Is 5-Minute Crafts the WORST channel on YouTube?

[Quixote1818]

This cracks me up. She tests out all the "life hacks" on videos and 99% of them are complete BS.

[dewsgirl]

1. Rachel Maddow did a segment on this channel a couple

weeks ago, the company that owns it, runs out of...guess where? Russia, channels like 5 minute crafts and Brightside are like sleeper channels.. I found it.

[SharonAnn]

2. They run this channel to get your info and that of your friends

Then they can “weaponize” the info for pushing divisive content for the 2020 elections.

[dewsgirl]

3. Until her segment, I subscribed to that Brightside channel for a couple years.

[LeftInTX]

4. Brightside has always seemed fake

They have a few quizzes that suck you in, but after watching a few videos, I saw lots of inaccuracies,

[dewsgirl]

5. I watched maybe 2 the whole time, they're great at click baity

headlines, I'll give them that.

[OnDoutside]

7. Have you noticed Rachel has been under RW attack again lately, over the Dossier ? Plus a WP hack who

has appeared on Fox News gave her a kicking as well, Erik Wemple.

Rachel Maddow rooted for the Steele dossier to be true. Then it fell apart. Horseshit.

Her crime ? Apparently she talked about it a lot, according to Wemple.

The case for Maddow is that her dossier coverage stemmed from public documents, congressional proceedings and published reports from outlets with solid investigative histories. She included warnings about the unverified assertions and didn’t use the dossier as a source for wild claims. There is something fishy, furthermore, about that Mueller footnote regarding the “tapes.” In their recent book on the dossier, “Crime in Progress,” the Fusion GPS co-founders wrote that Steele believes the document is 70-percent accurate.

The case against Maddow is far stronger. When small bits of news arose in favor of the dossier, the franchise MSNBC host pumped air into them. At least some of her many fans surely came away from her broadcasts thinking the dossier was a serious piece of investigative research, not the flimflam, quick-twitch game of telephone outlined in the Horowitz report. She seemed to be rooting for the document.

He then posts a snip from a Michael Isikoff interview with her

Isikoff: Do you accept that there are times that you overstated what the evidence was and you made claims and suggestions that Trump was totally in Vladimir Putin’s pocket and they had something on him and that he was perhaps a Russian asset and we can’t really conclude that?

Maddow: What have I claimed that’s been disproven?

Isikoff: Well, you’ve given a lot of credence to the Steele dossier.

Maddow: I have?

Isikoff: Well, you’ve talked about it quite a bit, I mean, you’ve suggested it.

Maddow: I feel like you’re arguing about impressions of me, rather than actually basing this on something you’ve seen or heard me do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/12/26/rachel-maddow-rooted-steele-dossier-be-true-then-it-fell-apart/

[bucolic_frolic]

6. A lot of obsolete, untruthful, dangerous information on the internet

Reich wings videos disguised as financial brilliance. And a lot of reposted stuff. They clip a new intro onto someone else's old video to get a new date and make ad clicks. It's all about money.

I do have my favorites. Car repair videos can be good, especially if relevant DIY. eBay vids can be hype in rose-colored glasses. I made $876 in 24 hours from Walmart and Thrift Store finds! Juices those ad clicks. It's all about money.

I read somewhere that one of the more prominent mechanics claimed to make more than $55,000 a month from YouTube advertising clicks. So you can see why the hype. The more outrageous, the more eyeballs, the more money. It's all about money.

Liberal points of view still underrepresented on YouTube. We don't know how to monetize. We'd rather win elections than be rich. But you need money to win elections, so we have work to do. It's all about money.