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Blasphemy Recommended on YouTube
« on: Yesterday at 09:44:42 AM »
I've seen hundreds of these already.

Re: Blasphemy Recommended on YouTube
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 01:30:22 PM »
I've seen hundreds of these already.
Why don’t you contact YouTube or permanently delete the video. Report it as hate speech or some such DEI violation. Certainly do not click on it. 


Re: Blasphemy Recommended on YouTube
« Reply #2 on: Yesterday at 01:55:35 PM »
Why don’t you contact YouTube or permanently delete the video. Report it as hate speech or some such DEI violation. Certainly do not click on it.
Not how that works. They make $1000s a month off of ad revenue and YouTube gets a huge chunk of it. There are 100s of accounts doing this, generating possibly millions of dollars from gullible people for both YouTube and the channel owners.

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Re: Blasphemy Recommended on YouTube
« Reply #3 on: Yesterday at 02:15:23 PM »
It's very frustrating when you stop and think about it -- it's enough to make you "give up" at least on Capitalism, when you realize just how BROKEN the system is.

Meanwhile, if you spend hundreds of hours learning the Traditional Catholic Faith, meditating, pursuing wisdom, and create videos with a lot of good information/wisdom, you will get minimal traffic and make about $1.50 after 10 months of cranking out 1 video per week (each video taking about 3 hours of your time).

Being serious, trying to do good, and hard work in general is NOT rewarded. Not if you insist on doing something objectively good (aligned with God and His law)

It's completely ass-backwards. Complete idiots make tons of money putting out mindless slop and degenerate/empty/waste of time content, and a Bishop Williamson wouldn't make anything, either in views or ad revenue.

So the more objective useful or valuable something is, the less "the public" values it or pays it any attention. The smart move is clearly to aim for the lowest common denominator, putting out content idiots will watch, and basically drive the general public and the culture EVER LOWER making things worse over time.

I have some sympathy for extremists who wonder out loud what the answer is -- "accelerate and hope for something better after the rebuild?" Communism? Something has to be better than this. I sympathize.

Re: Blasphemy Recommended on YouTube
« Reply #4 on: Yesterday at 08:14:10 PM »
The average individual can have no influence on YouTube. So decide for yourself. Is there enough good on it to keep it? Is it a near source of temptation to you or to those who have access to it through you? Has it caused you or those in your care to sin?  Are you continually scandalized by it? If the answer is ‘yes’ to all but the first question, delete the app. Get rid of it. People lived, even thrived before YouTube!  
If you benefit from it, can be selective without losing your peace of mind, haven’t sinned because of it, and haven’t negatively influenced others, then keep it.  I mostly listen to sermons and conferences, watch the occasional docuмentary, listen to music, take classes, use it for practical matters, like learning how to collapse a self-erecting tent, learn a specific craft like sewing, knitting, crocheting, or learn handy household “hacks.”  As for YT generated recommendations, I glance over them on occasion, click on if something looks interesting. If it turns out to be a waste of time, offensive, questionable, or just plain stupid, I don’t continue watching. I forget about these sort of junk videos. Most of what’s “Recommended for You” they get wrong. I really only limit myself to sites to which I’ve subscribed.