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Everyone else found a new platform. Twitter's APIs went down, so people who were using 3rd party stuff (many content creators) had to drop the platform. Nobody got time to go to every website they post content on.
Wait. They've been telling us the exact opposite.. >

My own personal experiences with Twitter and YouTube confrim this.
On Twitter, I followed a few stand-up comedians (they dont do overtly political material but they do lean left), some talented fan-artists, some bands so I know if they're touring or have new albums coming out, and a few museums that post interesting scientific ot historical facts.
Even before Musk bought it, I'd get random-ass right-wing pundits and heavily slanted conservative news sites with clickbait headlines.  It got exponentially worse after Musk bought it, complete with shit like Kyle Rittenhouse whining and Donald Trump Jr.'s misspelled rants against Joe Biden.
YouTube?  Music videos, anime and video game reviews, sci-fi & fantasy movie trailers, cooking and household DIY repair stuff....but then Joe Rogan, Benny Shapiro, and some random-ass Fox News clips constantly show up.
This morning I was looking for a compilation of funny scenes from an anime (a goofy comedy about a woman who has a dragon for a maid) and about every eighth one was some smug right-winger ranting about...whatever.  Note, this is even after I've blocked channels and clicked "Not interested in this type of content " constantly.
This NEVER happens the other way.  I never get some weird result that has leftist content.  In fact, I don't even get weird neutral or apolitical results that don't make sense.
I'll look up videos about Warhammer 40,000 lore and I dont get some random-ass unrelated game instead.  I don'teven get "sorta close but wrong" results like Warcraft or War Thunder....but JOE ROGAN DESTROYS WOKE CULTURE sure as fuck will show up. >

It seems we have a shared experience. I don't know that I've ever wondered why no leftist bullshit was advertised to me. But I sure as shit wondered why I was getting ads from Shapiro and Peterson on YouTube. I don't regularly watch any of their crap. Maybe a video where they get shit on for their moronic views. I think I took the time to watch a video here and there before I truly understood jsut how full of it they are, but why would I keep getting the ads months after I watched a single video?
What I use YouTube for is mostly music and late night monologues and things. Definitely not right wing stuff. Never left wing stuff. >

My favorite thing is YouTube repeatedly ignoring my “don’t show me any more from this channel” with the Joe Rogan Experience. I literally can’t escape them on YouTube. >

I blocked JRE, Tucker Carlson, B. Shapiro, etc. on my phone.
Despite being logged into the exact same YouTube account on my TV, they show up on my Smart TV's YouTube app. >

It’s nuts. It half drives me crazy trying to figure out if these guys have multiple accounts or if YT just doesn’t care. I think in the end, big business is just incentivized to coddle the right. What bothers me is that they have a misunderstanding of what makes people lean right. Liking guns, video games, gear, etc. does not automatically make someone a hateful bigot. They’re either incredibly misinformed about what makes someone right or they’re actively trying to recruit people. >

They’re actively trying to recruit. Young men are the foot soldiers of any authoritarian movement, so if you’re into any predominantly young male interest—video games, standup comedy, science fiction, wargaming, sports, bodybuilding, how to meet women, etc.—you will end up seeing their content. They use ad buys, bot nets, and astroturfing to push their content to the top of recommendation algorithms, and it becomes self-sustaining from there. More people see and engage with it, it gets more exposure, so it gets seen more. Ignoring it doesn’t stop it, because they’re actively pushing it to serve their agenda. That’s why its important to call it out and shame the people involved in it.
Political affiliation isn’t as important to them. Young people’s politics aren’t set in stone yet. Horseshoe theory is real as far as they’re concerned, and some disillusioned leftists can be pushed into serving the right-wing by indulging their “both sides are the same and you’re smarter than all of them” cynicism. >

Funny how Elon didn’t release these >

Elon is more of a dick pic kinda guy. >

Every photo of Elon is a dick pic. >

Got heem >

I find one thing interesting about the whole twitter thing. Within the last 24hrs my feed has switched to about 30-40% right wing tweets. I’m a passive twitter user who mostly scrolls for comedy and news. Before yesterday my feed was about 5-10% political, probably a little more liberal than conservative but it would mostly be tweets I’d skip. Now my feed is full of political stuff and most is right wing. Politics it’s not something I use twitter for, it’s honestly the worst medium for things that require nuance.