I actually watched matt's channel before this whole ordeal and it was quite the mess i must say so, his videos were ok


He doesn't need to have been a plant the entire time. It's not impossible for him to have just met some suit a con and arranged for massive pay-off to do the thing.

Also, I'm not so sure about your logic of his success being evidence of duplicity. It's entirely possible that he got more traction than other youtubers BECAUSE he targeted advertisers. Yes that's a bad strategy that harms creators of all stripes more than it does YT itself, but it is effective at getting the attention of other media (which is also funded by advertisers). Those traditional media outlets have incentive to hype the youtube boycott because it gives them leverage over those same advertisers, without them needing to be directly in on some grander plot.


I appreciate the candid commentary by you


Always knew something was fishy about him. I thought maybe ignoring him was the best option, but as usual it would have been better to destroy him.


I’m about 2/3rds in the video, but I feel like this guy was working for YouTube to screw small creators by giving them an excuse to cut paying them. It makes a ton of unfortunate sense to me.


I watched it all but I was really happy to hear Let There Be Light - Justice talking about his alternative motive.


49:39 Just want to point out that it took almost 100 years before the public found out about the Lusitania, so I can easily believe a large group of people can keep quiet about this.


35:12 and 41:16 I theorized that Matt's vendetta is not out jealousy, it's that he got sick and disillusioned of the state and culture of Youtube along with its users then thought "screw everyone on this site! I'm gonna ruin everyone's parties. from the CEO to the unregistered visitors"

I think it was jealousy based on how he acted


please please try to upload more frequently I love this content


The second theory makes the most sense. He knew all the lingo right wingers use, especially “Muh [insert here]”, frequents a subreddit which has endorsed harming YouTube for giving right wingers a voice, and went after specific youtubers that are seen as “problematic” in his live-streams.


In my opinion, Internet Responsibility should have the same value as Driving, which cannot just be given around to people and needs at least adequate knowledge to be consented to. Adults shouldn't just hand kids this responsibility when they're not fully aware of what they're getting themselves into. <br>Also, It annoys me how most parents don't know YouTube kids exist and instead let them use the actual app/site. And now we gotta adjust "for the kids" in a site which is not usually "for the kids".

In my opinion, Internet Responsibility should have the same value as Driving, which cannot just be given around to people and needs at least adequate knowledge to be consented to. Adults shouldn't just hand kids this responsibility when they're not fully aware of what they're getting themselves into.
Also, It annoys me how most parents don't know YouTube kids exist and instead let them use the actual app/site. And now we gotta adjust "for the kids" in a site which is not usually "for the kids".

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The only way I can describe EmpLemon's voice is that he sounds like he definitely mains scout in TF2


Totally off topic from the main discussion here: Still laughing my ass off from the Brian Griffin DORIYAH moment there.


Another fantastic analysis of something a year out of date. Unsubscribe💕


I don't care how evil and unlikable he was. How he did it and the fact that it worked and that he probably made a lot of money doing it is pretty cool. It's like a bank robbery movie: The protagonist is a piece of crap but it's still cool


My memory may be failing me, and this is a great video, but isn’t the Youtube Geographic supposed to be a factual retelling rather than an argumentative? Not that big of a deal, but I’d like some yt history lessons some time.


"I am not the villain in this story. I do, what I do, because there is no choice."


matt Watson YOUVE BECOME THE VERY THING YOU SWORE TO DESTROY


You have a great taste in music, my friend.


emp, maybe when you hit 1mil, you could do a face reveal? just suggesting<br>also nice video, you never fail to satisfy

emp, maybe when you hit 1mil, you could do a face reveal? just suggesting
also nice video, you never fail to satisfy


If he was a poltergeist his presence would be felt more not less... but yeah I get your point


probably one of the best videos on youtube to exist


<i>I fear that EmpLemon got on some list somewhere by making this video.</i>

_I fear that EmpLemon got on some list somewhere by making this video._


I do agree with you message, but this is more of a persuasive/argument than a “YouTube geographic”. Dont get me wrong, i agree


I love the Garbodors music in the background during some parts of the video. Really neat.


I feel like i've seen this video recommended to me before like a month ago+ but I realize that nope, i just confused it for another one of EmpLemon's amazing videos!
19:35 other big yters vids who talked about topic yee


And yet another amazing fucking video, cant wait to see more content!


