YouTube is awful - The sexual harassment genre.

[Aldurin]

I don't usually make these kinds of threads because I don't actually stick my arms in the mud that much. I stay away from the clickbait, shallow stuff and "shit on display" discussions, hell the only txt twitter I follow is @forexposure_txt since it's mostly bad business instead of the pit of despair that the others are. So I was also really unaware of just how successful some people have been on YouTube with videos themed around sexual harassment.

So I just saw this video that one of my RL friends shared and I'm still trying to take it in. Never heard of Laci Green before but she's definitely cool she has many strong opinions of varied quality. But I could barely watch the clips in there from the people she's calling out.



I like the internet, I really do. But boy does it make it challenging to like it when all of the awful people in the world can find their own echo chamber regardless of distance. And it's brought a few things to my attention that I didn't think were that bad.
1. The people making these videos around "pranks" on women aren't being arrested for what anyone should realize is something really awful. I can only hope that most of their cut footage is of them having to back off because either a the target or a heroic passerby managed to intimidate them away, but I could be and probably am wrong to hope that.
2. The popularity of these videos indicates that the "women should yield to men" portion of the voices of the world are far more numerous than I imagined. I figured before that it was the largest of the terrible vocal minorities, but still very thinly spread. I'm realizing that's probably egregious understatement.
3. These videos aren't being taken down by YouTube until they become so prominent in the media that they're taking it down if only to not look bad. I just expected in the past that content this bad would be flagged and removed relatively quickly.
4. These people make a living by sexually assaulting women and showing it to the world for others to laugh at. As with YouTube, Sam Pepper's monetization network only dropped him after this became an issue from what I can tell, which means that they're just dodging bad PR instead of actively policing their own partnered channels to keep this stuff out.

This is probably just preaching to the quire for most of this forum, but this video is good for pointing out not just the problem, but the scale of it. Run it by your friends that might need help grasping this issue.