#video by #Adam-Something about how online #atheism on #YouTube morphed into anti-feminism and anti-progressivism around 02010, which I had no idea about, except for #Thunderf00t, who he does mention. And then the reproductively viable worker ant, and apparently YouTube was a toxic environment for leftist videos, and he became an #Alt-Right viewer, although he implicitly claims he was never a “white nationalist”. Fake video, almost nothing more than a stock photo with a voiceover. #politics
on 02026-01-07YouTuber Justin Kuiper, who’s spent all his time working on other people’s #YouTube channels, plans to launch a channel of his own next year on “progress studies” once the CPMs crater in January, resulting in less competition for the (less profitable) eyeballs.
on 02025-12-12discussion of how #yt-dlp now requires #Deno for #JS to work reliably on #YouTube
on 02025-11-11AIR Media-Tech says typically #YouTube pays US$3000 to US$5000 per million views.
on 02025-09-28#YouTube pays on the order of US$5000 for a million views, but “There was a huge peak in the middle of my timeline where one of my videos went semi-viral and accounts for almost half of my channel’s views.” But he’s doing cryptocurrencies and investment banking, so a fraction of that is normal.
on 02025-09-28#NileRed #Youtube video replicating the "bulletproof wood" #materials paper. He had to keep checking the pH when rinsing the wood to find out when he’d removed all the lye, which took 7 (one-hour?) washings. The result was not bulletproof at all the first time around, not stopping even a pellet. Later iterations improved somewhat but still yielded to .22 LR, though with two layers glued together and rotated 90°, the bullet was stopped. Three layers didn’t even splinter on the back side and was able to stop a 9mm bullet.
on 02025-05-20criticism of #YouTube #censorship of protest videos about US #politics and in particular the legitimacy of the 02020 election
on 02020-12-13tells you which server #YouTube is going to serve you from.
on 02015-08-27crschmidt explains why measuring ISP bandwidth is tricky, how #YouTube’s #CDN works, and why things break.
on 02015-08-27