• helmet91@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I don’t think it’s clickbait at all. He’s in real danger of being silenced. With this latest project he reached into a massive wasp nest for sure, but I admire his efforts to speak up in cases like this.

    And I haven’t found any bias in his content in general. He’s pretty transparent about his methodologies.

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      6 hours ago

      He has a huge bias against Macs. I suspect you won’t be receptive to that idea.

      There’s a general sense of consoles and other devices being beneath the channel. Little comments often surface during news segments that touch on them. It’s not that they don’t acknowledge them.

      And with how shitty Microsoft is, you’d think they would be more even handed about the whole thing.

      But this is filtered though my sensitive ears because I came up with Mac gaming and console gaming, and I’m sensitive to when people are dismissive of other options. The same thing use to happen to Linux until the Steam Deck and associated software support from valve forced people out of treating all Linux gaming as an afterthought.

      Edit: use your words guys. The downvotes are nonsense.

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      2 days ago

      Title is clickbait, because a sentence like that without context is alarmist.

      It’s not wrong, it’s mentioned and explained in the video, byt it’s still clickbait.

      The story here is Bloomberg fuckery and the copyright strike, not the imminent channel deletion.

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        2 days ago

        without context? context is in the video. or do you want titles that span 4 lines with 3 sentences?

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          1 day ago

          No, just be honest. “Bloomberg fradulent copyright strike on our black market documentary”.

          Still one sentence.

          I use a Firefox extension called Dearrow because of this understandable, but unfortunate trend.

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          1 day ago

          Why is it a big deal? Don’t you agree with Linus that clickbait is just part of the game, and we should accept the sensational thumbnails and titles? Hate the game, not the player and all that?

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            5 hours ago

            I don’t think it’s clickbait. if you made a company angry, it’s not that hard to get another 2 strikes too now that they are watching more closely, and it’s very hard if not impossible to get back a channel from that.

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              5 hours ago

              So it was strike 1? And wasn’t strike 3 and the deletion is pending? It’s not the worst stretch of things, but it’s stretching it a little unless the deletion is pending.

              I don’t think your perspective is invalid tho.

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                5 hours ago

                afaik (but take it with a grain of salt) at 3 strikes the decision is not pending but automatic, and very hard to reverse, partly because kost of decision making at youtube has been automatic for a long time, and just like with google they don’t have a support channel (that is easy to find and reach)

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            Just because it’s being normalized by the Linuses and Tech Jesuses on youtube doesn’t mean we shouldn’t call it what it is.

            This video is click bait and the content is rather mid. We’re clearly supposed to feel some kind of outrage over a freedom of press kinda thing, but in reality the video is more like: waaah our ad revenue took a hit on this one video because of Big Evil Company abusing the copyright claim system, NOT FAIR! (Ignoring that this has been happening hundreds if not thousands of times per day for over a decade to much smaller channels than GamersNexus, without a peep from Tech Jesus on the issue).

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              10 hours ago

              I’m actually on your side. I was bringing up those questions to question why they would get upset with be gently applying clickbait label.

              Usually fans of these channels fall in line with the rhetoric.

              But once again, I tried a conversation style that failed when I didn’t get a response from who I was talking to, and I got downvotes.

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                5 hours ago

                sorry, not everyone is browsing lemmy as if it was a full time job. also I’m not a fan of them in that sense. Maybe I have watched 3 of their videos and even that was years ago. I just understand that copyright strikes are very dangerous even for a big channel like that, because independently of how many videos you have, it’s always only 3 strikes you need to get your channel deleted, and if they are mad and start looking it could easily happen.