Emp’s background music is always top notch


So  it was all a complot made by the big companies to hurt youtubers because this has become a huge source of free content for the general audience ?


I’ve never even heard of this guy and I really doubt this controversy surrounding Matt (not pedos on youtube in general) is comparable to the logan paul suicide forest stuff


Having seen some real proper dark shit using tor i can kind of see where he was coming from, theirs forum's for pedo's that specifically hunt down the kind of videos he was talking about and pack them together into categorical "sets" of a dozen or so similar videos for distribution. Haven spoken with a number of these people they just seem deranged, they make it out like finding these videos is a full time job for them and often bragged about finding specific "rare" videos.

Its pretty sick and has apparently been going on for long before any of the controversy's and is probably still going on. I'd rather not go down that rabbit hole again to find out.


NErc City brought me here! What a great channel!!


This series could honestly get a netflix deal

Elune It’d be neutered to the point of losing what makes it unique. I mean this episode did deal with the ‘corporate’ side of things.


this is a very bold accusation, but im just some random guy on youtube comments so i will say it:<br>i feel like this guy wanted a reason to go down that wormhole.

this is a very bold accusation, but im just some random guy on youtube comments so i will say it:
i feel like this guy wanted a reason to go down that wormhole.


basically youtube sold someone a plot of land and the users built a crack factory on it.


I clicked on this video knowing full well what it was<br>But when the "down the rabbit hole" ambiance played my mind went "Oh boy cant wait for this 'Down the Rabbit Hole' video"

I clicked on this video knowing full well what it was
But when the "down the rabbit hole" ambiance played my mind went "Oh boy cant wait for this 'Down the Rabbit Hole' video"


Using The Doors' Alabama Song for the credits
Absolute fucking genius {look up the lyrics if you dont get it}

*Using The Doors' Alabama Song for the credits*
Absolute fucking genius {look up the lyrics if you dont get it}


how have I not heard about this until now? when did this happen?


Why worry about the corona when <b>emp lemon releases another hour of god-tier documentary video essays</b>

Why worry about the corona when *emp lemon releases another hour of god-tier documentary video essays*


This is better journalism than most actual journalism nowadays.


I tought this was a YouTube Red Series

Soldier : Dear God

Spy: There´s More

Me: No..


When you search Wikipedia for the word "pariah"... there's no written definition, just a picture of Matt Whatitis.


43:10 There aint no Atlas kid. Never was.
Maybe Matt was a combination of the theories, burnt out youtuber who became a shill who discuised himaelf as a proletaret hero.


I think the most obvious answer is the most likely. He had an emotional reaction to finding what he thought to be a pedophile ring, which led to him trying to stop it in an unproductive and poorly thought-out way while also wanting to feel like a part of a greater movement. The Youtube platform just happened to be the scapegoat to direct his rage at since he couldn't figure out how to combat individual users (or overlooked that as a viable option).  This developed into an unhealthy obsession with his goal and he became shortsighted and stubborn since he was already in too deep on his crusade. Bascicaly just emotion coupled with ignorance.


Haha omg you included the MDE <OMITTED> track, awesome!


I'm not squeamish and pretty desensitized to most things at this point, but the baby monkey thing genuinely disturbed me.


No constructive criticism, but I'm leaving a comment anyway for the algorithm. Great as always!


OMG I can’t believe THE Matt Watson from SuperMega did all this


Idk about this dude and his motivations but YouTube rabbit holes are definitely real. You can find actual hardcore pornography that has remained uploaded for months if you happen to slip into the right lanes in the algorithm. They are just as easy to slip out of so copy the links as soon as you see them for proof if you do happen to come across one. They DO NOT stay in your watched history. Having seen this video I wish I did that for the case I found or at the very least got a screenshot.

The name of the video was “orang” and it showed up in the search results after watching a long string of esoteric “meme man” style videos. It was listed as having been uploaded for 3 months at the time I spotted it and only stayed accessible for one search. Honestly it’s the perfect system for smuggling content as it’s perfectly plausibly deniable. Only a few people are ever exposed to them at any one time and YouTube has their asses legally covered.


