to agree with Luke's statement that he never hated a brand for advertising on some unsavory content, i'd like to add to it : i never hated a brand for advertising on unsavory content, because they probably didn't even know they were advertising on that specific content, i'm more enclined to hate on creators that accept ad spots from unsavory sponsors (like every f'ing Better Help sponsor spots, for crying out loud do they not even research these companies before accepting a sposonship???).
Most sponsorships are unsavoury, very often the stuff promoted in the VPN ads are straight up lies, those raycon line reads are also lies, LTT literally promoted crypto at one point, there's just so much garbage promoted.
Eh, i tend to have a somewhat lower opinion of some brands depending on the type of platform they advertise on. Like, a YT ad is imo better than an adult site ad, and some brands might come to see X more in line with the latter.
@@lukasg_well of course but in a platform as open as YT, Twitter, Instagram, you can't be mad at say vite ramen for their ad being on a post made by someone who supports more extreme points of view especially when their content is unrelated.
Better help really helped me in a big way about a year and a half ago. I was going through the loss of a family member, as well as some big relationships changes at the time. I couldn’t afford a therapist, so I just tried out better help. Imo, the therapist I talked to really helped me a lot over the next year. But you watched a UA-cam video that said they were bad, so you probably know better. Keep advocating against therapy 👍
Tweetdeck made it so it could be an aggregate of anything you want. When you follow thousands of accounts it becomes impossible not to use it. And tweetdeck was one of the first things to get put behind a paywall.
To me it's actually the opposite, I judge websites way more heavily about the type of ads they run than the advertiser about what content or website it is featured on. So if I click on a conspiracy theory video and it has an Amazon ad, I'm ok with Amazon. On the other hand, UA-cam recently in Brazil is flooded with Chinese scammy online casinos, and it is disgusting, my opinion of UA-cam is going down even more because of it.
@@alr2157 Absolutely, most vtubers mainly use twitter so yea, theres still no alternative to twitter. I got to see some fanarts easily and follow my favorite vtubers
This all reminds me of when Yahoo bought Tumblr. I never did find a replacement for tumblr - I just stopped using it all together. However, the X downfall is literally a slow burning sinking ship at this point compared to the quick stab with tumblr. Tumblr didn’t die completely but a large group of people did stop using the platform.
The funny thing about that... All the Tumblr exiles migrated over to Twitter. In a bizzare bit, Elon Musk's regime caused child abuse accounts to get banned rather quickly, but Twitter under Dorsey had trouble getting rid of them. I wonder if most of those child SAM accounts were truly feds?
16:00 One theory I have trouble discounting is that they wanted to shut down a website where effective organizing was taking place. They may be "phoning it in" instead of just shutting the site down immediately in order to delay the rise of alternatives.
I'm curious if the click-through rates from twitter have fallen off a cliff or if it is truly just companies virtue signalling. I have to imagine they are not walking away from a profitable advertising platform because its the morally correct thing to do.
This probably is. It's peak capitalism, otherwise we've seen how companies have no qualms literally sponsoring full blown apartheid, racism, classism, sponsoring assassinations, bribing politicians through lobbyists, etc etc. Most likely they just took one look at it and said "Well it's not like this is gonna hurt us, let's just walk away before we get more controversies and social pressure".
CTR on Twitter has always been abysmal (allegedly from what I've seen from people that work in advertising), the issue is the fact that there are even fewer people on Twitter than there were before so it's gone down proportionally.
Several Forbes and NYT sources in advertising this week have pointed out that Twitter has never been a "must-have" for advertisers. It's wasn't particularly popular compared to its competition even before Space Karen bought it.
if anything advertiser were okay with it for what could be a pretty simple reason, a lot people would use it. With how things been shaping up on traffic data done by different groups and the apps store downloads, the fact these numbers so far indicate a decline on usage and downloads just means a lot advertiser are probably looking for reasons to stop advertising on twitter. Also on the likes showing up on people, it'll also at least on "For you" tab will show likes of people you follow, but also show likes of the people of those people that they follow to you sometimes.
Who do you think Linus meant when he said questionable collabs? Only person I can think of is maybe Twomad lol. Edit: RIP Twomad, he was a troubled man atomized by the internet who never got the help he needed. It's hard to be sincere about a man so poisoned by his own irony, but to me his videos were some of the funniest and most unique ones of the early 2020s.
@@TrentOhNo Yeah those are wild though Hasan is worse in every capacity guy actively drums up lies, is total hypocrite in his life style to what he "preaches" all while acting pretty smug... though his fanbase is fading out reasonably quick these days as I guess more people using their brains a touch.
A lot of folks here saying they don't understand who would associate a company with a random tweet it's next to have never met older people. My mom saw some rats near a dumpster outside a local hot dog chain thirty years ago. She still won't eat at any of their locations. She's just associates the restaurant with rats. It's not logical, but it's how our brains work.
Uhhh yeah because that's like way fucking different lol. Rats near a physical location COULD mean something. Tweets composed randomly in a twitter feed isn't even close to the same thing and no one actually thinks that way.
