It’s interesting to investigate… but also more interesting to me are the scale of the numbers. “It was first uploaded on YouTube by RadioWV on August 9 and earned over 10 million views in less than a week and currently has over 1.2 million likes.”
YouTube: radiowv 355K subscribers 94 videos, that’s right now. It’s got 41 million views today… and most of the stuff on their channel seems a couple uploads a month going back years, many getting only 5000 views, some getting 1.1 million. To me, it would be pretty earth-shattering if Google’s view/like farming logic wasn’t top notch and they could let 41 million views happen in just a couple weeks… without detecting it / flagging it.
I think there is a rabid audience and they are casting out media content from all kinds of directions and feeding the flames of whatever takes off. It’s getting people into a frenzy that’s the goal. And we are 10 years since the tools of Cambridge Analytica were brought into their scope… Chasing trending and riding the coat-tails of media I think is a core strategy of their attempts to wrap themselves in voting success. Specacle.
Goog, meta, et al are not infallible, they’re good in a lot of places (in technical things, not privacy) but things like this where they take the approach of we can fix it later, they’re not really doing their best.
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It’s interesting to investigate… but also more interesting to me are the scale of the numbers. “It was first uploaded on YouTube by RadioWV on August 9 and earned over 10 million views in less than a week and currently has over 1.2 million likes.”
YouTube: radiowv 355K subscribers 94 videos, that’s right now. It’s got 41 million views today… and most of the stuff on their channel seems a couple uploads a month going back years, many getting only 5000 views, some getting 1.1 million. To me, it would be pretty earth-shattering if Google’s view/like farming logic wasn’t top notch and they could let 41 million views happen in just a couple weeks… without detecting it / flagging it.
I think there is a rabid audience and they are casting out media content from all kinds of directions and feeding the flames of whatever takes off. It’s getting people into a frenzy that’s the goal. And we are 10 years since the tools of Cambridge Analytica were brought into their scope… Chasing trending and riding the coat-tails of media I think is a core strategy of their attempts to wrap themselves in voting success. Specacle.
Goog, meta, et al are not infallible, they’re good in a lot of places (in technical things, not privacy) but things like this where they take the approach of we can fix it later, they’re not really doing their best.
Interesting article. But wow, what a ride that url was…