He's correct that Youtube should do more, though. Youtube/Google are the owners and creators of some of the most advanced algorithms and machine learning programs on the internet. Youtube will detect if anything you post belongs to Viacom and slam you almost immediately, assuming it didn't detect the precious copy right infringement the moment you hit upload. If your neighbor is playing a song owned by some big record lable and the audio frequency is captured by your speakers at such a low level that only a dog could hear it, you're screwed: Youtube knows what you've done. Chatroulette created a program that could identify penises so that you weren't getting a fat neckbeard jacking it every time you tried to talk with someone, but Google can't spend two seconds making a program that would block all of these videos kids upload of themselves half naked during a slumber party? The problem has been known about since 2009 when /b/ figured out you could generate Cheese Pizza by simply filtering Youtube search results by most recently uploaded and, bam, a bunch of 8 year olds showing themselves off "playing dressup". I think they genuinely just don't care and are more concerned with banning the ever increasing genre of Orwellian crime-think commonly labeled in academia as racism and sexism than banning this soft-core pornography.

Also, pro-tip to parents: Teach you kid not to upload their face, name, or address to ANYTHING on the internet. Not to Facebook, not to Youtube, not to the nice man who wants to give you candy, none of it. Christ, we knew this in the 90's, the hell is wrong with people today?


wait a second, that opening seems familliar


Damn if they're paying people to be plants, I could use a phat check right about now.


the inside job/agent theory exploited my brain.


just like what happens to leafy. he didnt directly told his fans give death threats to some content creator but he must take responsibility


>Kik is still up

Proves he does he research, especially when he always slams iF, while never actually using it


I think I have my own thoery who Matt is and that he is trying to stop freelacers thriveing on the platform. There’s a workers union that exist in calafronia that hates freelacers and attempts to unionized many freelacers and company’s as possible “remember this is calafronia were google is located” in fact this union is so powerful it lobbied a Person into the calfronia state government to make freelancers according in her own words “employees because being a freelancer is not a real job”  I think this guy ether was with this workers union or more likely was not with them but had a similar agenda to them and when it was clear his plan wasn’t working he left the internet all together. Tho that is just my theory. In other words he’s hates freelacers


23:45: A slight typo in the "Could do" section. Nitpicky, I know, but double, maybe triple checking text helps.


i came when i heard gyroscope from boards. i love your music sense so much. esprit too, my god.


This is unrelated, but if I have to hear him say “wormhole” I’m going to dropkick myself out of a window.

Joshua Hale Who Matt or Emp?

Also, I’m guessing you did drop kick yourself since you haven’t updated anything.


"Matt Watson" scared me hard cuz I thought you were talking about SuperMega


This video reminded me about the earn it bill trying to pass in Congress


He was a plant for the third party ad safety agency.


From Youtube Pooper to Youtube Documentarian.


Company: Money
YouTube: More money for me
Company: No
YouTube: Okay okay less money


11:35: check the like-dislike ratio, I am no youtuber, but when you do a followup video, and you have that happening after 3M+ views initially, seems kinda sketchy...


My only issue w this is if he knew advertisers were gonna pull ads why was he so elated when they did?

The theory states that he was hired by these companies to make a big scene so they had an excuse to pull ads. So if he was unsuccessful in drawing this attention they probably wouldn’t pay him.


23:30
This is basically the same as witnessing a murder and not reporting it for fear of beeing convinced?


Matt Watson of superme- oh..<br>Nevermind.


Some people just want to sit back and watch the world burn


Lmao did he just... did he misspell grammarly? As in, the grammar and <b>spell checking</b> tool?

Lmao did he just... did he misspell grammarly? As in, the grammar and *spell checking* tool?


Wait was that guy actually emplemon on the commercial?


im new here, was the opening supposed to be reminiscent of the "down the rabbit hole" series or am i fucking stupid?


Ayy bruh someone gotta let matt know about the kiddy prawn discords and 4chan lmao


What happens in spring should stay in spring


I didnt understand. But it was beacause i wasnt paying enough attention. Im sure the video is amazing tho. Very high iq.


nice music all over this video. heard that Boards of Canada coming on and chubbed up a lil bit.


Let's be real, this dude was just salty and bitter about not being able to make money off of youtube and not becoming the next big YouTuber, so he ruined it for everyone else. Pretty glaringly obvious!

Fancy seeing you here. Also, I agree. Dude’s scam worked.


This is like i fucking sherlock episode. I dont understand but i like it a lot.


"won't somebody think of the leftytubers?"

