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Bro I fucking love the DB Cooper case nothing about this whole situation sounds real. None of the passengers on the plane realized they were being hijacked until the plane landed two hours after it was supposed to and the fbi showed up with suitcases full of money. The note about the bomb almost went unnoticed because the flight attendant thought she was being sexually harassed so she didn't read it. One of the main suspects was the first trans woman in Washington to have a sex change operation. A reporter who was so dead set on his suspect that he brought him to court was so upset about being wrong that he went catatonic and was treated with electroshock therapy and it WORKED. There's been multiple "I'm DB Cooper" death confessions. He never even SAID his name was DB Cooper. Either he got away with a million bucks in today's money and the most iconic and harmless crime American history or he impaled himself on a pine tree while falling a zillion miles an hour in the dark while clutching duffel bags full of cash and either option is equally hilarious. He wore a clip on tie. He committed an act of sky piracy. What in the fucking looney toons

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"There's no hope for the future." And that's how they felt during the Atomic Age, during the World Wars, during the Enlightenment Revolutions, during thr plagues, during the Viking raids, during the fall of Rome.

Yet, we persisted.

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Of course it's the pink shirt that saves the day

and Gohan your father spent a whole full solid 3 years- 1096 days with that man in a room with literally nothing but a bedroom, kitchen, and a bathroom in it

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This meme got me thinking:

And I came to a conclusion.

The problem with modern Youtube is that it's too fucking boring and political.

Pulling back a bit, that's not to say I dislike those creators, or don't watch them. There is definitely a niche for opinion-based essays, discussions, and political content, and I enjoy watching stuff like that occasionally. And partially it's due to the current worldwide political climate being fucking crazy, so people genuinely do want to talk about it.

But primarily, this is an issue created by Youtube itself, with three major changes:

Videos can't have explicit content like swearing, sex, or violence, otherwise advertisers will demonetize the videos because they want to advertise to children. And no copyrighted music or footage, otherwise the video will get claimed.

Paradoxically, videos have to be marked as "not for children", and if they're too funny, silly, bright, and colorful, they will get in trouble with the government and be demonetized by Youtube switching them to "for children".

Also, the algorithm now favors overall watchtime over number of views. Both in terms of revenue and push. This means that short high-effort videos are less favored over long low-effort content viewers can put in the background while doing chores.

These three factors combined: no explicit content, no childish content, and no short-form content, means that people have naturally gravitated toward one style of video: being fucking boring and just talking about the news for hours on-end.

No-one could say that the news is "for kids", they don't give a shit, but just saying your opinions on current events can also be sanitized enough to not get demonetized (no sex or violence when you're just sitting in a room talking). And if you can ramble on for 2-3 hours on whatever current events have you annoyed, that's more watch-time. It's low-effort because it can just be a stream upload, and without music or visual aids, there's no worry of being copyright claimed and viewers can put it in the background while doing chores and listen like a podcast.

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mixing originality with licensed IPs is fun… i like perverting billion dollar companies’ properties with nutso kink concepts

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#Elmo's so real

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Reposting my single favourite piece of official Star Wars media for no particular reason.

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don't peek!! 😤

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I am becoming aware of the effect a lack of trust in the media has had on people, paired with a dearth of research skills.

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Sweater.

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reasons why i point at a character and go "thats a trans girl" in no particular order

- Particularly swagful women

- I latched on to this snarky unhappy little shit in my impressionable years and ive decided they're Like Me

- Samus Aran gets her own category because holy shit girl

- This "male" character's relationship with manhood is defined by pain and coercion. He finds solace in femininity wherever he can, but some part of him deep down is broken in a way he's so far failed to fix. Also has a 90% chance of having an awful relationship with his father.

- Boy with long hair

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"It's... it's really me..."

Only took me over two weeks of on-and-off fighting against the 30 year old software I was using for this one in my spare time (very much self-induced) but worth it

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