What they usually do is spend pages on male celebrities. All but one of their 2018 issues were cover stories about male celebrities. It’s fair that random PoC on Twitter can weigh in, but I don’t recall any of that making it into the news cycle about Esquire wasting pages on fluff jobs.
And while there is no scarcity of outrage, there is a scarcity of time and attention. What is a better focus of the latter? Being mad about an article about young white males or maybe being mad that Esquire typically just wastes pages on celebrity profiles when it could be using its reach for something of more importance?
Also, while I have never been a young black male, I might be interested in reading an article about that experience. Likewise, I can also be interested in an article about being a young white male, something I’ve experienced. If we can have one, we should be ok with having the other.
I will say Esquire was pretty clumsy to run this piece during Black History Month, unless that was deliberate.
I hard about this yesterday. This is the first article to really explain though in a way I fully understood, and now I am grossed out.
Since we like to pendulum these sorts of things next up, some parent or family member targeted for an innocent video or share because at no point can we just employ thinking humans to deal with this stuff.
I agree. These companies need to eat some profit and hire groups to handle this stuff, and yeah, it will be an awful job that might even attract the group they’re combating, so figure that out too while they’re at it.
I heard somewhere that moderating or policing this kind of stuff is like the most soul crushing job you can get, and people can’t do it for more than a couple months without suffering depression or something similar.
I imagine it would be something like Citizen X describes, where they find out, I believe it was the FBI, that they have to rotate people off this sort of thing. You can’t do that for past x amount of time without serious mental and emotional stress. This would not be cheap. It would require training and then of course you can’t keep them on it… but they need to do it.
Not quite at this level of filth but I did similar for over a year at my company. It was awful, draining, and made me a much more negative person. I feel bad for the person who was volunteered to take it over.
My college internship was with the IT department of the NYCDOJ. They got computers involved in criminal cases. They had software that would crack almost any HDD security. Part of the job (not for us interns, of course) was searching drives for kiddy porn. And yes, it was soul crushing. The detectives I worked with purely hated it.
My favorite part about the #youtubewakeup situation is that the users are completely fucking insane. Right now, people are openly criticizing people bringing this news to light, saying that this will hurt youtube, and ruin the site.
Basically, if the advertisers pull out, youtube is in trouble, so we shouldn’t make a big fuss.
Fucking bonkers. The shit going on in Matt Watson’s video on it is insane. Thousands of videos with gross comments, timestamps, and links to explicit sites.
Fuck Youtube. I get my game clips demonetized because there is an 8bit cover of “Billie Jean” playing, which was claimed by EMI, and yet there are ads for days on these horrible vids. Fucking gross.
I really like YouTube. I actually like the algorithm when it’s working to show me stuff like exercise videos, hearthstone decks, music videos, I find lots of good stuff because of the algorithm. But they need to police their users.
I don’t know the answer other than a forced manual review of each uploaded video. Anything with a kid or targeted toward kids needs to be reviewed at a bare minimum.
Manual review is impossible. Every minute there’s approximately 400 hours of new video uploaded to YouTube. That’s 16.67 days worth of video per minute.
No problem, they “just” need to hire 3000 people to each watch 16 uploads at the same time for 12 hours per day and screen them perfectly every day for the rest of time.
This reminds me of the little town on the Washington coast near where my mom lives. It’s a beach/tourist spot during the summer. Well, a couple years back, the local go-cart track was shut down- the owner was arrested for it being the center of a huge local drug ring. This was going on as vaguely public knowledge for years. But lots of locals were pissed, since it meant that it would depress the tourist industry for the summer. Teenagers had died ODing on heroin. But the money was more important. Fuckers.
