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Hmm I'm sensing a theme here...
I think I fell in the other YouTube rabbit hole? My recs are all progressive podcasters, history video essays, and YouTube creator podcasts that complain about YouTube?
Mines basically all nerd shit like physics, ham radio, robotics. And also call me kris.
You probably have William Osman in there right?
Oh yea, the infamous reality rabbithole broadcast from earth1.
humblebrag energy
Loneliness, lack of purpose, which then gets fulfilled by a relatively small community driven by defending and idea, ideology and/or an individual.
Yup, it's the same old song of fascists and cultists.
"Are you lonely, sad, angry, or just generally dissatisfied with your life? Have you tried blaming your problems on a minority with less power in society than yourself? Act now, and I'll throw in a second minority, free!*"
*Just pay shipping and handling.
Interestingly, those are also very common among people showing signs of conspiratorial thinking.
Leftists aren’t immune. My YouTube has a lot of Vaush, Hasan, Sam Seder, etc.
Though I do also get Patrick Bet David and PragerU thrown in too, I think because I can’t help but watch for a window into their line of thinking.
It is not quite the same. It recommends things you watch. If you watch Hasan you tend to get more Hasan stuff but only on rare occasions do you get Vaush stuff.
Back in the day you could watch one non political thunderfoot about some scam and the recommendations would be a rouges gallery of anti-sjws with no other recommendations.
Now you can get radicalized because you want to be and it's a nice saunter down the hill. Then it was a sheer cliff you could accidentally fall into. If you didn't experience it you can't really imagine how stupid it was.
There's a recent documentary movie about that called Bros I suggest you check it out.
Is the theme “cults”?
Close. It's cunts.
Bro! I don't know if there's a theme, bro! But, bro, I'll look into it, bro.
Bro.
Broooooo, that's too much bro for any one bro to have to look into, bro.