@plasmicats it isn't only right economically, but it absolutely is culturally

JayBe fascism isn’t only right, it’s quite Center economically. Some on the left, some on the right. I would put classic fascism in totalitarian Center

@JayBe Look up state capitalism. Why would you get it solely from Wikipedia?

LJK401 can you kindly cite any source that proves Stalin was a capitalist because I just read through Stalin’s Wikipedia page and he seemed pretty anti-capitalist to me. Burden of proof falls on you because I guarantee you that most people feel he’s a socialist. Also, while I understand that the political compass is flawed, the whole concept of left vs right derived from it. If you don’t want to talk about directional politics then let’s not. Just talk about American political parties and ideologies in a vacuum. I’m 18 but I don’t think that’s really reason to write off this argument.

LJK401 authoritarianism is what I mean by dictatorship. Stalin was authoritarian, Hitler was Authoritarian, but Stalin was a socialist while Hitler was a capitalist. See how that works? If you take just a basic look at a political compass, I think you’ll notice that the LEFT side of the compass is socialism while the RIGHT side is capitalism, yet things can be authoritarian or anarchist for EITHER side. These concepts are UP and DOWN, they aren’t sided. Now, if you’re talking about the American political parties, I’ll have you know that Democrats are more socialist and are also more authoritarian (raising taxes) than republicans who are more capitalist and anti authoritarian (less taxes)

@JayBe Totalitarianism is a right-wing ideology, it literally revolves around conserving the social order

@JayBe Look up him and Lenin's thoughts on capitalism and a vanguard party

LJK401 fascism is not the same as dictatorship. You can be a right wing dictator or a left wing dictator. Fascist dictators are only right though. Also show me where Stalin supported Capitalism

@CyberNinjaZero You probably think fascism is left-wing when even Wikipedia says it's right-wing and they also call Stalin a dictator

@CyberNinjaZero Stalin WAS right-wing, he believed in nationalism, hierarchy, racial dominance, and capitalism

@LJK401 >Right
>When "Liberals Get the bullet too" is an Antifa (Lefty) expression
Ah yes from the "Stalin was right wing" school of never admitting fault

@Megakillerx Lol you like TJ Kirk videos

@Megakillerx Lol so much for the tolerant right


Such is life of a Reddit Normalman. Things gotta crash for a moral crusade


So, basically, Matthew 'Jarbo Junior' Ward.


Was this intro intending to blatantly rip off Fredrik Knudsen’s Down the Rabbit Hole?


It's weird I used to watch his nofap videos before all this started


To me, it's all three, a failed leftist Youtuber hired as an industry plant


I thought one of the theories would have been that he was actually a pedophile. Smh

He sucks but accusing him of the most hated type of 'people' can really be terrible. No need to accuse him of being a pedo.


What's the song at 47:22 also great video


Common communist philosophy is that cooperations (Or the bourgeoisie for those literate folks) only can be disheartened by the removal of their economic support, this is mostly prevalent in communist spaces, but it's a general philosophy to all leftists. When people encourage advertisers to pull from Fox News for example, the intention is that this is the only way to hurt the cooperation (Whether it works or not is debatable). The problem comes with YouTube and other video platforms, who owns that content? Strong arguments can be given for both sides, but, economically, the creator owns more of the content than the cooperation. This would be considered a "Semi-Democratic System", where people control a majority (But not a large majority) of the economic output, any good communist would notice the flaw in this plan and would be against it.


Is the wormhole deeper than the downward spiral


glad this got recommended, cuz i didn't get notified


Emp- i think ur sub count is stuck at 500,000 since last year


wasnt expecting 1539 n calvert to start playing lmao


This guy is the reason hollywood blackeash redheads.


This is such an odd coincidence. Why? I got bored today and sorted the front page of reddit by "top of all time". Scrolling down, i found Matts video. I clicked, i watched, and was disgusted. I scrolled down to the comments, and was strangely surprised by the amount of comments from "1 day ago", even though the video came out almost a year ago. And most of these comments were shitting on Matt. I was confused as shit as to why they were shitting on someone doing a great thing, and someone recommended me to your video. For the first portion of your video, i was disgusted as to why you werent focused on the good he was doing. Then as you went deeper into the rabbit hole, and started pointing out inconsistencies in his logic, it becomes apparent he had some other motive for making the video. And the only reason i found this video, was because i just so happened to find his video, the day after you uploaded this, explaining his bullshit. Had i found his video 2 days ago, i would have thought he was a great guy, not understanding all the other youtubers hate twoard him.

