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   Gary Bussy (garybussy@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 13:38:47 JST Gary Bussy
   How did it get like this?
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 13:39:13 JST pistolero

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     > How did it get like this?
     
     Because it's dying. They always crank up the ads when it's dying.
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     Gary Bussy (garybussy@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 13:40:39 JST Gary Bussy

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     @p god I fucking hope so, used to love youtube, now it's just depressing
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 13:44:36 JST pistolero

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     @GaryBussy There's no reason to crank up the ads when it's going great. They crank ads way up when the people in charge of it can't think of another way to increase revenue, meaning it's back in the red. The ads get past the point where even normies start to get annoyed and they fuck off to one of the competitors. You can tell which competitors, because they have been pimping "Youtube Shorts" really hard.
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     realcaseyrollins ✝️ (realcaseyrollins@social.teci.world)'s status on Wednesday, 14-May-2025 13:50:41 JST realcaseyrollins ✝️

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     @p @GaryBussy Sometimes can’t it happen when things are good, but they suspect things might get worse in the future so the extra revenue helps things not be as bad when the income dips?

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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 04:20:44 JST pistolero

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     @realcaseyrollins @GaryBussy Sure, if you've got to buy inventory to keep your business afloat. YouTube doesn't have that, and you never squeeze extra revenue at the expense of future revenue unless you're expecting the future revenue not to be there. Either whoever's in charge of it is short-sighted or they're trying to get blood from a stone. Unless something big changes, that site's gone in five years, and it'll get way worse before then.
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     Nicholas Conrad (nicholas@aklp.club)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 04:21:01 JST Nicholas Conrad

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     Typically when things are going well the drive is to increase user share and engagement, which would be the opposite of more ads. Only when user base shrinks does management flip out about declining revenue, and inject the ads to try to make up the shortfall. Of course creating a vicious cycle of driving off more eyeballs, so needing even more ads etc....

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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 04:29:20 JST Judge Dread

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     @p 5/5 Insightful
     
     My guess is the QE money dried up in 2023 and all these parasite CIA fronts were told they had to get into the black on their own.
     
     That's when all the streaming companies pumped up the ads.
     
     Even Netflix's 'profits' are a lie, they spend every penny making more shows to prevent the user attrition that rapidly sets in if the new content stops flowing.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 04:53:37 JST pistolero

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     > 5/5 Insightful
     
     "If we have seen farther than others, it is because we have seen this shit happen over and over again without fail."
     
     > My guess is the QE money dried up in 2023 and all these parasite CIA fronts were told they had to get into the black on their own.
     
     It's plausible: October 7, 2023, was what gave Israel its pretext. So we pull out of the poppy fields in Afghanistan just ahead of Gaza turning to glass: Hamas did the processing and wholesale, and there's no reason to stick around if the entire distribution chain is going to collapse. This (and Chinese fentanyl) had to affect the CIA's budget.
     
     > Even Netflix's 'profits' are a lie, they spend every penny making more shows to prevent the user attrition that rapidly sets in if the new content stops flowing.
     
     Yeah, and it's got to be (1) exclusive content that (2) people haven't seen. A lot of their new stuff has completely flopped. The Cowboy Bebop thing got my ex to cancel Netflix. (I had been banging on that door a long time but it wasn't until Netflix blew scat all over one of her favorite shows.)
     
     But Netflix has started letting people play Fruit Ninja...inside Netflix. Assuming it's aimed at slowing attrition, it isn't going to help, I think: stupid "match the color" gem games are on the cell phone and Netflix is on in the background, some awful K-drama or whatever. Nobody's gonna ignore their kids to play Punch the Monkey on the big screen.
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:01:03 JST SilverDeth

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     @p @GaryBussy
     
     /e laughs in pi-hole.
     
     What ads?
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:02:15 JST pistolero

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     @SilverDeth @GaryBussy Well, there's getting around it and there's what they're doing and what it means.
     
     I use ytdlp, but I have to do a pull/rebuild more frequently nowadays.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:44:03 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth Cute that they think they run the internet. "let me put something online but you can't have it!"
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:45:26 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @GaryBussy @SilverDeth The only reason they've been able to stop me is that it's mostly shit there.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:51:39 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth I like the videos of people turning their vans into campers and the cat ones.
     
     Bout it for me.
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:52:58 JST SilverDeth

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     @ins0mniak @p @GaryBussy
     
     I'm a sucker for homebrew, obscure and old tech here.
     
     Literally me right now:
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:55:06 JST ins0mniak

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     @SilverDeth @GaryBussy @p i can't remember the channel but I found a cool one on cable box hacking.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 05:58:55 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @SilverDeth @GaryBussy Jawncon was uploaded to Youtube, and I think "Pebble Down the Well" is one of my favorite talks ever.
     
     I think at some point, these conferences might shift to self-hosted Peertube. Normies don't usually roll this shit out so the big ones won't, but small tech conferences are run by hackers.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:16:21 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth youtube used to be fun way back when but it's like cable 2.0 now.
     
