Like every time I read the comments for any movie/show that features anything other than a white dude as the lead, everyone is like "tHe w0Ke cRoWd WiLL LoVE ThIs!!1!"

It's especially bad for anything Disney, which according to them, is a communist factory for LGBTQIA+ PEDO GROOMING or some other conspiracy nonsense. Granted, Disney is fully deserving of scathing criticism, but for different reasons.

Has anyone else noticed this? It's just weird to me because I view torrenting as a very anti-capitalist activity, but that seems to be lost on them?

  • Odo [any]
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    2 years ago

    It's incredible to me how filled with chuds private trackers are. Some of them are full-blown nazis, the guy who runs Concertos is definitely a nazi.

    I know torrenting is not revolutionary or anticapitalist in and of itself, but I would have expected these people to at least have some sort of critic about how their precious media is being siloed behind digital paywalls, but the closest most people get to voice a critique against corporations is "Netflix's wokeness is destroying anime titties and western society". In my 2 years of being around private trackers, I have only met two or three people who are probably comrades.

    I guess it's not surprising when you start to think about the demographics of the people who torrent: White, male, middle-class and above, between their 20s-40s and with some kind of background on computers.

    It's interesting that you have had the chance to talk with operators about their reasons behind administering a tracker, would love to read some sort of digital ethnography on a private tracker.