Date: January 24th, 2023 11:19 AM Author: marvelous ladyboy
A few years ago, you could read Craigslist and encounter all kinds of things. Halford made a career out of researching the personals there. Theyre gone.
Tinder and OKC were full of real girls filling out lengthy profiles and answering dozens of survey questions. All gone, just bots and IG scammers now.
Drudge Report had a unique approach to mainstream news. Queer on a laptop scooped the world on Lewinsky. Not even worth a click now.
4chan was FULL of wild, deranged, and smart stuff. /Lit/, /b/, /pol/, etc were all very active and doing things irl.
Twitter was a wild west.
Youtube was barely moderated.
Bodybuilding fora. Blogs. Comment sections.
None of these places really exist anymore, or they do they are bland and corporate and heavily curated.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:19 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
that's because all the payment processors threatened to stop supporting them because trafficked women and revenge porn were on there. so now the only shit that's on there is corporate porn or "amateurs" trying to make a living off it.
Date: January 24th, 2023 11:22 AM Author: Cyan Center Ratface
I don’t disagree with you generally but have you seen the recent XO YouTube vagina thread with links to clitoris measuring? YouTube still really isn’t moderated.
Date: January 24th, 2023 11:23 AM Author: marvelous ladyboy
they take down videos of bluegrass bands playing "i wish i was in dixie". they apparently leave up jerk off material. Its moderated, its just that they want you jerking off
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:12 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
youtube is heavily moderated and it's all done with dystopian bots. videos get removed or demonetized because a bot detects a swear word or copyright infringement. content maker's accounts get banned if they're flagged and there is no recourse.
the vagina shaving videos or w/e don't violate TOS for some reason. it's not like they're just slipping under the radar.
Date: January 24th, 2023 2:22 PM Author: Cyan Center Ratface
YouTube's written policy explicitly prohibits "explicit content" meaning content that is "meant to be sexually gratifying is not allowed on YouTube." That means "[d]on’t post content on YouTube if it shows: The depiction of clothed or unclothed genitals, breasts, or buttocks that are meant for sexual gratification."
Now we all now what every fag making the yogapants vagina videos and the measure the Mexican girls' clitorises video will say. "Sir, actually, this is in no way meant for sexual gratification. How dare you." Which we all know is full of shit, unless you or I have really found it educationally edifying to see the measurement of 25 Mex chicks' clits by a doctor who just so happens to also have an OnlyFans account. (And did I ever find it educational!)
If YouTube were actually being moderated, all that shit would be removed. I'm assuming we've both had experiences at some sites with real moderation and we both recognize none of that would fly.
Date: January 24th, 2023 2:28 PM Author: Beta smoky lettuce
It was really easy. Just compile Whisper, download MP3's, run Whisper batch command, then open up the log prompt and enter one per hour until you're done (can't submit more than 1/hr). As a bonus, you get a nice written transcript of the presentation so there's a chance you may actually refer to it later.
My CLE would be on why this is unethical and people shouldn't do it.
Date: January 25th, 2023 8:00 AM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
go upload some gore or porn and see how fast it gets removed.
some moderator decided that these vids fit within the rules because they are ostensibly not for sexual gratification. now obviously both you and i know that's bullshit, but that doesn't mean it's unmoderated. it's far more likely that the vid was cleared under their interpretation of their own rules rather than it just slipping under the radar.
Date: January 24th, 2023 11:28 AM Author: Ruddy Concupiscible Market
Because every last click is monetized now, and Gen Z and some millennials figured out you could make money from social media / youtube, but you need to 1) get a following and 2) run ads. Both require sanitized commercialized content on all media platforms. 5-10 years ago there was still a discussion of how social media co's would make money. Now that is firmly settled in favor of 'run ads.' They always ran ads, but it wasn't settled that they always would. It is now. Just look at the production quality on youtube channels, it has gone through the roof (even if content has gone down). That is no accident.
Date: January 24th, 2023 11:30 AM Author: Beta smoky lettuce
CR. (Run ads + sell user data.) Yet who wants to pay for access?
The creators who get promoted are the blandest and there's a feedback effect where bland globohomo goyslop getting promoted leads creators to favor making such in their creations & dulls people's senses to the wide range of creative possibility.
