I think the unskippable and autoplaying ads are the point for me where I start actively finding ways to avoid ads. Anything that tries to force itself in front of my eyes or eclipses the actual content is kind of a no go.
It's not that Youtube creators don't deserve to be compensated (many if whom provide content to YT for free just to share, let's remember) it's that Google needs to find less obnoxious means of serving ads.
I'd be really curious to see the actual numbers of how much Google gets in revenue from YT and how much actually goes to paying creators. I'm betting the ratio is not as slim as they make it sound.
It's theft of labor without any compensation, aimed at cheapening the very value of that labor.
A human artist can, and often does, train simply by looking at the real world. The art they then produce is a result of that knowledge being interpreted and stylized by their own brain and perception. The decision making on how to represent a given subject, what details to add and leave out to achieve an effect, is done by the artist themselves. It's a product of their internal mental laboring.
By contrast, if you trained an AI on photos alone it would never, ever produce anything that looks like a drawing or a piece of art, it would never create a stylized piece of art or make a creative decision of its own.
In order to produce art the AI must be fueled with human created art, that humans labored to produce. The human artists are not being compensated for the use of that labor, and even worse the AI is leveraging that to make the human labor worth less. And what's more, that AI's ability will stagnate without further theft of newer, more novel art and concepts.
Without that keystone of human labor the AI simply can't function.
Ripping off so many people at once and so chaotically that you can't distinguish exactly how any given individual is being exploited doesn't mean those people aren't still being ripped off. The machine that the tech bros created could not exist without the stolen labor of the artists.
It does kind of inadvertently reveal what Republicans and the religious right have to offer in place of Pride; being ashamed of who you are, self-hate.
Show me a left wing community on the Internet where they joke about rape and share videos of beheadings and pictures of dead kids to make jokes about. Where they relentlessly dox women who dare complain about being represented as sex objects in video games and media, harassing them in a coordinated, explicit purpose of driving them to misery or even suicide. Where their memes like "an hero" stem from a literal suicide posted to their community. Show me the left wing equivalent of that trash.
4chan is disgusting, and it's disgusting because of the garbage human beings who hang out there.
How does one achieve the naivety to believe only a single political faction operates like this?
Because literally only one does. There is no bothsides here. 4chan is a cesspool that spawned some of the most awful hate seen on the Internet. Bannon saw the opportunity to there during Gamer Gate and 4chan was a willing springboard for the political disaster unfolding not just in the US but globally.
Fuck 4chan and fuck fascists, there is no giving them a "fair shake", they are not entitled to get their foot in the door.
I'd prefer to express why the downvote was given, since a lot of people aren't fully aware of how the alt-right uses a specific brand of humor to insinuate themselves into communities and that 4chan humor has its basis largely in white supremacist/misogynist/pedophile shit.
The whole point of the humor is to make a bigoted meme, then layer over it again and again until people who aren't "initiated" don't understand that they're basically propagating nazi symbols etc.
It's kind of like how after a while of a community making "ironic" nazi jokes it gets more and more difficult to distinguish the irony from just straight up support for racism. Morons get caught up in that trap, it's how the right recruits skinheads, incels, and proud boys and such, by massaging them into complacency.
Chantard humor and symbols should be rejected wholesale, no reason to allow the fediverse to become a breeding ground for right-wingers like Reddit became.
4chan humor is mostly moldy af in my opinion, plus it links the fediverse to a toxic internet culture.
Reddit's decline further and further into alt-right bullshit was facilitated in part by subs like greentext. The alt-right always tries to use "humor" as a gateway into normal spaces, corrupting them by slowly introducing fashy nonsense as "just jokes bro".
They post this stuff on other social media because their incel kingdom is dying. I say let it die, no need to give them relevance.
Does this one only call for a temporary ceasefire in exchange for the hostages? If so that's still a non-starter and Biden knows it, if Israel isn't withdrawing permanently then it's not really of any benefit to the people of Gaza and the genocide will continue immediately after Israel gets the hostages.
That's why you vote uncommitted. There's no way to ignore that message or use any of their usual excuses.
But the Democrats understand what they need to do in order to win election, they're just so latched to the corporate tit that they won't do it. Think they can get a few more gulps of that sweet lobby money before things get "serious". The pigs are too busy feeding to give a fuck about our democracy collapsing.
Protest voting would be aimed at reforming a democratic party that's unfit to confront fascism. It's a legitimate strategy whether you agree with it or not.
Another Biden term will not do anything to mitigate Democratic complicity with fascism. Establishment dems are quite literally worse than useless.
I've got news, it's not progressives standing in the way of fighting this. It's the morons who cling to "bipartisanship" because they still think this is about protecting the corporate money hose with their GOP pals across the aisle.
Meanwhile every Republican will vote like an ideolouge whether they are ir not. Neoliberalism has failed, utterly and completely, to confront fascism. Instead they bury their heads in the sand, ignore their growing base of Millenials and GenZ, and think they can protect a status quo that's dissolving beneath their feet.
People like you need to wake up. You're not going to get "slow progress" out of the lesser of two evils, you're going to get a negligbly slower slide into fascism. There is no protecting your comfortable bubble at this point.
Yup, I simply will not vote for a Dem who takes AIPAC/Jstreet money or if it's found they're taking money from AIPAC subsidiary groups. Primary, general, doesn't matter it's a hard pass and I'll leave a blank ballot if I have to.
This is pretty much how narcissists think in a nutshell. It's essentially a mental disability that makes them incapable of understanding why they would care about people, especially people who can't adore or praise them (i.e. dead people). Emotional one-way street.
China is not the global south, the hell are you on?
So you're essentially saying exactly what I was criticizing at the very beginning, that China gets a free pass for their emissions and are entitled to pollute, that the climate will forgive them and the US will somehow magically save the day and bail out the second largest economy on the planet while China ramps up their own unsustainable consumer culture.
What are you knuckleheads going to be saying as China continues to shift from manufacturing useless shit for other countries and is instead producing the same shit for their own population? It's literally already happening right this very moment. Is the climate going to give them a pass for those emissions too because "US bad"?
Your politics have made your conception of climate change completely incoherent. The climate simply does not care if China really really wants to be an empire and feels that they're entitled to unsustainable growth. The gas they are producing in their country, both in manufacturing and in their other sectors, is the single largest concrete thing fucking the planet up. The US could finish switching their manufacturing chains away from China tomorrow and China would still be producing massive amounts of emissions.
Yup, you're almost there, now what does that make China then? What makes producing Walmart plastic junk more acceptable in a climate responsible nation?
What puts the actual CO2 into the atmosphere? The product itself or the process and grid powering the creation of that product?
There is no "scapegoat", it's politically and financially impossible for the US to "take responsibility" for China's grid emissions, even tankie's should be able to understand that hard reality.
It's the Chinese energy production that's driving climate change, what they are choosing to do with that energy is irrelevant, whether it's manufacturing for other countries or running a billion surveillance cameras, it's their unsustainable grid that creates the emissions. The US cannot force China upgrade their power grid.
I think the unskippable and autoplaying ads are the point for me where I start actively finding ways to avoid ads. Anything that tries to force itself in front of my eyes or eclipses the actual content is kind of a no go.
It's not that Youtube creators don't deserve to be compensated (many if whom provide content to YT for free just to share, let's remember) it's that Google needs to find less obnoxious means of serving ads.
I'd be really curious to see the actual numbers of how much Google gets in revenue from YT and how much actually goes to paying creators. I'm betting the ratio is not as slim as they make it sound.