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I still go back occasionally to Shaun's classic vids dismantling the sheer stupidity on display.

If I remember, this was recent and posted here a few weeks ago. She was already doing OF when she made the announcement. She was already making a ton of money through it.

The problem is that the site offers very little in the way of discoverability and differentiation. You're not even getting to the free stuff without a CC enabled acct.

If someone just opens an account there and shows up it's not enough. They have to pop up in social media and engage with people. Hey I'm fun, I'm over here and I'm worth the time and money. They have to know their market and clientele and drag them in.

Its been way longer than a year

One of his more endearing terms, I also miss the swedish thumb fucker and only the tip in just for a minute.

And of course whatever makes you chooch.

I liked his merch

I think it depends on which definition of pedophile you're using. If you mean the act of abuse, then the fame gave them the opportunity and unless pre crime is wrong they weren't pedophiles prior to the act so in some sense it did make them a pedo (but obviously they're still responsible for their own actions). If you mean the mental disorder of being attracted to minors, then it's likely they always were, I don't think fame would make you suddenly desire that.

I generally prefer it if YouTubers can self-fund based on merch, as opposed to hawking shavers, VPNs, and overpriced TV dinners. That said, the drop in quality has been noticeable from that point on. The drone defense video was particularly noticeable for being military propaganda.

Every single video he's made, even the early ones, had an uncomfortable level of editing to them for me.

it is.

spoilers

if you don't know, the big guy in the foreground has a severe learning disability and kills a woman by accident, not really understanding the consequences of what he's done, he's being executed by his friend to give him a quick death as the lynch mob approaches.

i took it as that too

I think h3 is kind of a hidden nexus of fringe->main stream internet culture throughout the last like 15 years. Every wave Ethan has ridden has never been the main thing, it's always right on the periphery of mainstream internet culture. That way he has cultivated a tiny amount of fans from every wave but never enough to get him into the public eye, and as a result everyone who knows him thinks they know someone "under ground" and he doesn't shy away from that branding.

I don't think it's Machiavellian. I think it's more just that Ethan has always held incoherent views (like everyone in the world) and his brand is to be unapologetically opinionated, so now that he's dug his heels in on Gaza there's no moving him until he has fully crashed and burned.

I mean he's Jewish and his wife is from Israel, they have family members or at least know people personally who are in Israel and have their whole life, so the propaganda they've been fed is ingrained in their family identity.

It's not an excuse, it's sad to see, but as you pointed out he's always declared himself a "capitalist" and has taken some pretty right wing positions. It's just to say it's not intentional, just a stupid dude who doesn't work to hard to form opinions about stuff. I wouldn't say this about every grifter, it's just that H3 started out much more innocently and I don't think they spent a decade keeping up a ruse like that I think it was genuine. I mean you really think he was doing Vape Nashe videos concocting how he was going to infiltrate internet culture to push right wing propaganda?

They recently had a kid, all Hasbara had to do was give them a couple mil contract to help their kids future in exchange for taking a side on an issue he never really cared about or brought up before October 7th. The ol' "I have kids to take care of" spiritual bypass is a powerful excuse for going along with atrocities, 99% of westerners practice this every day.

Turns out his free use of using the Nword and calling hasidic jews "dirty and nasty" meant he was actually just a bad guy. He just needed to find an outlet for hating brown people that people would support. He's found it now.

Yeah, he's found his charismatic enough to go on tours and collaborate with make real money. The couple of things he did with Adam Savage were pretty cool.

Resist the algorithms

Yeah I just switched to Piped/Tubular/Grayjay; you sub to who you want; no recommendations. IF someone is good enough to watch, they'll collab with their friends and you can grow that way.

The best part is, I run out of content, and I go do other things.

It's not a hobby but I really been watching a lot of drainaddict, it's just this dude in Australia water jetting sewer lines and storm lines apparently they've got a really bad problem with tree roots everywhere down there. You wouldn't think an hour-long video watching somebody run a pressure hose through a sewer line would be interesting but I just zone right the fuck out. He's very religious but it never really comes out other than the end of each video he has some Jesus thing on his water container in the truck. But he never brings it up and daily work. He's had a couple of videos where he answered q&a and talked about it he is very religious, like metal music is the devil. But you know, he doesn't cram it down your throat and he just regularly provides the same content and for no apparent reason I love it...

Where you going to get a psychiatrist in depression era America? you can barely get one now. Plus at that point he had killed someone, prison would have been a best case scenario; Curley formed a lynch mob to come get him

George did Lenny a favour by giving him a quick death while he was happy.

His old videos were pro "cultural" China, but never really talked about the government. According to him, he left when he started noticing vans follow him around and got the hell out before disappeared.

He already has a huge library of videos talking about cultural China, but now that he's out of the country, he has both cause and freedom to criticize the government.

The Chinese doesn't refer the ethnicity in this context but cultural. So it would be more like saying "My Nigerian wife". Viewers then have an expection to see stuff cultural stuff. It also helps the search algorithms I suppose.

But yea I did kinda stop watching them as well. It was getting too much I guess.

This was my favorite thing about Tom Scott, it never felt like he was trying to pad the runtime for ads/algorithm. If it took 3 min to explain, it was a 3 minute video.

A fairly popular youtuber I follow has called Jim Serling's videos "great 5 minute videos stretched to 20 minutes". There was a point in time when the yt algo was favoring ~11 minute videos, so a lot of content creators would make a glut of low info videos stretched to that mark. It was so bad, that I was refusing to click anything around the runtime. Now, if I catch someone start reiterating themselves early on, I just close the video.

edit: One example of the ~11 minute video people was CinimaSins. They were never very good, but could be funny in small doses. When they started to stretch the video length, you started to realize how pedantic and media illiterate they were.