So pewdiepie did a tweet, making a joke about raiding the Vatican. I guess it was a joke playing off the raid of area 51. So I posted the meme below and in the tweet itself I said, “The Pope is demanding pewdiepie be stopped playing Minecraft” or something like that and with a smile after it to let people know I was joking. On Twitter, users now have the ability to hide replies to tweets in the thread. pewdiepie’s people hid my tweet and my response was to delete the tweet and then to block pewdiepie. I then unsubscribed from him on youtube.
In the past, those of us who support free speech rushed to his defense. We did not want him harmed or suppressed.
Now understand, on twitter when a person blocks, mutes, hides someone then that figures into how Twitter judges the account that has been blocked, muted, or a reply hidden. It all figures in how Twitter’s AI decides how many impressions they should give a tweet or if that user should be totally suppressed. And the more important an account is that does the activity, the greater the harm they can do to other accounts. Also realize that twitter shares its data with google/youtube so the harm done on twitter crosses platforms.
Because of politics and my attempted humor, I’ve been hit by more than just a few hate bots both on twitter and youtube. My youtube channel now gets almost no views, not that it was ever that popular anyway.
Now, when the pewdiepie controversy first started many of us old timers realized that pewdiepie is NOT what he seems to be. But it was a free speech issue and that is what we wanted to stand up for. When we looked at the data we realized part of his traffic is bot traffic operated by someone. To whether he is part of or understands or knows about, who knows. You look at that entire group of creators who hang together, their success is totally suspect. Yes, they have fans. Part of their success is totally real. Also, the perception of success in itself can build success because people are birds who like to flock together no matter how shitty the eating in the field is.
So part of their success is real and based on fundamentals and a lot of hard work. But part of their success is total bullshit. With many of them it is hard to say what is the real traffic and what is the bot traffic, but when you see a total shit video with millions of views you have to consider two things:
1, Wow, youtube has a lot of people who are jerking off to crap videos.
or
2. A sizeable part of those views are bots that youtube either can’t detect or doesn’t want to detect because youtube is making money off those bots.
I am not speaking of pewdiepie but people who use bots in general. The job of those bots is to not just build a channel up but to tear other competing channels down. So anyway, after his people hid my reply tweet and either intentionally or unintentionally aimed to do harm to me, I blocked the son of a bitch. (error corrected, I have no idea why that previously said video)
If you are a fan of pewdiepie, cool. I am not trying to hurt him. I am just explaining the situation of why I blocked him. Anytime I discover anyone is doing shit to hurt me, they get blocked and/or unsubscribed. I don’t care who the fuck they are.
And yes, I do realize that part of my problem has nothing to do with other people but that I simply have a giant L on my forehead and my content may not be as good as it needs to be.