I was wondering if the only goal of Meta creating thread is not just a genius plan to punction enough customers from Twitter hoping it would hurt them financially. They can afford to finance the losses if it could hurt/kill their opponent and then their fail social network would be the only alternative once it died.
They don’t even have to get people over on thread. If spending less time on Twitter makes people spend a bit more time on Metas other social networks it’s a win. So both Twitter and Thread could die and it could still be a win for Meta
I don't even think they're intentially trying to hurt Twitter, they just want to have their option out there so that _when_ Twitter collapses theirs is the most appealing option.
"They can afford to finance the losses if it could hurt/kill their opponent and then their fail social network would be the only alternative once it died." That has been meta/facebook's MO forever. Either that or just buying their competition outright. They couldn't get snapchat so they took one of the main features of it (stories).
There's a difference between the content that the users generate on a site and what the owner themselves puts out, and for an advertiser it's the shield of plausible deniability.
I see it like being at someone's house for a house party. There's gonna be people there talking about and doing stuff we don't like and we just avoid those people. However, when the host of the party stops the music, gets up on the kitchen table, and outspokenly says some God awful stuff, yeah it's time to leave the party.
True story, I watch LMG clips all the time and they get recommended to me in my UA-cam feed frequently, but I never watch the actual live stream itself. The “Go F yourself debrand” live stream popped up in my UA-cam feed on Friday and it was the first WAN show live stream that has ever been recommended to me in my feed 😂
one point to add would be what the action of supporting such a tweet means, when your the ceo of the platform. I think there is a small difference between a company trying to medigate controversial content on their platform ineffectively (like twitter was doing its whole life) and outright supporting said content in a ceo tweet while simultanously changing the content-showing algorythm on the plattform and making musks account basically being shown on the whole plattform to almost every user, which in turn looks from the outside like the company is supporting said content actively. As an advertiser this would make a massive difference, its not s much about having your content next to some controversial statement in like one of 99 cases and much more about giving money to a company, to whom you wouldnt like to be affiliated anymore because of their changing image. Its a bit like Twitter becoming 4chan , although in much more milder terms
I think in relation to not associating ads with the content they’re near, it’s not entirely about consciously putting it together, but subconsciously being in that negative mindset and then associating it with that brand.
@@alr2157 Blackmail means that someone demands something in exchange for not leaking sensitive or damaging information. Advertisers choosing not to advertise in poorly moderated online spaces isn't blackmail. To answer your question, yes, it is okay. That's what it means to live in a world with people who don't blindly believe what you believe. Disagreements happen, pressure is applied. It's just the way things are.
@@alr2157What? How is not paying Elon for advertising a violation of Elon's free speech? He was still able to say what he wanted, no one silenced him. Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're free from consequences of that speech, it just means the government can't prosecute you for that speech. If you say you hate me, I'm free to not buy for your business. No freedoms are infringed in either scenario
Elon scared off advertisers because of: - His support of the idea that that there is an active Jewish plot to destroy the West through miscegenation and immigration policies due to a lack of loyalty towards Western nations - That a DC area pizza restaurant supports sex trafficking and child sex abuse materials being ran by political elites, even though that specific claim about that specific pizza place was debunked when an armed gunman stormed it in order to check based on internet blueprints.
Elon doesn't support free speech because: - Twitter actively allows users to pay a fee to see replies at the top, which isn't "free speech", it's paid speech. - Twitter is as restrictive as its always been. Elon just supports specific prominent right wing political figures and shields them while less prominent right wing political figures still receive bans or suppression, and the political left on Twitter still receives the same amount of bans and suppression. - Twitter also has banned or restricted certain political phrases and social markers based on the whims of Elon Musk (e.g. Cis, "from the river to the sea", specific criticisms of India president Narendra Modi, etc)
So from what I understand of the "Go F yourself" thing, a lot of it is a context issue... The whole thing stemmed from Media Matters curating and forcing a situation where advertising was placed alongside "unseemly" content, then they and their influenced companies created a massive controversy to intentionally "motivate" other advertisers to pull their content. It's a targeted attack and advertisers who willingly go along with the false controversy are doing so under intentionally mean spirited or bad faith motivations. It's like getting a job in the waterworks department, poisoning the water, then blaming the city. The whole thing was a hit job to attempt to force heavy-handed censorship. Elon went on to say his reason for that statement was this: "What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. F*** them." Anyone going along with the hit piece are playing into the dark side of modern media, where all it takes is an accusation of wrongdoing to destroy someone's life. I'm not an Elon/Tesla fanboy by any means, nor do I use Twitter/X, but I do side with him on this. A free platform carries some risk that ads *might* appear next to unsavory things. There are safeguards that prevent it ~95% of the time, but it *can* happen, especially if you manufacture the whole thing yourself. I'd rather risk occasional slips than to lock people out of free and open discussions.
