CNET publishes article on angry gaming Youtubers -

[FireGod365]

Meet the angry gaming YouTubers who turn outrage into views

The video game world is no stranger to controversy, but a new class of YouTube commentators is turning anger into influence.

www.cnet.com

Of course CNET would try to tie this to "Orange Man bad."

 

[eldri]

How to make a successful video on one of the internet's most popular sites:

Step 1: Find something to be angry about. Go to online forums, track what's hot on Twitter and figure out the outrage of the day.

Step 2: Rant into a camera for 10 minutes.

Step 3: Profit.

Sounds familiar

 

[Marcus the Mong]

That includes when he posted a video criticizing "social justice warriors" (SJWs), a common internet slur for people who advocate for diversity. In a February 2018 video, he discussed how "keyboard warriors" and "political correctness" were threatening to wreck games. "It's one of the most important concepts I have covered on the channel," he said at the time. The video, titled SJW Culture is RUINING GAMING, has nearly 1 million views.

YouTube is his full-time job and he says he pulled in about $35,000 last year through advertisers, recently including Sprint, Honda and Mattress Firm.

Fuck that's blatant, lmao.

 

[Clop]

Granted, anger is a real doozy of a clickbait, but so is hypocrisy.

 

[eldri]

Youtube wants docile channels to pacify viewers so companies no longer have to be accountable for quality.
The AAA video game industry has gone to shit and channels have popped up to educate and criticize for the sake of the consumer. The industry does not want to change so they have to shoot the messenger before more people are aware of the industry's terrible practices.

I won't be surpised if Youtube changes its harassment policy to include corporations in the future.

 

[FireGod365]

Youtube wants docile channels to pacify viewers so companies no longer have to be accountable for quality.
The AAA video game industry has gone to shit and channels have popped up to educate and criticize for the sake of the consumer. The industry does not want to change so they have to shoot the messenger before more people are aware of the industry's terrible practices.

I won't be surpised if Youtube changes its harassment policy to include corporations in the future.

I think there's a difference between meaningful, constructive analysis and criticism, and just exploiting people's anger just for views. We need accountability and voices to be heard, but we aren't gonna get anything done if we're just being a bunch of neckbeards yelling at the wind.

 

[eldri]

I think there's a difference between meaningful, constructive analysis and criticism, and just exploiting people's anger just for views. We need accountability and voices to be heard, but we aren't gonna get anything done if we're just being a bunch of neckbeards yelling at the wind.

True, but Youtube will allow the channels who will play ball with companies and not hardball.

 

[remiem]

This article is an amazing feat for being a hypocritical parody of itself;

"It's an attention economy where you're rewarded for engagement," said Nicolas Suzor, a law professor at Queensland University of Technology who studies internet communities. "And the stuff that stokes up the fear and anger gets more engagement."

 

[FireGod365]

This article is an amazing feat for being a hypocritical parody;

"It's an attention economy where you're rewarded for engagement," said Nicolas Suzor, a law professor at Queensland University of Technology who studies internet communities. "And the stuff that stokes up the fear and anger gets more engagement."

That's why I don't take bait like this. I posted the article here so you can (rightfully) tear it apart for its utter hypocrisy.

 

[pearlslam]

I have been hearing through this on various sources through Twitter all day, and here is the long story behind the Voxadpocolyspse (and this hit piece):

A few workers at Vox want their hands on YouTube Adsense revenue that Vox has been receiving. Vox "journalists" get paid with a monthly check and not by how well their YouTube videos do with Adsense. These workers formed the Vox Media Union (real twitter account) and started planning a scorched Earth takedown of YouTube to make Vox give in to their three demands:

1. Major raises for underpaid staff, especially women and POC (people of color)
2. Raises that exceed the Fed's inflation target (whatever that means)
3. Severance longer than management's proposed 2 weeks

Naturally, Vox tells the "union" to take a hike. Then enter Carlos Maza. A gay Mexican, he started a beef with YouTube over Steven Crowder, a conservative YouTube comedian who has been a partner since 2007(?), and he told YouTube that Steven Crowder needs to go. YouTube naturally investigates and finds nothing wrong with the channel. Maza again tells YouTube, "he HAS to go NOW!" YouTube naturally pulls out the "the unwritten rule of acquisition (if it isn't there, make one up)", and booted Crowder from the Partner program (among potentially thousands of other channels).

All of this is to make Vox Media Inc come to the bargaining table to negotiate with these SJW cucks.

As this was happening, CNET decides to take an opportunity to write a hit piece on The Quartering, so it picked a few YouTube channels to randomly watch, before calling Hambly's advertisers, and guess what? They broke their contracts with Hambly.

By the way, as of the writing of this post, Maza is still not happy with how YouTube has not banned Crowder from YouTube.

 

[UA 674]

Hey, dipshits.

Don't make shit games. Don't censor people's opinions. Don't lie to people. Don't break promises.

Then we won't be mad. It's that simple.

 

[Chin of Campbell]

People are CRITICIZING the beloved corporations who make our precious video games! Isn't that awful???

Did a Smashfag write this?

 

[UE 558]

Hambly, LegacyKilla, CPG, Sterling etc are cancer, but this article clearly isn’t about their content quality, this shit clearly has a political agenda

 

[The Demon Pimp of Razgriz]

The Quartering's video on the subject:

LegacyKillaHD's video:

 

[Angelique24]

Cleanprincegaming's response and slight exposure of article writer:

 

[Cod of War]

Upper Echelon Gamers response:

 

[FireGod365]

A lot of these people are LOLCows in their own way, but their reactions are justified. The whole article feels like a hitpiece.

 

[Secret Asshole]

CNet still exists? I guess this article was published to try and remind me. But CNet? lol, completely fucking irrelevant. Hasn't been relevant for years and only exists by having downloads infected with huge amounts of malware and ads that boomers put on their computers.

The Vox fucktard (who is probably going to get his 'union' massively laid off lol) put the blood in the water. These websites used to be the end-all be all for content, but nobody likes them and hates them all. So they try and hit them.

And yet journalists are completely perplexed when the internet celebrates them losing their jobs.

 

[FireGod365]

This got so much WORSE

It gets even worse after the article you might have seen going after angry Joe, the quartering, Jim sterling and myself, and now its time for a little bit of...

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CNET Smear Continues! Part II Released

Big Brained "Journalist" from CNET continues to target Youtube gaming commentators because he can't move out of his mom's house yet. #Cnet #Urinalist Archive...

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This isn't going to end anytime soon. Anyone wish to make a thread on this?