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A 20-minute, unbroken, and hyperarticulate tirade ostensibly about ignoring criticism online, “Be Not Afraid” stars a high school freshman from the Bay Area who goes by the name Soph on YouTube. (She edits as well as scores the videos, which she says are comedic.) Through videos like these, she’s become a rising star — with more than 800,000 followers — in the universe of conspiracy theorists, racists, and demagogues that owes its big bang to YouTube.
The video platform for years has incentivized such content through algorithms favoring sensational videos, and, as recent reporting has revealed, has deliberately ignored toxic content as a growth strategy.
Soph’s scripts, which she says she writes with a collaborator, are familiar: a mix of hatred toward Muslims, anti-black racism, Byzantine fearmongering about pedophilia, tissue-thin incel evolutionary psychology, and reflexive misanthropy that could have been copied and pasted from a thousand different 4chan posts. Of course, it’s all presented in the terminally ironic style popularized by boundary-pushing comedy groups like the influential Million Dollar Extreme and adopted of late by white supremacist mass shooters in Christchurch and San Diego.
How about this: “I’ve become a devout follower of the Prophet Muhammad. Suffice to say, I’ve been having a f*** ton of fun. Of course, I get raped by my 40-year-old husband every so often and I have to worship a black cube to indirectly please an ancient Canaanite god — but at least I get to go to San Fran and stone the s*** out of some gays, and the cops can’t do anything about it because California is a crypto-caliphate.”
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Xcalibur254
The YouTube has been taken down for hate speech.
You could beg me kicking and screaming to stop disseminating the ideas I believe in, and it wouldn’t make a f***ing difference,” Soph says at the end of “Be Not Afraid," in a passage in which she seems to drop her shtick, if only for a moment. “Not only am I inoculated to that bull***, most of Gen Z is too. Millennials grew up with MTV and nowadays watch Colbert. We, on the other hand, grew up with the internet, so we have no centralized source of information that controls what we think. We filter out the truth for ourselves; we’re not lazy. No one is brainwashing kids. Kids are simply learning from having free access to information, and there’s nothing you can do about it.”
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Xcalibur254
Well It took me a few more clicks to find the video because it seems youtube is on a mission to label this as a 'hate speech' video.
Anyways. I found it, and watched it all, and I was quite shocked.
Why?
Because I am an avid /pol/ observer, and from beginning to end I felt like I was listening to someone just simply quoting /pol/ posts and threads, the same old craziness that offers nothing but vapid dead ends to the political and religious climate of today's world. I felt like it was a satire from beginning to end.
originally posted by: pthena
a reply to: Xcalibur254
The YouTube has been taken down for hate speech.
originally posted by: strongfp
a reply to: Lumenari
No. She's not.
You really need to open yourself to the armpits of the internet to see she's literally quoting memes and toxic behavior.
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Xcalibur254
This girl is cuter: