Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫💀 @alyx@gameliberty.club

@coded_artist @beardalaxy Probably stole multiple million dollars.

@matrix I don't even blame tbh. I've ranted a few times about how stupidly wasteful they are with their reencodes, keeping around old options that barely anyone (if not outright no one) uses anymore. They should be cleaning house. But they probably still went for the wrong option.

Can't imagine them having any significant amount of users whose devices can't play vp9. I really think they should ax h264 instead. Keep it only for livestreaming, since it works better for fast encoding/low latency, but switch to vp9 for long term offering.

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.

The bats finally took their revenge. RIP Ozzy Osbourne.

@beardalaxy Yeah, I heard. It's been slowly brewing ever since Matara left. Matara, Geega, Zen, some staff members. But with Ironmouse, the dam broke, and I think they're all leaving. Surely, removing Vshojo from their Twitter names is not a good sign, even if they didn't all announce it yet.

@beardalaxy It's starting to sound like no one was getting payed since last year. Just from Ironmouse and Kson alone, I think they might have stolen close to $1 million.

The Vshojo story keeps getting worse. They even managed to screw over what was supposed to be the future gen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHA6zJk1_ew

@weaf My default assumption already is that all vtubers have boyfriends, if not husbands, already. So... meh...

@sam @creamqueen
>faceless billion dollar corporation that controls their livelihood
Thing is, we've already seen evidence that the Biden admin was pushing for a lot of censorship. I think most of it was essentially politically driven. It wasn't always from presidents, or politicians, maybe sometimes it was from political NGOs or activists. But this shit was driven by politics.

I'm sorry, but you can't convince me anymore that the average company gives a crap if their ad is placed next to a news story of a pedophile raping a child. They care about views and people buying the product. Actually, correction, they don't even care about views that much. They care for the end result of more sales.

I think a lot of the censorship was driven by old mainstream media trying to sabotage new media. Let's remember that the Pewdiepie Adpocalypse was manufactured by mainstream media. It wasn't new media that pressured YouTube to make changes. It was always the mainstream media, either themselves, or through 3rd party activists, that constantly manipulated and shaped these spaces.

@creamqueen Out of LITERALLY EVERYTHING shitty that has happened for the last decade and a bit, THIS is what I hate the most.

Man... the Vshojo thing is crazy! Way beyond the Niji fuckup.

@camedei456 I haven't needed to buy a HDD in ages. I don't even know who's more reliable these days.

Black Panther branded external HDDs exist. 😆
Who the fuck do you think would buy that?! It's not even the "good" Black Panther, it's the sequel nobody watched! Fucking morons...

@beardalaxy
I was right.
Le Mans 2025:
EN:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAyiedQr454

FR:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafF7cJ5E_c

Or if you want other endurance racing, take your pick:
https://www.youtube.com/@FIAWEC/search?query=full%20race

@beardalaxy You should check on YouTube, I think they're streaming it there for free. I know I accidentally stumbled on it once. Don't know if they archive them, but they probably do.

@VD15 Yeah, apparently AI psychosis is a real thing, and it seems to happen because AI will just blindly reinforce whatever you say to it, with minimal (if any) pushback. It's affirmation taken to the extreme.
As a side note, it might explain why the trans movement has gone so insane too. Since the only acceptable treatment for trans people in the medical field is now "affirm, affirm, affirm", you start getting the same effect: trans person spouts out schizophrenic rants and the therapist (and social circle) reflects it back towards the trans person, reinforcing the schizo beliefs and behaviors, which them amplifies them.

A real man's ASMR.

@matrix I'm triggered... ok, not really triggered, but you got me. Got a thousand ebooks, and most of them I'll probably never manage to read.