YT is choked full of bullshit conspiracy propaganda shit. It’s completely nuts how your frontpage looks like after you went down that rabbit hole. People with mental issues will get completely sucked into this, worsening their already broken state and potentially radicalize, becoming a danger to themselves or others.
YT is already shit for regular content nowadays but this part of it is straight up dangerous and why I kinda already want that whole platform to just burn to the ground.
I have a friend who became a flat earther and cites The Why Files flat earth video as containing “a ton of good evidence”. The debunkings are never so salacious as the “evidence” laid out in the first half, and get written off. :(
Did your friend actually got to the debunking part or did he skip that?
I mean there’s this famous experiment that flat earthers did and proved that the earth is a globe. They discarded the results and continued being flat earthers.
He says the debunking parts are “what YouTube forces them to add” to the video, where the first half is the Truth and the second half can be reliably skipped. That’s for all the videos from that channel, which is why he’s now reading the Bible in order to learn more about “the Anunaki”
The first half of the show is treating it as if its true, the second half of the show is debunking what he can through available sources, most episodes he points out the bullshit.
Its an entertainment show with a talking conspiracy theorist goldfish…
I have a friend who became a flat earther and cites The Why Files flat earth video as containing “a ton of good evidence”. The debunkings are never so salacious as the “evidence” laid out in the first half, and get written off. :(
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“The Why Files” is a blight upon humanity and one of YouTube’s most successful, most awful sources of BS
YT is choked full of bullshit conspiracy propaganda shit. It’s completely nuts how your frontpage looks like after you went down that rabbit hole. People with mental issues will get completely sucked into this, worsening their already broken state and potentially radicalize, becoming a danger to themselves or others.
YT is already shit for regular content nowadays but this part of it is straight up dangerous and why I kinda already want that whole platform to just burn to the ground.
The why files debunks conspiracy theories. What are you talking about?
I have a friend who became a flat earther and cites The Why Files flat earth video as containing “a ton of good evidence”. The debunkings are never so salacious as the “evidence” laid out in the first half, and get written off. :(
Did your friend actually got to the debunking part or did he skip that?
I mean there’s this famous experiment that flat earthers did and proved that the earth is a globe. They discarded the results and continued being flat earthers.
He says the debunking parts are “what YouTube forces them to add” to the video, where the first half is the Truth and the second half can be reliably skipped. That’s for all the videos from that channel, which is why he’s now reading the Bible in order to learn more about “the Anunaki”
Wait… There are tons of flat earthers and conspiracy theorist on YouTube but aren’t forced to do a debunking segment. What the fuck is he smoking?
The first half of the show is treating it as if its true, the second half of the show is debunking what he can through available sources, most episodes he points out the bullshit.
Its an entertainment show with a talking conspiracy theorist goldfish…
I have a friend who became a flat earther and cites The Why Files flat earth video as containing “a ton of good evidence”. The debunkings are never so salacious as the “evidence” laid out in the first half, and get written off. :(