     Idk but everyone has these video thumbnails where they're making a stupid face. Like every other one. It pisses me off. I don't go on there much now.
     
     Car chases are fun. I also like the ones of people trying to scam the bank
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:16:43 JST SilverDeth

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     @ins0mniak @p @GaryBussy
     
     I use yandex to search for youtube content. It's own search is worse than garbage - and it was intentionally designed to be exactly that. Their landing page is vomit. Both what they recommend and the content.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:16:51 JST ins0mniak

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     @SilverDeth @GaryBussy @p Yeah, I love searching for something and it just goes "hey fuck you, watch Taylor Swift bullshit instead"
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:17:15 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @SilverDeth @GaryBussy
     
     > Yeah, I love searching for something and it just goes "hey fuck you, watch Taylor Swift bullshit instead"
     
     Paid placement. Many such cases.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:22:51 JST ins0mniak

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     @SilverDeth @GaryBussy @p As long as we're talking about this I just noticed my regular TV remote works on my Kodi box. Like I just realized this lol.
     
     Now that is fucking cool
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:28:32 JST SilverDeth

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     @ins0mniak @GaryBussy @p Inputs are pretty universal, it all comes down to the frequency.
     
     I remember hearing about pacemakers getting wireless connectivity somewhere in the 2000's and my first thought was...
     
     "Hahahaha hey Grandma... I can make grandpa dance with the remote!!! Hehehehehe!"
     
     I am a bad person.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:29:26 JST pistolero

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     @SilverDeth @ins0mniak @GaryBussy
     
     > I remember hearing about pacemakers getting wireless connectivity somewhere in the 2000's and my first thought was...
     
     Oh, shit, yeah, Dick Cheney has the only non-Bluetooth pacemaker in the US. There's that woman that's running that campaign to get the source code for her own pacemaker.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:31:40 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth yeah i disavow.
     
     I hated social media in 2002 and I hate it now. Basically yt took all the lessons and applied it to video
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:31:58 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @GaryBussy @SilverDeth I think 2002 is pre-MySpace.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 06:32:04 JST ins0mniak

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     @SilverDeth @GaryBussy @p yeah just funny that I never noticed before lol.
     
     Oh I can use a flipper on my cats lost and found chip lol
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:08:20 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth be a shame if that got hacked....just a shame
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:08:26 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth it was proto social man. I forget but there were a few nacent fuckers showing up
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:08:47 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @GaryBussy @SilverDeth I think it was, like, AOL back then.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:43:10 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth just as bad almost.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:43:30 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth naw there was like frantically tho no?
     
     Meh either way might have been later. I still hated the shit
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 07:44:40 JST pistolero

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     @ins0mniak @GaryBussy @SilverDeth
     
     > I still hated the shit
     
     It was awful. ICQ roulette was fun, though, because a bunch of extra friendly Malaysians would hit you up in the middle of the night.
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 08:42:48 JST Judge Dread

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     @p The QE money drying up is an economy-wide phenomenon. J.C. Slater predicted it years ago - the Fed ditched 'modern monetary theory' in the wake of the massive post-covid inflation. They cut off the money printer funding of profitless corporations because they feared another few years of 2022 levels of inflation and it'd be Weimer Republic downfall time. CIA was just one of the funnels through which the money flowed. Youtube is GOOG and GOOG is, of course, a CIA front.
     
     I had not heard of Netflix integrating simplistic app games.
     
     Pathetic.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 08:43:54 JST pistolero

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     > Youtube is GOOG and GOOG is, of course, a CIA front.
     
     Or whoever. DoD, DoJ, FBI, all really cozy with them.
     
     > Pathetic.
     
     It's a grasp. It's not working out for them.
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 08:45:13 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth
     
     Not frantically fucking autocorrect. Cat took over the chair so on the phone
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     ins0mniak (ins0mniak@mikoshidata.cloud)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 08:45:25 JST ins0mniak

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     @p @GaryBussy @SilverDeth oh yeah that was fun lol.
     
     Yahoo chat was wild tho man. There were some weirdos on that shit bro.
     
     A/s/l?
     
     Ha beat it fucker!
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     SilverDeth (silverdeth@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 08:55:24 JST SilverDeth

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     > It's a grasp. It's not working out for them.
     
     Almost nothing I love more than glowies trying to catch falling knives and... missing...
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     Judge Dread (judgedread@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:42:48 JST Judge Dread

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     @p Yeah, CIA and NSA funded Brin and Page's original research on converting the internet into a panoptic scanning machine to institute eternal slavery. They're all thick as thieves.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 15-May-2025 10:44:11 JST pistolero

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     @judgedread Not an accident that Eric Schmidt is BFFs with the Clintons and that he now has his own department in the Pentagon. (Burning Man is decadent and depraved.)
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