Reminder - almost all European countries have had an open rebellion or political upset in the last hundred years.
I don't see how this contradicts anything I've said, or really what it has to do with my point. Do you just want to condescend about nothing? How European. All of the heinous shit intelligence agencies in the US have done was done in the last 100, if not 50 years. I have read some history, that's why I'm suspicious of state power.
The majority of internet traffic is from bots. The best botters likely make 10's of millions a year. A bit of a powerlevel, but there are more ways to make money than promoting sites for meeting hot & ready MILFs in your area. Some examples of methods people use/sell are building a false consensus around elections, positive/negative mentioning of a brand, selling followers/likes, burying or promoting information, and other assorted fuckery.
Excluding the UK, France and Spain and most of Eastern Europe, this may be true.
I got 20 minute into the first video and had to stop. I wish this guy would stay on topic. I'm a proponent of DIT in isolation. That being: the internet's population and most of it's interactions are fake. This guy trails off into all modern music and movies being AI generated. You don't need a conspiracy theory to explain why modern media is shit. The cherry on top is how anime is the superior form of entertainment. That just lets you know who you're dealing with.
That's something an AI would say.
What I would really like to see done is have many people compile activity data for many smaller niche channels, and compare that to the activity on the supermassive accounts feeding the same niche interest. The numbers are obviously fudged on YT. The audience is finite for most users, there really is an invisible glass ceiling, and even the quality uploaders hit it. The only mystery is who creates the apparent activity beyond the ceiling.
I've just looked on the videos which used to have a load but they seem to have disappeared. YouTube has probably got better at detecting and deleting them but sometimes they still slip through. I can't be the only one who noticed them.
I agree with the rest of your post but smugness is smugness, people in the UK support the government when they think they're getting handouts. Whilst there is an anti-authoritarian thread throughout the UK, its begging guised as rebellion as most of those people empower the same government they rail against depending on what they get out of it (The worst do it just to huff their own shit). Don't dare try telling them they're recieving those benefits off of the back of someone elses labour unless you want to be a pariah. Some even turn hostile.
Tbh youtube comments seem to be the MOST organic of any platform. That isn't to say they're entirely clean, of course, but it's not like the overtly obvious manipulation of twitter. Most "bot-like" comments I see on youtube are probably just unfunny 10 year olds.
You're right there and if it were a post with a timestamp and some unfunny "me when the X" comment I'd know it's a human, a 10 year old trying to be a funny. However there are other comments which have a timestamp and either nothing or something completely unreleated to the video and if I click on the timestamp there will be nothing special happening at that part of the video. I don't have any screenshots but if I see any again I will make sure to capture them. These bots don't appear to be trying to boost the creator because I've had a few of them on my channel before and then they disappear after a few weeks. I've never paid for any bot promotions or anything of the sort. They were more noticable on smaller channels because of the lack of real comments.
They're bots testing different approaches to avoid getting flagged as spammers and/or banned. The garbage they're posting in those cases is meaningless and the accounts themselves aren't intended for "production" use -- they're literally just disposable probes.
