Current Events > I saw a video critical of JK Rowling. Now my YT feed is full of alt-right crap.

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One of the videos was titled something like "Why JK Rowling is a horrible person" then the thumbnail was Rowling crudely photoshopped over some news footage of CNN or MSNBC or whatever announcing that Democrats won the House

I didn't watch it, obviously, but what the hell does one have to do with the other
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dude

I watched one fucking 2 minute video about something I dont even remember like a month or two ago and since then i keep getting suggestions about mra shit, incels, all kinds of alt right crap, white nationalism and jordan fucking peterson
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The librul tech companies are censoring right-wing thought!!@
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1337toothbrush posted...

The librul tech companies are censoring right-wing thought!!@

Yeah I always get a chuckle when people say that.

I wish it were true. There'd be less of this shit on my feed all the time
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This has been a problem for a while now.
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SmidgeIsntBack posted...

This has been a problem for a while now.

Oh I know. It happened a few times before. One time someone linked to a clip of Joe Rogan interviewing that Proud Boy guy and then for a while my feed started filling up with Proud Boy and MRA shit

Youtube's algorithm is fucked
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would you prefer it be filled with videos explaining why Charlie Brown is "racist"?
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This is why you watch things in private even if it's not just porn.
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There's one in my recommended called "Why EVERYBODY hates JK Rowling." hmm
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I watched a couple innocuous videos about anime and got "Jordan Peterson: Why The Jews Are So Successful" in my recommended videos

It's obvious YouTube is a recruiting ground for the alt right. It's gross.
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Roxborough4Ever posted...

would you prefer it be filled with videos explaining why Charlie Brown is "racist"?

Well it's not really a binary choice here

But if you'd make me choose between the two extremes I'd go with SJWs. They may be annoying as hell, but at least they aren't hypocrites like the far/alt-right

Doe posted...

There's one in my recommended called "Why EVERYBODY hates JK Rowling." hmm

Lol the one I saw was "Why NOBODY likes JK Rowling" and one of the pictures when you hover over the thumbnail was Rowling with the Hillary Clinton campaign logo shopped next to her

This video was made 5 days ago lol
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I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

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MorbidFaithless posted...

It's obvious YouTube is a recruiting ground for the alt right. It's gross.

I don't think it's intentional on their part. I just think it's a mixture of their incompetence and the fact that the right is rather obsessive about viewing and promoting their shit lol
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wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

Rowling shit on their Orange Dementia Jesus, so they hate her.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

Everyone that hates her always tells me it's because she's an annoying fake SJW.

Which, I mean, it's a valid reason to dislike her or not care about her. But hate? Come on...
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AlecSkorpio posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

Everyone that hates her always tells me it's because she's an annoying fake SJW.

Which, I mean, it's a valid reason to dislike her or not care about her. But hate? Come on...

I rate a group by the behavior of its worst member, so by my criteria, they hate JK Rowling.

wah_wah_wah posted...

I rate a group by the behavior of its worst member, so by my criteria, they hate JK Rowling.

Oh, I'm not disagreeing that they hate her.

I'm just saying hating her for that is a bit much.
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Browsing CE probably doesnt help those algorithms either lol

Phantom_Nook posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

Rowling shit on their Orange Dementia Jesus, so they hate her.

She also shits on left wingers like Jeremy Corbyn. Deep down she's basically a pro-establishment hack. That's why she was even published in the first place. Some editor somewhere picked up on the privilege-reinforcing undercurrents of her work, despite all the fake show of liberal goofiness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxpwlKRQ2U" data-time="
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wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway.

She made Dumbledore gay so that ticked a lot of them off.

And Hermione was black in a stage play she didn't write or have a ton of involvement with. When people threw a fit about it tossed out the "changing a character's race" argument and in response she said something like "I never explicitly stated Hermione's race" which they then took to mean "Hermione was white but I suddenly decided she's black"

Also she tweets a fair amount and is pretty critical of Trump and the far right, and is supportive of the EU and Britain helping out refugees.

I think all of that combined just triggers them too much.
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wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway. She's not really a liberal at all. Her biggest story is about a privileged white boy who constantly obsesses about his lineage. Seems like that would relate to them quite a bit.

lol harry potter was a trust fund jock who married his high school sweetheart and became a cop

X-Pac_Heat posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxpwlKRQ2U" data-time="

I have a sneaking suspicion that this previously clicked link is the video with the dude in the wig impersonating Rowling and being annoying
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Doom_Art posted...

wah_wah_wah posted...

I don't even know why the right hates JK Rowling so much anyway.

She made Dumbledore gay so that ticked a lot of them off.

And Hermione was black in a stage play she didn't write or have a ton of involvement with. When people threw a fit about it tossed out the "changing a character's race" argument and in response she said something like "I never explicitly stated Hermione's race" which they then took to mean "Hermione was white but I suddenly decided she's black"

Also she tweets a fair amount and is pretty critical of Trump and the far right, and is supportive of the EU and Britain helping out refugees.

I think all of that combined just triggers them too much.

If they thought about it for a second, her story still puts a white male with big family pull at the center of the story, for all its apologies for racism. This is why I hate Harry Potter. Liberals pretend like it's this revolutionary fable purely because the right doesn't understand that it's secretly winking at them.

All I know is Harry Potter isn't that good and adults who obsess over it are weird.
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Doom_Art posted...

X-Pac_Heat posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKxpwlKRQ2U" data-time="

I have a sneaking suspicion that this previously clicked link is the video with the dude in the wig impersonating Rowling and being annoying

Here, try this one, it's probably more to your tastes Doom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZyuYEpkLOQ" data-time="
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wah_wah_wah posted...

If they thought about it for a second, her story still puts a white male with big family pull at the center of the story, for all its apologies for racism. This is why I hate Harry Potter. Liberals pretend like it's this revolutionary fable purely because the right doesn't understand that it's secretly winking at them.

I just like the magic and wizards and shit man lol
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