▲ 352 ▼ YouTuber Trevor Jacob jailed after crashing plane for views (www.bbc.co.uk) submitted 2 years ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world 63 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Schaedelbach@feddit.de 49 points 2 years ago (3 children) Eh, there is a ton of content creators who make cool stuff and don't endanger other people. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] sirdorius@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago Exactly, there is a huge amount of quality content on Youtube. No need to demonize everyone because of shit like this. I honestly never even see ridiculous recommendations like these, so it really depends on what you watch and how you curate your feed. permalink fedilink source parent [–] finthechat@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago "Content creators" is in quotes because the person you're responding to isn't talking about everyone who posts content to Youtube, they're referring to a specific culture derived from a subset of that group who will cravenly create any sort of material regardless of how much physical or societal harm can come from it. Examples: this plane-crashing psychopath, people creating "pranks" that hurt others or get kids to kill themselves, literally all and any alt-right media, etc. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The problem is that they all think they're important celebs. Content creator means noting more than you make videos for a website, but people get an ego about it and think they're celebrities permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 24 points 2 years ago Exactly, there is a huge amount of quality content on Youtube. No need to demonize everyone because of shit like this. I honestly never even see ridiculous recommendations like these, so it really depends on what you watch and how you curate your feed. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] finthechat@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago "Content creators" is in quotes because the person you're responding to isn't talking about everyone who posts content to Youtube, they're referring to a specific culture derived from a subset of that group who will cravenly create any sort of material regardless of how much physical or societal harm can come from it. Examples: this plane-crashing psychopath, people creating "pranks" that hurt others or get kids to kill themselves, literally all and any alt-right media, etc. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago The problem is that they all think they're important celebs. Content creator means noting more than you make videos for a website, but people get an ego about it and think they're celebrities permalink fedilink source parent