You tube are playing dirty.....
I'm sure we are all aware of the new you tube algorithms that are basically 'shadow banning' small independent channels, by offering up what they call 'authoritative' news sources they feel are relative to your preferences. Grrrr.
Sources like CNN, MSNBC, BBC and Washington post. (never seen Wapo before!)
By their own definition of what constitutes authoritative sources , it is abundantly clear what game is goin' on. But it ain't no game...
The attempt to shut down free speech, but just not calling it censorship - as its not. Its hiding one gem under a shit heap of shit, and expecting you to find it... if you really want to.
Well, I did a little bit of an experiment on this....(see table below).
My internet connection is pretty fast, and consistent...(when it's not on a power cut),
This is by no means empirical evidence, but I do not believe in coincidences.
And looking at the table below, even using the term 'coincidence' is farcical.
In the age of 'gnat like attention span', this is a strategy that could effectively stop people watching the material they want, and 'persuade' them to watch material You tube think you should be watching..
These are links taken of the +recommend for you+ list, at the side of a current playing you tube channel...
(who would ask for a CNN link while watching Alex Jones?!?)
The loading time are approx - but we know the speed these things take on our own comps.
I also ran the loading times experiment at the same time, on a second computer (within seconds).
(scientific study or what? lol)
The charts are crap, ok - I know.
Read the bloody message and stop whining about the messenger!
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Thought-provoking post to say the least. Would be interesting to have data over a longer period of time for more accurate conclusions. The charts can be crappy, who cares, they definitely piqued my interest as long as the data is there. The trend does look alarming.
Funnily enough i was just listening to an episode of Hello Internet where they were discussion how youtube are changing your subscription feed so that it shows your subscriptions in some kind of weird order that they think is best for you. Seems like everything they do lately is targetted at the big fish and not the people trying to make a start on there.
It's a scary turn of events...
Something to add to your Google manipulation of YouTube research...
What I've discovered, you'll get a topic where it appears people are looking into 'a truth', they have compelling content, it will be fascinating to watch, they have an air of expert about them. You'll be recommended other channels on a similar theme in your feed, these usually tell a slightly different story or have a different focus that you might also become interested watching. Each channel, though apparently independent, seems clued up on the other content providers and might mention them. They might appear on each others channels, or might later have a spat.
The thing is, I'm now pretty sure it's soap opera. I'm still in the process of study so I don't want to name names. It would appear they're not independent, they are actors employed by Google to push a message. I suspect they work in teams, maybe not geographically, but are promoted by Google on each others videos and will casually plug each other. They'll have patreon accounts and might be doing other things apparently 'for the greater good' that require donations.
The thing is, they wear film quality prosthetics to hide their true identity. I'm pretty sure I've spotted two people playing two different YouTubers, each asking for money in different ways. I think there's nothing stopping one person having say five Youtube accounts, five different personas in masks, and five different patreon accounts. But where are they getting their film quality prosthetics if not from Google?
Admitted quality of prosthetics, note how they do rubbish eyes to pretend they can't do better. They do better every day of the week, just look at your news casters, they are all characters, played by actors, reading scripts.
In the real world, would anyone with teeth like below get a high end job convincing people? Wouldn't they have got their teeth fixed? The truth is, these are dental insets, a distraction so we don't remember the actor's face when it turns up as a different character later...