This was hilarious. A leftie breadtuber used A LOT of Gamergate research to bash on Brianna Wu, and talk about how she's a bad person and whatnot, just because Wu turned her rhetoric ever so slightly away from full blown woke insanity.
They validate EVERYTHING Gamergate found on her, while still claiming GG was a harassment campaign. Gamergate discovered she was a fraud a full decade before you got your panties in a knot, but somehow when they did it, it was wrong...
It's a 2 hour long shit show, I didn't watch it till the end either, but it's hilarious to see the mental dissonance. "Gamergate was bad, but this thing they found on her, and this Breitbart article, I've realized that they were true".
The ultimate video/documentary on the original PS3 failures.
If you own one, or know someone who owns one, this might be important to watch.
A PS3 Story: The Yellow Light Of Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UMG3iVYZI
I was today years old when I found out YouTube is using AI upscaling on their Shorts. I don't watch these, so it's no surprise I didn't notice. Did you?
YouTube has been giving me interesting recommendations lately.
I feel like you guys will have fun with this video. (the racist bastards among you that is)
I'm not particularly shocked to be honest. Don't know how active they are these days, but whispers have it that Gypsies here had something similar going. There was a time when you'd see a lot of beggars with physical malformations in my country. Some of the worst I've witnessed consisted of feet literally being twisted the wrong way around. You'd see them as kids, then as adults... Haven't seen one in ages though. Don't know if they died out, or if authorities managed to place them in a caring facility, away from their abusers. Another one of those relics of communism.
BREAKING! SHOCKING SICK WOMAN ADMITS TO GROOMING KITTEN!
Hulk Hogan tried to get the bats that killed Ozzy Osbourne, but he wasn't the young man he used to be, and hadn't practiced wrestling for too long. He failed to avenge Ozzy. RIP Hulk.
Man... the Atheism movement is so fucked.
Christopher Hitchens died.
Daniel Dennett died.
Sam Harris' brain probably turned to mush over his obsession with Trump. Can't remember the last time I heard him say a word on Atheism related topics. He will occasionally attack Islam if prompted, but it has only been if the topic is Israel-Gaza. I haven't heard him say something about UK's issues for instance. So conclusion, Sam Harris is useless now.
Richard Dawkins (was my personal favorite of the bunch) is literally afraid to speak anymore. He's been given the opportunity to talk on the UK Muslim thing, and he just refused.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali literally declared herself Christian, because she realized Atheism got completely cucked.
That's what happened with the "horseman of Atheism".
Now let's look at some of the minor figures.
David Silverman was literally falsely MeToo-ed out of the movement, and went into selling insurance or something like that. By his claims, he's making good money.
Matt Dillahunty went locco even before Harris, and I think was involved in canceling Silverman.
Seth Andrews, I've stopped following him a while ago out of boredom, but I occasionally see some of his episode titles, and it doesn't inspire confidence that his brain is still fully functional. He's not innocent on the Silverman thing either. But at least he was just a cucked that believed all women, and wasn't an attack dog.
TJ Kirk... Need I say more?
Hemant Mehta is a douchebag creep (by my own experiences).
Aron Ra, turns out he's also a complete scumbag. Also got involved in cancelling people.
Thunderf00t's brain has broken over his obsessions with Elon and Trump. He hasn't done anything Atheism related maybe for a decade.
Hugo and Jake... one got so fat that he gaslight himself into thinking he's trans, and the other went insane (literally put on a banana suit in the middle of an online debate).
The Armoured Skeptic is the weirdest conspiracy theorist you've met. Complete "history isn't what they tell you it is" levels. Not Antisemitic mind you, so no claims of false history surrounding that. Just everything else.
C0ct0pus (from the Goddamn Podcast) now does weird drama streams about some random fat ugly bastards.
And there's so many other small YT channels I'm still aware of that just disappeared since forever ago.
Like seriously, from the biggest figures in the movement, to the smallest guys I know, they either died, became deranged, or just moved on to something else and abandoned the cause.
The Vshojo drama made me think about something... it's a bit of a stretch, but hang on with me.
So there's one thing that religions and Churches usually get credit for. Building communities. Even the Atheist movement acknowledged that one of the big reasons people don't abandon Christianity, even if they don't actually believe in god anymore, is their need to be in a community. And it's the thing I would hear a lot from Atheist figures that we needed to get better at. (Atheists never did manage to build healthy communities. Instead it all went completely to shit).
Well, I've been thinking now... are vtubers the new churches?
Like look at this shit, Ironmouse makes a video, then more vtubers and people covering the drama follow suit, and before you know it, you have a community raising over $1 million for charity. Isn't this one of those things we expect out of churches? To bring people together, to unify under a goal, and do good deeds (charity) together? And it's hardly the first hugely successful charity event vtubers lead.
And I guarantee you there are people of completely opposite sides of the political spectrum in the streams of the most popular vtubers. So they're definitely able to build a community and have people set aside differences for a couple of hours.
"But Vtubers don't preach, you dummy". You sure? I've seen plenty of examples of vtubers telling people "hey, don't be that guy". I've seen them setting moral examples and telling people right from wrong. It's not the sort of nagging preaching, sure. But then again, good priests weren't supposed to feel nagging.
We're in a new age. Why shouldn't our spiritual leaders be completely different from what we're used to? Who's to say Jesus has to reincarnate in ragged clothes? Maybe he can reincarnate as a cute anime waifu?
Huh.. made an interesting discovery. Old YouTube streams (1-2 years old) that previously had a vp9 encoding (something I KNOW for certain, since I have downloads of those streams) now only have h264 encodings (verified with yt-dlp but also in browser). I guess they're trying to save disk space. Very interesting though.
My guess (how I'd do things), they probably have some cleaup utility, where if a video wasn't played for long enough, it will delete all encodings except what is needed for maximum compatibility.
Not the first time I tried to (re)download an old stream, but this is the first time I noticed codecs missing from YouTube's repertoire. Must be a cost cutting measure.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...