You will never see a more disgusting place than YouTube. An algorithm that pushes the most disgusting content like gore and trauma and the comment section of even the most benign video will have some chud shitting on feminists or whatever with a million updoots. Absolute shithole of a content farm website.

[Sexism] I was just watching a wholesome video of a rooster protecting the flock from a hawk, and the highest comment was like "Hurr duurrr I bet this triggers feminists seeing hens run in fear while the rooster takes charge."

Bruh, no, what is triggering is how illiterate misogynists are about the animal world. Imagine choosing hens as your proof that women are weak. Hens, the gender of chickens that also attack predators regularly. Hens, the gender of chickens that are where scientists came up with the term 'Alpha'. Hens, the gender of chickens that can literally change their gender.

link because I'm not a lib, this person deserves bullying tbh but I doubt it's worth wasting time on

And then, to top it all off, in the recommendeds was a thumbnail of a real picture of a squirrel gored up after being shot with a pellet gun, with the title "Watch this before YouTube deletes it" smuglord

So yeah, youtube is fucked up trash.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    9 months ago

    YouTube, like so many of humanity's works, is a land of contrasts. Yes, there's a ton of incredibly noxious assholes flooding the comments with absolute garbage. But every so often I'll be playing a video (read: listening to a song; that's what I use YouTube for), looking through the recommendations along the right side, and I'll glance over and see someone's comment talking beautifully about how this song kept them from committing suicide, or helps them to stay sober despite deep mental anguish, or how it brings back memories of a lost loved one who used to enjoy it (these range from laments about a lost parent who loved the song to brutally sad stories like the one about someone's brother who pointed them to a song about fighting addiction, and later died of an overdose), and I will just break down and weep right there at my computer.

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      9 months ago

      An example:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNBiH-H5kTw

      "What a Lovely song makes me cry cause it makes me think of the son I lost he was 25 . If I could save time in a bottle I would save it being with him. ❤"

      (The song is tragic on its own besides; Croce died in a plane crash at age 30, not two years after the song was recorded, and before it was even released as a single.)

      Edit: This song's been stuck in my head today, so I listened to it again. Here's another comment, from the same video:

      "I have autism. It was finally diagnosed in late 2018, 45 years after this song came out, 52 years after I was born. In all those blank years, being called "removed" by neighbors, classmates and school faculty alike, music was my refuge (among other things). And it still is. This is one of my top five favorites. It's for thinking, caring people. I'm highly-asocial but I do think a lot...and try to care in a way 'normal' people do...or can at least understand and appreciate. If there is anything in me that is considered "human" by this world's hypocritical standards, then I'd like to think songs like this one pushed my tastes beyond that criteria. So I will take this song as a lesson and abide by this quote: "I will not waste my years trying to prolong them. I will use my time"."