• Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The moral of the story is: Watch PornHub videos instead of YouTube videos to do your part to support content creators.

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      I have never understood this impulse to censor content which is publicly available. Like she wrote that and put it on the internet under her name, presumably she’s all right about people knowing about it.

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      Tries to obfuscate the name of the content creator who would literally profit from more people being able to find her. Nice.

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        I mean, given that they didn’t see it in the screenshot, they might’ve thought that’s her real name rather than the name she uploads porn under…

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    I mean, yes YouTube is greedy, but a big part of that is pronhub allowing very predatory ads, from scams and chatbots and straight up malware companies, who are willing to pay more

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      YouTube absolutely shows ads that are predatory, scams, malware, and chatbot adjacent… literally the only difference is whether an erect dick is visible and tbh I’m not fully convinced YT hasn’t let porn ads through.

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        Wasn’t there like straight up Minecraft character porn on YouTube? For like, a not insignificant amount of time.

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        Most ads I see on YouTube are like meal prep companies, IT services and random brands.

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      and Ofc they are owned by a private equity firm. (i mean by design this type of company is supposed to make the company very valuable and sell it off)

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    Honestly, if anyone were to compete with YouTube and not be trying to rub their fanny all over the government for good boy points…

    I’m pretty sure that’s why it’s illegal in red states.

    Shit maybe that’s what all these data centers are actually for. Make a billion fake ai Instagram people and flood the US Internet to help shape the narrative. You’d obviously want to funnel views toward your buddies and away from anything unpredictable.

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      I really think the data centers are to power the already installed surveillence tools like Flock and web trackers/personal device telemetry, but that certainly could be a part of it.

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        True that. Also, all metadata on all Americans for the past twenty years.

        Honestly, a year of ice leading up to the elections with full AI™️

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    Good thing they covered her name at the top, wouldn’t want to have it in too many places on the image…

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    32k PH views vs. 981k YT views.

    Rough math on that is 32 dollars vs. ~339 dollars. So uhh… okay.

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      I mean, that’s besides the point. Most people go to porn hub for less mathsy videos. Plus, it’s extra money for just putting the already made video there

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        By all means, go get that paycheck, that asterisk is doing some seriously heavy lifting though.

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    Ah yes … the Ticketmaster marketing platform … get other people to create, maintain and pay for the venue, become the middle man and make audiences pay you to see the performers.

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        Sorry for the confusion … but I was referring to Pornhub and Youtube … both platforms that do nothing but host yet receive all or most of the revenue for all the activity, performances and creativity of everyone who posts anything on those platforms. They are both like Ticketmaster, they do very little for anyone in the equation, they don’t create, they don’t perform, they don’t provide support, they just guide audiences to the performance, yet receive the majority of the benefit of the transaction.

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          You’re not wrong, but also you kinda ignore how capital intensive it is to run a video hosting platform. That shit is hard to do at scale and it takes many nerds with expensive salaries. Doesn’t mean they should get to control the revenue sharing though. Ticketmaster is just a scam.