Circle of YouTube “Influencers”

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-03-12 15:52:01 UTC
Modified: 2022-03-12 15:53:47 UTC

Some background: It Smells Like Marketing -- Not Journalism -- When Almost 100% of the 'Articles' From Jason Evangelho, Senior Contributor at Forbes, Are About the Same Topic | 'Influencers' Gaming the Web of Videos (GulagTube) | YouTube is Becoming Mostly SPAM

YouTube “Influencers”

Formerly known as 'The Linux Gamer'

The Linux Experiment

RMS hate letter

The Linux Experiment on RMS hate letter

The Linux Gamer on RMS

Video download link | md5sum e6881adf158390b4ef966e7e4952a595 Gamers of the Algorithms Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 4.0

Summary: The images above, explained in the video below them, hopefully sum up the state of the Web, the state of 'You'Tube (GulagTube), and the state of journalism; online cabals -- and sometimes corporate mobs -- are running ads as "content" and it's getting hard to distinguish fiction (advertising) from reality; the problem is not limited to videos or to videogames

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