I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.
hark@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I see clips of this guy in my recommended videos section on youtube all the time. I never click on them and I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips. Either way, I find it odd how signal-boosted this clown is. The gaming-to-politics pipeline is too strong.
natecox@programming.dev 2 days ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I have watch history turned off anyway so I wonder how it’s deciding that I should watch these clips.
This is why, lol. Since his videos are generally popular on YouTube, if you have no watch history for your recommendations to be based on, it’s just always going to feed you whatever’s popular, which will include his stuff.
You’re doing it to yourself, in other words. I actually have watched a couple videos of his in the past, and yet, because it’s rare, I never see his videos being recommended to me. Hell, in my experience, stuff recommended to me is rarely similar to things I’ve seen more than a month or so ago.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
He knows nothing about politics, but realized that saying right wing bullshit gets engagement so now this is what we have.
hark@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Sometimes it feels like the internet is just a giant rat maze and people chase after whatever the algorithm rewards them for chasing.