slowly blinking tortoises. Out of the billions of people that exist in the world, that person is out there and great things can come of that

gay things, too

[goldrogerstits]

making 50 + minute long videos about tik tok drama is insane and youtube needs to stop recommending them to me just because I wanted to watch a video about current fashion trends

[danmeichael]

DANNY TALK ABOUT THE SCUMMIE FURRY AU, I NEED TO KNOW THEIR FURCADIA ACCOUNTS AND NEOPETS LORE !!!!

i think you had a different furry childhood than i did.......... i'm sorry i can't tell you anything about either of these......................

[disgustingposer]

back in the day where i was an unsurpervised child on the internet™ i would watch conspiracy theory videos on yotube bc I thought it had a sci fi horror quality to them, but watching them now knowing it's like 80% anti-Semitism makes them so boring now and makes me feel low-key guilty about how I would consume them like one would read a horror book

let me set the record straight:

"reptilians" = anti semitism

"elite controlling the world" = anti semitism

"cultural Marxism" = anti semitism

[millionmovieproject]

In this episode, Jared & I discuss the conflict in #Haiti, & the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (#ACP) that provides internet to 1 in 6 in the US, that will potentially strip the most vulnerable of internet access, & the need for #nationalization of utilities and services.

Jared also treats us to an original song.