It's like I can feel myself detach from whatever topic I'm listening to as I expect it to be a lead up for Raid Shadow Legends.

It's like I'm gonna disengage from serious things because I'm just waiting to see how they are going to ask for money.

I get it's to keep engagement, but it's doing the opposite. I don't want you to slip between conversation into a commercial like that's not creepy as fuck. It's like the Truman show, but nobody's even watching you. I dunno, it's not fun out here.

  • QuietCupcake [any, they/them]
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    7 months ago

    You probably know this, but in case not and for others interested, Tom Nicholas did a whole video about that specific incident and youtubers doing corporate propaganda in general. It was pretty good. I also unsubscribed from Veritasium around then, mostly because of their doubling down after the TN video rather than acknowledging it. A shame because Veritasium was pretty decent as far as that kind of channel goes.

    I'm with OP though. The embedded "this video is sponsored by" ads, no matter how ironically or cleverly a youtuber inserts it in, still seriously rankles me. All the more when leftist "content creators" do it. It just feels all the more hypocritical.