The thing that always kept me from being tempted to do this even cynically is that there’s simply no way that shit stays contained, it has to poison you.
Yep. The only thing I want to do on youtube is a niche eco-Marxism podcast without any care for viewership. The moment you blow up into Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t though, you have to play a guy. Everyone on Well There’s Your Problem has to be their character for the weird parasocial relationships their audience has. You have to have trademark phrases and a staged production because your audience doesn’t want to learn unless . There’s drama and multiple layers of parasites who feed on it, each of them driving more negative traffic to your channel to boost their own. And then the algorithm arbitrarily punishes you if you don’t show it your face making a cartoon reaction to your video about a cholera epidemic.
The moment you have to become a cartoon that sells products which only further alienate your viewers, youtube is evil. There’s very little room for channels that don’t participate in an evil feedback loop which dehumanises them.
