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What are you ashamed of do tell
Smosh. Smouote]originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
a reply to: pthena
What are you ashamed of do tell , but the time I think a 14 year old you tuber has the answers to my questions regarding the bullsnip that is politics is a long way off, I prefer my own opinion over most 14 year olds in the majority of situations unless its fornite related or twitter crap.
Like I said to the other poster if you agree with her, it must be good, so enjoy it, I prefer mysef to watch other crap so I enjoy that, I dont watch politics on youtube though, the news on the hour is dulling enough.
Smosh started in 2005, with the dynamic duo of Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, who hit it big with comedy and parody videos. The duo attracted over 22.8 million viewers and earned $11 million. The duo split in in 2017, as Padilla left to start his own YouTube site, which now has over two million viewers.
Ryan ToysReview. This YouTube channel is run by a six-year-old - that's right - a six-year-old boy named Ryan who simply reviews toys on a regular basis, and earns $11 million, with over 10 million viewers.
Jake Paul. The brother of Logan Paul, Jake Paul boasts over 17 million subscribers on YouTube. Like his brother, Paul has made his market posting video blogs and comedy clips, and has earned $12.5 million from his YouTube channel.
originally posted by: Xcalibur254
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.
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There's a lot of layers to this article so I'm not entirely sure where to start.
I'm appalled by the some of the messages this girl is disseminating to nearly a million users on a regular basis. And yet, she also comes across as an extremely intelligent young woman who has a better grasp on reality than most adults.
Are her more extreme views merely a hyperbolic tool used to drive home a deeper point? Or is it simply another example of a white supremacist co-opting meme culture to spread their message of hate?
I post this thread having never heard of Soph before reading this article. Based off of it though I think there are a few important conversations that can be had on here. On one level we can talk about Soph, her popularity, and the content of her videos. On another there's a discussion about the responsibility that sites like YouTube have to not only police their content but protect their younger users.
So have at it ATS. What are your views on this 14 year old girl that posts some pretty hateful stuff, while also exposing some deep truths, and has almost 1 million subscribers?
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Xcalibur254
I thought everything she was being critical of equally applied to her. You only criticize and hate in other people what you do not like about your own character.
originally posted by: Plotus
You gott'a watch it, not just comment on the OP title
Soph be not afraid www.youtube.com...
It's a repost with only 6 views, mine being #6...
originally posted by: UpIsNowDown
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: hopenotfeariswhatweneed
originally posted by: 3n19m470
I love her videos and I hope I was the 1st one to bring her to ATS. I love the fact that people don't want to accept how conservative the next generation is going to be.
You like her message because it resonated with your ideals, at least you admit it.
You seem quite pleased with your assessment. I feel like it wouldn't be right to upset this sense of balance you have found in your life and I don't want to be the one to take that smug sense of wellbeing away from you... so, sure why not? Let's just go ahead and say I agree with "Her Message" whatever that is which you conveniently decided not to define. That way the reader can just assume the worst. And, again, I really don't want to take that achievement away from you... Doesn't seem right. Why do that, when I could empower you to reach deep inside and really express the true you with zero shame or fear?If you are not afraid of your True Self...what can stop you then? Nothing. Only your Own fear can do that.
originally posted by: 3n19m470
originally posted by: JourneymanWelder
This is just pathetic. She will never have a normal childhood.
Yeah, shes the child we need to be concerned about...
says the guy defending her vehemently, why is it you believe a 14 year old to have a more balanced world view than yourself? Surely you have far more life experience than her and maybe you could be offering her advice, consider me old school I thought an adult would understand the world better than a child could. I suppose what ever makes you nod in agreement is good right
originally posted by: seagull
a reply to: odzeandennz
It's Ingraham. FYI.
originally posted by: Dfairlite
a reply to: Xcalibur254
Isn't free speech wonderful? You don't have to agree with everything she says to take some of the nuggets of wisdom she drops and apply them to your life. She's brilliant. What I can't figure out is why you think she's a white supremacist.
originally posted by: LSU2018
originally posted by: dfnj2015
a reply to: Xcalibur254
I thought everything she was being critical of equally applied to her. You only criticize and hate in other people what you do not like about your own character.
Interesting.