I've recently learned that American Zoomers love to learn about politics, science, and history through YouTube videos. Kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, and many other capitalist funded trash
I've told a friend about France receiving billions in payments from "former colonies" for their "independence" every year and their first instinct was to search up a YouTube video in front of me to learn more while I was trying to Google for a primary source of the hard financial data and agreements signed
People were lecturing me about how Putin thinks and will act based on videos they've seen from CGP Grey (like Rules for Rulers LOL). As if a man like Putin can be so easily understood and predicted from a dumb tech bro who watched an 8 minute cartoon yt video, especially given the context that he is the leader of such an enormous country like Russia
I felt bad, it was genuinely their only news source and they later become a chud. I really hope I didn’t play a role in that. Still, they deserved it even if voicing it was bad.
If they literally get their news from YouTube and find Rogan informative, it was inevitable barring major intervention. The algorithm is already pulling them right towards that swamp, and they don't seem like the most aware or savvy media consumer.
Yeah, that’s all good points. This person I particular had a fucked childhood that I only learned about later, so I just regret not being able to form a different relationship and maybe address that in a positive manner or something.
Still, probably inevitable as you said.
I've found that most young right-wingers are either rich, socialized in private schools, or had really fucked up childhoods. There is something about a trusted authority figure really abusing that trust which makes them simultaneously crave authority but despise 'big government'. They love the police but hate the government that makes them possible. Completely incoherent.