The Random Crap Thread 2: It Hits the Fan.

IronBrig4

IronBrig4

My YouTube algorithm got all screwed up. It started with me looking at videos from the Paris Olympics. YouTube recommended a few videos from this travel guide showing how to spot scams in Paris. Apparently there are a lot of scammer gangs who run shell games on tourists. The scammers all exude an aura that just screams former Warsaw Pact. They remind me of the Tracksuit Mafia from Hawkeye ("WHAT you say, bro?"). Forty years ago, they would have had guaranteed employment patrolling the Berlin Wall. I actually want to visit France in a few years so those videos were helpful. The next recommendation was one of those police dashcam videos where idiots try to run insurance scams by backing into someone. Okay, that was a funny video and I had a good laugh when the scam artists realized they had tried to scam a cop. I went to bed.

I got up this morning and opened my YouTube. Now all my recommended videos are from those weird far-right influencers. Apparently everything they don't like is WOKE. Woke, woke, woke. Scammers are woke. Porch pirates are woke. Falcon as Captain America is woke. The thumbnails all had that harsh 4K lighting. The titles also got strange.

"WOKE Tesla driver tries to punch biker!"
"Watch this WOKE pro-Palestinian protester get DEMOLISHED by FACTS!"

I might infer that people who are worried about being the victim of a petty crime or scam are the same type who are worried about changing cultural norms. There is a great deal of palpable anger in those comment sections.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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IronBrig4 said:
My YouTube algorithm got all screwed up. It started with me looking at videos from the Paris Olympics. YouTube recommended a few videos from this travel guide showing how to spot scams in Paris. Apparently there are a lot of scammer gangs who run shell games on tourists. The scammers all exude an aura that just screams former Warsaw Pact. They remind me of the Tracksuit Mafia from Hawkeye ("WHAT you say, bro?"). Forty years ago, they would have had guaranteed employment patrolling the Berlin Wall. I actually want to visit France in a few years so those videos were helpful. The next recommendation was one of those police dashcam videos where idiots try to run insurance scams by backing into someone. Okay, that was a funny video and I had a good laugh when the scam artists realized they had tried to scam a cop. I went to bed.

I got up this morning and opened my YouTube. Now all my recommended videos are from those weird far-right influencers. Apparently everything they don't like is WOKE. Woke, woke, woke. Scammers are woke. Porch pirates are woke. Falcon as Captain America is woke. The thumbnails all had that harsh 4K lighting. The titles also got strange.

"WOKE Tesla driver tries to punch biker!"
"Watch this WOKE pro-Palestinian protester get DEMOLISHED by FACTS!"

I might infer that people who are worried about being the victim of a petty crime or scam are the same type who are worried about changing cultural norms. There is a great deal of palpable anger in those comment sections.
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Just putting this out there... did you leave yourself logged into youtube on any device accessible by anyone else? Smart TV? Tablet?
 
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