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I wouldn't say Al glorifies eating disorders. Who looks at that and wants to emulate it? Does anybody envy her ankleballs and shelf ass?
Others have talked about how YouTube's policies are inconsistent and that "glorifying" is very vague. I also think "glorifying" is a fairly useless term, and I agree that watching Amber does not "glorify" obesity.
I think the comparison to watching a heroin addict shoot up is apt. And heroin itself had that whole phase where people thought any media that portrayed it, and all those "heroin chic" waif-thin models, were "glorifying" it. But like, Trainspotting didn't glorify heroin use IMO. It did make people fascinated with it. So maybe that's a better way to frame it. Mukbangers create a fascination with obesity, and get a ton of attention, but it's not "glorifying" attention. It's trainwrecky, gawking, disgusted, shaming, "thank god I'm not that bad" negative attention. Some YouTubers are narcissists to begin with, and narcissists don't usually care if they're getting positive or negative attention.
Anyway, I think demonetization of obese mukbangers is ethical and right, but I don't know how YouTube could go about doing it without a bunch of unintended consequences for other YouTubers. It's one of those things where it's really hard to pinpoint exactly what is harmful and how it's harmful, but it's easy to see that Amber has blown way past any reasonable definition of "harmful."
I don't think a heroin user should be able to get ad money for making videos of themselves shooting heroin, and I don't think Amber should get paid to destroy her body for others' entertainment-- even if she knows fully well what she's doing, even if she is the one choosing to do it with nobody compelling her, and even if she's going to destroy her body anyway. It's just icky.
There is a grey area, I think, of letting people upload what they want to YouTube and letting the free market sort it out, as it were. But I also think YouTube is right to try and draw the line somewhere before they're making bank on people self-harming. That line may have already been crossed a long time ago, though.
its their way of saying "fetishist" but wont dare to cause muh sex/body pawsiteev hoes would be out typing long as twitlongers about it.
I can't believe I didn't even think of fat fetishists. Ugh.
What is our estimate of viewers for people like ALR? Here's my uneducated guess:
Trainwreck gawkers: 49%
Haters and Trolls: 20%
Feeders/fetishists: 30%
Actual fans: 1%
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