Thing is, the horror subgenre of cursed old shit works because you can reasonably put yourself in a position where you interact with the hardware. But with creepy software even that's impossible.
For some reason that made me think of this ancient classic
Sometimes it is also used as a stand-in for murder, altough not as common because there's more leniency and other euphemisms for it
Yes, but I think some creators fear that if they start the video with a sponsor, people will click away immediately - because you get two ads from YT before the video even starts anyway, and then the sponsor. That could be four to six minutes of ads total if the YT ads are long, and the video hasn't even really started yet. At the half-way point viewers are theoretically more invested.
It is 100% for Zoomers larping as Millenials - it is understated just how fucking many of those there are. I like to fuck around on websites that look like other now defunct websites - just lurking on sites like Vidlii, Neocities, Spacehey, etc. I have seen so fucking many pages covered in the most stereotypical "I'm a teenager online in 2007" bullshit - then you see where they've listed their age as "13", not to mention a whole slue of links to tiktok, twitter, and other brainrot filled shitholes on their profiles. The main audience and driving force behind all media online, in this vein, at this point in time are people who weren't even cognizant of their own existence until 2015 at the earliest, and they look back on things like Slenderman, The Rake, Sonic.EXE, etc. the same way people born in the year 2000 looked back on slasher icons like Freddy and Jason. These are strange days we're living in.
Bah, of course. I’m an idiot for not thinking of that, I’ve had adblocker for so long I pretty much forgot ads even existed.
I mean at this point I guess most people just want extra money because the governments of most Western countries are pieces of shit to the people who live there and the job market also is. As long as it isn’t a channel shitting on other people as their main source of content, people should be allowed to make money. If you don’t have a degree and come from a non optimal place or family it’s kind of useful to be able to pay bills even if only a temporary secondary income source.
Yeah, I will always dislike YT and corpos more than creators who shill too hard or use dumb euphemisms like essay. If YT wasn't such a cancerous badly-run monopoly at least some creators would do things differently. There are entire tv-channels playing crime porn 24/7, that run big corpo ads every 15 minutes, but the same corpo won't run ads on a YT channel describing the exact same thing.
The only good Batman Who Laughs moment was Owlman calling that fraud out and reminding everybody that he's already the definitive evil Batman.
It's often a specific request/requirement of the contract with the sponsor on where to put the add and how long it needs to be.
SponsorBlock really is the best invention of the modern era.
I specifically remember a clip of up-and-coming cow Annacondasin saying she wanted to kill an animal, before quickly self-ccorrecting to "unalive"... And continuing to say she wanted to sexually abused said unalive animal. The contrast was hilarious.
That thing almost has worse teeth than Cobra, wtf
Lame example, this one is far better:
I don’t think the mutant cannibals in fallout look as monstrous as Cyraxx. Dude a Hills have eyes mutant.