I’m glad you didn’t rage in the comments and watched through the video for the whole story and research.

Lots of respect.


I'm actually French and this is the first time any English speaking youtuber mentioned a French youtuber thx

Shyguymask is French and a pretty popular gaming channel. Not the 'OMG' but as a guy who does challenges, puts on white text, and doesn't seem greedy. Watch his Q&A video.


Why does Matt’s voice sound so much like fucking DSP’s voice?


His voice kinda sounds like DSP's which furthers my annoyance with him


Down the Spiral? You mean Down the Rabbit Hole


Donald Morgan true, he is almost autistic and tends to become very emotionally into whatever the fuck He’s taking about and dramatic shit lol.

Tony_ δυτικός αμυντικός


okay so here's what you need to do, youtubers:
Form. A. Union. A peaceable assembly to redress grievances COLLECTIVELY.
This union would have the resources to address Youtube management from a position of STRENGTH.
REACH OUT TO MATPAT. The Game Theorists / Film Theory kid? Yeah. Him. He's making GREAT strides in this direction.


Why is your intro exactly identical to Fredrik Knudsen's.....?


I think he was just butthurt because his shitty excuse for satire wasn't giving him any notoriety. The video was probably a last ditch effort to gain some attention so he could ride the high. He probably wasn't a corporate plant, but as you said, they would have been ecstatic to exploit the controversy since they badmouth YouTube whenever they get the chance.

I went through a fairly pathedic "self help" phase a couple years back and I actually remember running into Matt's channel. I couldn't bring myself to watch for more than five minutes. It was just some chubby manchild screaming to a camera and recording himself walking through public parks. I never thought he would amount to anything. If only I knew.

You were right, he didnt amount to anything.


when people switch to dailymotion, youtube will die

Dailymotion is pretty bad tbh. Pornhub has a better chance of taking over YT

Eesa But...no one will, and plus I think dailymotion is shutting down.


Nice to see some TF2 stuff in the intro, thanks mate.

@I SELL SALT its good to see someone thats neutral

When's 'There will Never Ever be another game like TF2' comin out?<br>Although honestly I feel TouHou is somehow the perfect sibling

When's 'There will Never Ever be another game like TF2' comin out?
Although honestly I feel TouHou is somehow the perfect sibling


My stance on the "issue" of children being exposed to dangerous users on the internet was always that it was a non issue. I think that if someone decides to put themselves out on the internet, then they're assuming the risks of doing so, regardless of their age. If you're a girl who goes on a streaming site, and you show your titties for money, then you shouldn't be surprised when a bunch of creepy desperate guys start messaging you and threatening to hack your computer or burn your house down if you don't send them nudes. Actions have consequences, it's how everything works in the natural world. The thing that's great about the Internet is that it's, in it's purest form, natural: it's wild west. Theoretically if you're smart with how you operate, then you should be able to avoid ending up in a bad spot: it's a game of survival. It's my opinion is that kids who cheat the system, and put themselves out there regardless of warnings, are assuming the risks and understand the consequences; and that's true for every site.  If you're a six year old going onto Team Fortress 2 and start talking shit and screaming the N word, then you should know that some guy might be streaming and your complete breakdown might be shown live to hundreds of people for their amusement. Child predators are awful people, I get that, but the fact of the matter is that they exist, and henceforth, exist on the internet. Kids who go on the internet should assume the risk that they may be targeted by child predators, I don't think that warrants banning children because I think that is some pussy shit. Let the kids learn some god damn agency and independence. Society is so fucking sanitary, so fucking clean and safe, so dishonest and plastic. The closest thing to the natural dangers of the real natural world is the internet.  I don't think I've seen people grow in maturity as quickly as I've seen people on the internet grow in maturity. I genuinely think that there are 13 year olds that exist today who, thanks to the internet, have more wisdom and life experience than any 50 year old. I think that the internet is only the beginning of what is the natural evolution of humanity, and in robbing children of the internet, you are doing more harm to humanity than you can ever imagine. Someday, and I say this earnestly, I think we should all be absorbed into the internet and become one with it. Immortalized in a cyber web. I am against any and all regulation of the internet, because I think that letting the internet evolve, and whatever it's natural evolution turns humanity into, is only the proper result. Never before in history have so many consciences across the world been so close to one another: like a collective of thinking machines forming into a greater pool of logic, we are now truly exposed to all of our imperfections and vices. Through the internet, we see humanity's darkest sides, as well as it's greatest sides. Which one you choose to see is up to you, but becoming too focused on one or the other can be dangerous. If you wish to see something on the internet, you will inevitably find it, and you'll find more and more of it: and even if you fight to make it go away temporarily, the reality is that the issue still exists outside of the internet. Just because the woman killing her cat, and showed it on Facebook was arrested, doesn't mean that people no longer abuse animals. We think that just because we can't see an issue, that it doesn't exist, but humanities evils know no bounds. That being said, our charitability and kindness are also limitless, and thanks to the internet: it's easier to help people than ever before.  Just like a spaghetti western: the endless sands of a desert are home to cannibals and rapists, but also heroes with strong moral codes and big irons on their hip. You cannot control the nature of that, but you can decide, as an individual, which one you want to be.

