The study that the whole alpha/ beta dynamic comes from was studying caged wolves in a zoo.
So limited territory, resources and mates.
Its essentialy prison social dynamics. Makes sense thats what theyd be trying to push in general society- keep people competing for the artificially scarce resources, instead of trying to wrestle back control of said resources from tbe corporations/ their owners
lobut@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Yup. It came out that Clavicular has been funded by Peter Thiel. I was watching a guy do a marketing breakdown of a “clip farms”. Where top streamers pay people to clip their videos and upload them to flood the algorithm. PirateSoftware, Asmongold … like a lot of streamers use this service to surface to the top.
I think he did a breakdown of Clavicular and he was like, someone has poured a lot of money into getting this guy noticed.
gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The way that it’s so impossible to tell what’s organically popular and what’s just a hype campaign is honestly so maddening, it’s not as blatant as what they do with political campaigns but it is still an attack on democratic pluralism in a really significant way imo
Soulg@ani.social 4 days ago
Unless I’m misunderstanding you, the streamers doing it don’t try to hide it, they openly pay efforts to manage their YouTube clips etc
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I think I’m miscommunicating it. You know how sometimes you feel as though you understand a topic until you have to explain it? :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5lqJF5BTvo (40minutes)
This video talks about it.
He talks about a Discord server where they pay people to do it. Not like editors or employees which are perfectly fine and make sense, but to hire other people to do it:
discord.com/invite/clipping
If you clip their stuff they’ll you via their campaigns through that Discord server. It’s to game the algorithm to make people think that other people are really interested in this to push them up the charts.
He brings up a good point in the video where he talks about how this should be considered advertising as opposed to natural content and labelled as such but laws around this are not clear.
JayGray91@piefed.social 3 days ago
Idk how it is with PirateSoftware nowadays. I haven’t gotten any clips from him or about him after 1) some stupid WoW drama 2) and especially after his stupid ass takes on Stop Killing Games.
Either way I militantly curate my YouTube feed anyways so
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
I’ve seen a few of his more recent clips. He’s still playing games on livestream and giving out advice. Obviously with a much smaller audience.
I’ve never really followed him that closely to begin with. I would like to think he’s a good guy that has dumb opinions on certain topics. However, I also don’t care enough to dig into it deeper.
I curate my feed too. I also watch only one short or have to select it myself. I refuse to scroll shorts one after the other.