Date: January 24th, 2023 11:56 AM Author: Mint property
You’re living too much of your life online. Who cares about the quality of YouTube content or whatever has you riled up? Spend time with your family and friends IRL
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:05 PM Author: Beta smoky lettuce
I don't watch YouTube and spend all day with my family, and IDK where you got that I am "riled up," but TY for the platitudinous drive-by advice that contributes nothing to the conversation, it truly made me realize what an above-it-all yet grounded person you must be.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:16 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
this type of handwaving can be made to dismiss any criticism. bitch about star wars? get a life and spend time with family. bitch about football? get a life and spend time with family.
no shit that the internet sucking is small potatoes compared to the big things in life. he is still free to complain about. it's not like he's saying his life is over because youtube sucks now.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:18 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
it's funny how all these things started great and then wound up being worse than what we had before.
i loved rt when it first came out. it was a great way to quickly see if something was worthwhile. unfortunately because rt is just a yes/no binary movies that are just "ok" will get very high ratings, whereas high quality yet divisive movies will not. on top of that all the reviewers have gone ultra woke. so now it's practically useless, aside from the fact that now when i see a high rt score i'm more skeptical than excited.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:22 PM Author: marvelous ladyboy
i used to read rt around the same time I would read vice and buzzfeed and gawker and other shit. Can you imagine the state of vice or buzzfeed these days?
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:27 PM Author: marvelous ladyboy
gavin's regular thing where he'd rate people in photos was so 180000000.
matter of fact, that reminds me of another lost internet treasure: all the ratings sites. hot or not. rate my prof. etc. Like rotten tomatoes but for people.
i suppose they still do this on reddit, but there are a thousand dyke mods to ban you from saying mean things
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:29 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
lmfao, you just inspired me to check out ratemyprofessor to see how far it has fallen
answer: very! not only did they remove the "hot" rating, but now it seems professors can take over their pages and ask for corrections. lol... just lol.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:31 PM Author: marvelous ladyboy
sort of off topic, i remember teaching test prep at kaplan in my dissolute youth. we'd administer teacher rating surveys that impacted your pay scale. But you adminned the survey yourself. I routinely trashed any bad rating and filled in ones myself, and I rocketed up the pay scale.
Cant believe some tards honored the system and stayed stuck at the bottom
Date: January 24th, 2023 1:52 PM Author: Trip senate
The hot rating was the best-- it was a chili pepper if I recall. I used to go on there to check to see if women I went to grad school with and who now are professors were considered "hot" by their students.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:25 PM Author: Fracture in the Maidenhead (gunneratttt)
i recently canceled my amc a-list. even when the movies are "free" i couldn't bring myself to see them. i used to love going to the movie theater. it's all slop now and most movie theaters are run down and depressing.
Date: January 24th, 2023 10:30 PM Author: Vibrant bawdyhouse
I haven't been to a movie theater in at least 5 years. My mom came over to watch our dotter so my wife and I could have a date night and go to a movie she wanted to see. After we got in the car, she said we should just bar hop and I agreed.
Date: January 24th, 2023 12:40 PM Author: Trip senate
When we are trying to decide on a new restaurant, my wife will always look at the "reviews". Useless. I tell her that each time-- I don't care what the reviews say. "I am gluten intolerant and...." "I don't like spicy food..." Why the fuck am I listening to what these dullards have to say?
Date: January 24th, 2023 2:18 PM Author: salmon box office
theres a show on bway called its a strange loop. won pulitzer and tony - normally that would be some indicator of quality. But, there is not a SINGLE complaint in any review. Anyway here's the cast and creative: https://strangeloopmusical.com/cast-and-creative/
at no point has the person who wrote this article ever used a single one of these products. in fact I bet it's written by a computer, skimming language from the amazon page, then cleaned up and edited by a person
Date: January 25th, 2023 12:20 PM Author: Trip senate
Dyson has sexed up the market with their supersonic hairdryer. The supersonic has been for around four years in the making, cost approximately 50 million. They created around 600 prototypes to perfection and tested them on more than 1000 miles of human hair. As a result, they have made the fastest, quietest, and most hair-friendly dryer ever.
Date: January 24th, 2023 2:00 PM Author: Bipolar laughsome home voyeur
Yes except the shift was 20 years ago when Yahoo, About.com, Ziff Davis, etc gobbled everything up and custom made personal pages got replaced with accounts on pre-made platforms. You're describing round 4 or 5 of further deterioration.