My stance on the "issue" of children being exposed to dangerous users on the internet was always that it was a non issue. I think that if someone decides to put themselves out on the internet, then they're assuming the risks of doing so, regardless of their age. If you're a girl who goes on a streaming site, and you show your titties for money, then you shouldn't be surprised when a bunch of creepy desperate guys start messaging you and threatening to hack your computer or burn your house down if you don't send them nudes. Actions have consequences, it's how everything works in the natural world. The thing that's great about the Internet is that it's, in it's purest form, natural: it's wild west. Theoretically if you're smart with how you operate, then you should be able to avoid ending up in a bad spot: it's a game of survival. It's my opinion is that kids who cheat the system, and put themselves out there regardless of warnings, are assuming the risks and understand the consequences; and that's true for every site.  If you're a six year old going onto Team Fortress 2 and start talking shit and screaming the N word, then you should know that some guy might be streaming and your complete breakdown might be shown live to hundreds of people for their amusement. Child predators are awful people, I get that, but the fact of the matter is that they exist, and henceforth, exist on the internet. Kids who go on the internet should assume the risk that they may be targeted by child predators, I don't think that warrants banning children because I think that is some pussy shit. Let the kids learn some god damn agency and independence. Society is so fucking sanitary, so fucking clean and safe, so dishonest and plastic. The closest thing to the natural dangers of the *real natural world* is the internet.  I don't think I've seen people grow in maturity as quickly as I've seen people on the internet grow in maturity. I genuinely think that there are 13 year olds that exist today who, thanks to the internet, have more wisdom and life experience than any 50 year old. I think that the internet is only the beginning of what is the natural evolution of humanity, and in robbing children of the internet, you are doing more harm to humanity than you can ever imagine. Someday, and I say this earnestly, I think we should all be absorbed into the internet and become one with it. Immortalized in a cyber web. I am against any and all regulation of the internet, because I think that letting the internet evolve, and whatever it's natural evolution turns humanity into, is only the proper result. Never before in history have so many consciences across the world been so close to one another: like a collective of thinking machines forming into a greater pool of logic, we are now truly exposed to all of our imperfections and vices. Through the internet, we see humanity's darkest sides, as well as it's greatest sides. Which one you choose to see is up to you, but becoming too focused on one or the other can be dangerous. If you wish to see something on the internet, you will inevitably find it, and you'll find more and more of it: and even if you fight to make it go away temporarily, the reality is that the issue still exists outside of the internet. Just because the woman killing her cat, and showed it on Facebook was arrested, doesn't mean that people no longer abuse animals. We think that just because we can't see an issue, that it doesn't exist, but humanities evils know no bounds. That being said, our charitability and kindness are also limitless, and thanks to the internet: it's easier to help people than ever before.  Just like a spaghetti western: the endless sands of a desert are home to cannibals and rapists, but also heroes with strong moral codes and big irons on their hip. You cannot control the nature of that, but you can decide, as an individual, which one *you* want to be.

@Dared Rogers yup. Parenting is hard, but shit like this isn't. Putting the family computer in a communal space and not giving kids smartphones until they're teens is pretty basic.

Daga Qtawaru the question is when will you have your kids? I think the generation that is 7 and younger will be mostly children with <b>constant</b> access to the internet and we have yet to see what results this will have on them in their teens and young adult lives. If you can wait 10 more years to have kids, you may feel very differently about the state of social media and how it affects the growing generation.

