Fascist rage bait videos get the most engagement time, and the topics happen to align with the interests of the bourgeoisie, so they’re recommended for both economic and ideological reasons.

It’s the magical totally non political algorithm. That’s it. That’s all it is.

Reactionaries of all sorts have the scales tipped in favor of their loud obnoxious ALL CAPS RAGE BAIT titles, and chances are the reactionary techbros behind said algorithms are more than pleased to further nudge the scales, especially considering that this shit is what default starting youtube visitors also get.

“Think before you sleep” is just a Nazi. His voice is also horrid and he’s dumb as fuck (typical Nazi traits).

I dunno if you’re showing a private browsing collection or your own recommendations with an account, but either way I never watch these right wing videos except via proxy (someone else watching it and responding) and I got recommended some straight Nazi shit the other day. Not sure what logic is behind Google’s Adolf algorithm, but it’s working as intended… I guess

So I’ll probably gather some hate for this post.

Putting the shitty reactionary channels aside (Critical Drinker and Think Before You Sleep are borderline fascist; dunno about the other two), I will say that there’s a point to be made here:

1. Liberal establishment is actively attempting to insert feminism, “wokeness”, racial issues, etc, into everything they do, including media. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I’d say on it’s own it’s a good thing.

2. Many such efforts are done very badly, and end up backfiring. Bad writing, hamfisting the message, messing with established canon, etc, are destined to create backlash in the audience. A lot of the reaction being generated here is caused by the inability to mesh message with story. For example, 1960s Star Trek was well written, and its messages were widely accepted by most people (except in very extreme cases). The more recent Queen’s Gambit was universally praised, because it had excellent writing, despite boasting a very strong female lead and centering on men attempting to control women. On the other hand, even a half-decent show like Jessica Jones will generate controversy, when every single male character in the show is shown to be an asshole, whether their screen time spans multiple episodes or only happens for a few seconds. That’s just not good writing. But when most people’s brains notices this stuff, they don’t immediately blame the writing, but rather resort to more instinctive accusations.

3. Because of #2, reactionary channels such as Critical Drinker, are having a field day by producing content that combines disaster porn and persecution syndrome with true-sounding criticism of such films and series. Thus, they are able to accumulate a critical mass of subscribers and spread their reactionary fascist propaganda to people who are largely not politically educated. Bad efforts to spread an otherwise good message have always been and always will be hurting the cause rather than helping it. When you were just getting into communism, have you tried telling your friends about it? So many times that they started shutting down every time you brought it up? This is the same effect on a larger scale.

4. Because the message is coming from liberals, the way it’s presented is also liberal. That means there’s a serious lack of context and thought in the way it’s presented. Usually it ends up being coated in layers of moral superiority and snickering, which makes things even worse.

5. A bunch of grifters are taking advantage of this wave of progressiveness to make money. For example, you have companies who specialize on “woke consulting”. What these companies do is that they come in to production companies of various media and tell them “Oh this thing you are producing doesn’t have enough equality in it. Pay us so we can tell you how to fix it”. And when the company doesn’t pay, they’ll use sockpuppets, bots, and other social media manipulation to generate “controversy”, which then plays badly for the upcoming release, and the producers end up paying to make the problem go away. As audiences are becoming aware of this, it’s making things worse, by giving credence to the idea of a “woke agenda trying to control our culture”.

6. At the end, perhaps creating controversy is exactly the purpose here. The “culture wars” might be nothing more than an orchestrated effort to direct eyes, ears and brains away from inequality in real life, climate change issues, wars, corruption, the failures of capitalism, the ever-expanding totalitarianism of the West, etc etc. Moreover, slimes like the Democrats are taking advantage of these “wars” to score cheap political points without actually doing anything tangible.

Sorry for the long rant. I didn’t mean to initially. It just got out, because I’ve had these thoughts milling in my head for a while now.

And just to be clear, these channels can go fuck themselves.

F*ck your pronouns

It’s a reactionary insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated.

Anecdotally, I’ve never really seen videos like this ever. the majority of my algorithm is music related or vaguely socialist leaning

Well you just entered the Entertainment Anti-SJW pipeline of YT with notable people like Nerdrotic TheQuartering RK Outpost MIKE ZEROH Geeks + Gamers Asmongold HeelsvsBabyface

It’s likely based kn geography, probably its a growing tendency on your country towards this way of thinking, plus you watch that Ukrainian update stuff frequently which probably lumps you into some questionable folks as well

I don’t watch this content but I still get it recommended. And it seems I get it recommended more than I used to, which makes me think that maybe it’s on purpose.

YouTube’s algo is bizarrely right wing.

https://hexbear.net/post/3491664

List of channels for BlockTube. Post was removed by mod and it’s not even in the log (I think I know why but I’m not sure). Feel free to copypasta at your leisure.

Videos like this have been spreading wildly on YouTube for at least a decade, possibly even since the very beginning.

well…this will be useful for you

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=yKC6XmsLWVQ

I used to get these a lot, despite being very left-wing even at the time I was using Youtube. Only stopped once I started watching Second Thought (and started clicking “stop showing me these”).