Daga Qtawaru the question is when will you have your kids? I think the generation that is 7 and younger will be mostly children with *constant* access to the internet and we have yet to see what results this will have on them in their teens and young adult lives. If you can wait 10 more years to have kids, you may feel very differently about the state of social media and how it affects the growing generation.

@birthdayGnat Here is my opinion on how to fix this now, this is from a person who spent most of their time online as a kid using Pbskids.org and Nickjr.com and only used Yt for Creatures and Petz lets plays and never have messed with social media besides one Facebook account my mom gave me so that way I could talk to my family members more (I lived really faraway from them)  so I might not fully understand your problems but here's my two cents;
Just supervise them have only be on kid friendly sites that you know are safe like the sites I motion above and there also this thing my Dad did the monitor of the computer was a Tv that was in the living room so if I wanted to watch something bad I wouldn't be label to not that I ever wanted to watch Porn or anything like that like ever and as time goes and when you think their trust worthy you can let them have more and more freedom.

@Jack Orlove more like "based post-singularity post"

I mainly agree, but keep in mind all the Mommy Vloggers or channels like Daddy Of Five who basically broadcast every moment of their kids' lives online without consent. If a kid chooses to go online that's one thing, but I've deadass seen moms put pictures on social media of their kids in the bathtub or taking a shit.

I'm sorry but I WILL never ever sacrifice my sisters because they're 'dumb'. Yes, every action has a consequence but kids are easily manipulated and disobey laws because that's how their minds work! They can't survive by their own, there's a reason why they need parents. Kids are innocent. Dumb? Sure. Their fault? No, that's how any childs' minds work.

Basically we need to educate and communicate with each other more. I've been saying this for years and that discription fits the internet perfectly! Only issue is that it'll never replace the intamacy of a face to face converstaion...

I'll admit straight up now that I am one the people you are describing in your post, albiet somewhat loosely, but still. I was very ignorant of how dangerous the internet could be, was exposed to a lot of stuff and questioned a lot of moral things I might not have.

Long story short, I've finally come to terms with all of it, I'm better now over all. Though something I had to learn was that dispite all I've been through, it might have been something nessesary. Like if I had no internet access, I might have had to learn everything the same way in real life, except it would have took longer and been harder. In laymans terms I had to realize that the internet wasn't to blame (for the most part) but this whole situation was my fault, I wasn't being responsible enough and I didn't have the self-awareness to realize it (which I wasn't even aware of THAT cause I tend to be self-aware of how I am in real life and blindly assumed the same for online interactions.).

Case in point talk to people you genuinely trust before you go on a mindless adventure online for several years. Even if you end up thinking that your parents are wrong about everything or some crap, at least listen to what they tell you, after all they are the only ones who will still (hopefully) be there for you when everyone else abandons you if your life doesn't play out right (well they should anyways)

I'll wrap this up. Basically what I'm saying is that we should aim for the truth above all else, protect your kids sure, but only do so so that they can become strong, that's more important than being safe. (Like what's the point of being safe if you don't do anything with that safety?)


This is why Reddit should be purged smh.


"What is that a political refernce? Get with it google, i dont want politics on MY platform" please dont skewer me its a game grumps joke


Ngl that ending gave me huge whiplash. The industry plant thing came absolutely out of nowhere and went from a retrospective into baseless speculation and conspiracy.


I need all my bitches same color as drakee


YouTube shows right wing content.... when you go looking for right wing content 🤷♀

@Spencer Easton about what? It's just strange to have them recommended even though they're not really interesting (though HBomberGuy is quite entertaining)

I seem to get a strange mix of always having some random videos from a left wing channel in my recommended  but get auto played onto Nigel Farage while never watching any breadtube.

@Nick Name If you watch youtubers like black pigeon, then you're probably gonna get quite a few response videos from leftist youtubers at some point just due to similarity of topics. Same goes for right wings responding to leftists.

@Nick Name I watch alt-hype, JF, etc., Who are much further right than BPS, but I still get recommendations for Contra and HBomberGuy

@Huns With Guns Crowder allows more radical people onto his channel

@D Walsh none of those channels you listed are "far right" if think they're far right you've got some issue.

YouTube literally promotes the young Turks and other orange man bad late night shows.

I wish that was the case , youtube has never showed a left leaning youtuber in my recomendations.....lots of right wingers tho

@Lindybeige, Destroyer of Fr*gs Yes, those are reactionary channels.

Thats right tho, I watch lefty YouTubers and stuff like Metokur, SomeBlackGuy, etc pops up

I mean, that's why people are The Quartering or one angry gamer are a part of the pipeline. they bridge the gap between normal content (gaming, in this case) and reactionary channels (like crowder, Sargon, or Shapiro)

@Daniel yehoshua by right wing, what do you mean? It might depend on what you watch, because if it's stuff like blackpidgeonspeaks then I doubt you'd get left wing recommendations

Maybe it could be that both left and right wing videos would be marked as "political", and in some cases, it's enough for the algorithm to link them despite other differences.

I watch center to right wing content and I get left wing stuff recommended. It’s about the similarities in topics and naming, I least that’s what I’ve found.

@Zevaron XZ I usually get the reverse, i.e. left wing content recommended on right wing videos. YouTube statistics show that the algorithm recommends left wing content far more to centrists and right wingers than vice versa, and left wing content gets far more recommendations in general than centrist or right wing content, the latter of which gets recommended the least.

@Zevaron XZ It could have something to do with the title. Most Ben Shapiro videos are titled something like, "Ben DEMOLISHES LEFT WING with FACTS and LOGIC." But I don't know how important words in the title are in terms of recommendations.

I watch left wing political content and i get ben shapiro videos in my reccomended even when i havent watched a left wing channel in weeks


I didn't expect r/chapotraphouse to be brought up, but somehow it doesn't surprise me


Bro is that a frederick knixon reference???


40:00 I see that you enjoy Boards Of Canada, EmpLemon. Especially Gyroscope.


I love that you're playing the Doors in the background


35 minutes in and you only just now have a vaporwave song? What kind of vaporwave documentary channel is this?


Of course he's Canadian.<br>Why am I not surprised.

Of course he's Canadian.
Why am I not surprised.


Why does 1539 n calvert just start playing 2/3rds the way through the video


No one talking about the "down the rabbit hole intro"?

Scrolled around to see if anyone noticed :D<br>Definitely inspired by the Fredrik Knudsen series!

Scrolled around to see if anyone noticed :D
Definitely inspired by the Fredrik Knudsen series!


The question really is, how far down the spiral do you want to go?


I see zero value in coming to the defense of youtube, despite all of the asinine demonization hits, copyright rules and censorship dogshit that plagues the site


>It was on the front page of Reddit<br>I could tell there was trouble in the water just from that

>It was on the front page of Reddit
I could tell there was trouble in the water just from that


matt: watchs children sucking ice pops

youtube: reccomends videos related

matt: "im disgusted with youtube"

matt: *watchs children sucking ice pops*

youtube: *reccomends videos related*

matt: "im disgusted with youtube"


Emplemon:
YouTube: I-
Emplemon:
I HAVE
HAAAAAAAAAAD IT-

I have aaaalways wanted to tell you...

WHERES
MY
SUPER
SUIT?!


Tbh I expected Matt to be a member of thebluepill lol

Burndinorex It’s probably a troll to be honest....

Though given current circumstances of society, I feel like that dude my be serious.

@LJK401 Do you even know me? How tf can you even make that assercion?

Somebody's mad not everyone shares their hatred of women


Kik is defunct? could have sworn it was still up like a week ago. Guarantee that app is dead asf (in terms of community) tho.

I didn't even know this app existed till this video


anyone else hear that peggy in the background? 37:30


@【 Chilael 】 the songs are in the description

Does anyone knows the name/instrumental? I was only able to find this https://open.spotify.com/album/4h2wxnxE00xtaJfugFvaZw reverse-searching with my phone.


19:57 kik isn't  defunct. It's  still around  aftee being acquired  by  MediaLab


I look up anime and suddenly I'm in the hentai wormhole


32:06 Why did you put a video of DarkSydePhil


Why is Emplemon green<br>Answer: Green Simpsons return

Why is Emplemon green
Answer: Green Simpsons return


Anyone else notice how many children were in his recommended? only two clicks, yes but i could do that and my recommended would not be filled with children


Who is stupid enough to look up Club Penguin with CP?!?!?


Nazi Radical; Noun. Defenition: everyone right wing of Vladimir Lenin


Good video. Except you've mad your point at like 10, maybe 20 minutes mark.