They have been going on about this since the start of the takeover, even though at that point, it was mostly the old Twitter algo. The BBC interview this year was telling, the reporter accused Musk of what you are saying, when asked for evidence, the guy crumpled like a house made straws. ALL OF THESE COMPANIES RUN AD CAMPAIGNS on TIKTOK..... where do you think all of the terrorist videos from the first days of the HAMAS attack came from. Extreme Hypocrites.
Thing is, is the written report really the reason advertisers are stopping? from what I know the real reason is that compares to the return on ad investment you get from other social media like Instagram and Facebook, twitter simply doesn't provide enough value to make it worth advertising. It's not like you cant find bigoted content on those other platforms, its just that brands are willing to overlook that for access to a much larger userbase and better targeting. Report or not, I'm willing to bet a ton of these brands would have stopped advertising on twitter anyway simply because by their estimations, its not worth the money. It's not like Facebook and Instagram really have that much better of a reputation, they offer a better "product" in terms of a userbase to advertise to
sources on any of this? All i can find is lawsuits from X alleging that media matter forced it but there isn't any actual evidence produced on this so calling it a "hit piece" at the moment is a little much especially since Musk himself have gotten the company in hot water in other areas already. It's not like he isn't prone to screwing up twitter (like firing their compliance officers and wondering why countries are suddenly circling them for non compliance). Just sound like confirmation bias making you side with Musk on this for you.
I've seen so many advertisers advertising alcohol or M/R rated tv shows or movies, who dont want to be advertised on anything with a single "fuck" in it. It makes no sense
Just as the for you twitter algorithm finally got perfect for me, no drama, no politics, just art and the occasional related memes. Took me months of carefully never clicking certain things and aggressively liking other things. I just hope people don't fragment and scatter to too many platforms, especially the ones hostile to art and non-Americans.
Advertisers are not obligated to do so with any company and they do it when they see benefit. At this point no one can see any benefit of doing so and the only reason for this is Elon but he of course is going to blame everyone else.
It's the advertisers that are "worried" about negative support metrics, the viewers do not think about it. And the advertisers are not worried about running ads on controversial topics but about how much positive publicity can be gained from making a big deal about not supporting it. Instead of paying to have an ad run they make a public announcement about how they will not support X, Y, or Z and the press does the advertising for free. Talking about how Disney is pulling ads from Shitter is running a Disney ad for free. The true controversial do not run ads on stuff is handled quietly behind the scenes by the ad agency.
We have American politicians (Elon new friends) who has said they want corporations investigated for not donating money to their party. So Elon suggesting advertisers should be punished for not giving him money is in perfect alignment with that.
I only learned that advertisers didn't or did the shotgun approach after they started to pull ads from youtube. If you look at website banner ads, they don't always align with the websites interests. I think there's some Streisand in this. Advertisers pulling out of certain content, the Adpocalypse gaining ears of millions of people, set the expectations of people that advertisers endorse the content, instead of content endorsing advertisers. Regardless if shotgun or not, the public knowledge of them selectively advertising, makes every advertisement effectively seem hand picked and placed by knowing about their ability to withdraw it.
I will really miss twitter, it had some absolutely amazing niches with mostly cool people. If you stayed away from the right topics and accounts it could actually be a reasonably positive platform. But in it‘s current stage I‘d rather watch it burn to the ground and hope something else will come and replace it.
Stock shorting is where you borrow a stock and immediately sell it with the assumption you will return the stock after buying it back for cheaper and hopefully get most of your money back
i want a bankruptcy judge to tell them that if the company stays under musks ownership there is no chance to restructure it, and should close and liquidate its assets, then musk should pay the employees first before the bank loans.
These days highly controversial stuff will always be put next to other brands. UA-cam ads are a perfect example of this happening on a daily basis. For example, two ads play before a video. The first ad could be for a brand of an everyday item e.g. food, clothing etc. However next advert could be advertisements for war missiles, scams or get rich quick schemes. I have lost count of the times when this has happened to me when on UA-cam. Even if adverts are reported to UA-cam due to how distressing the footage in the adverts is, given a couple of weeks that same advertiser adverts are back being shown. E.g. the war missiles advertiser I mentioned above was showing footage of how much damage their weapons did for a currently happening war in the world, which you could help fund. Lost count of the times I reported the advertiser and lost count of the different adverts I was shown by the same advertiser over a long period of time. Hence if advertisers want to promote their brand, unless they control the platform themselves, they need to come to terms with the fact their ads will be put next to controversial stuff like the examples above.
Agreed. I feel like the standard middle-man model of online advertising, where some third party (Google) sits between the advertisers and the content providers they're displayed on makes that kind of thing inevitable. It prevents the content provider and advertisers from being seen directly working with each other and thereby implicitly endorsing each other, as might've been the case in classical mediums like TV, radio, newspapers, etc. I actually feel that, when online, the opposite situation (where a NSFW ad is shown alongside SFW content) is typically received much worse than the other way around.
Just like Trump's 'Drain the swamp' comment. Sure they were full of shit when they said those things, but it's looking more and more like they're going to accidentally make good on those statements, just not in the way they meant!
@@alr2157 No it's not, lmao. It's called free market capitalism, baby. I thought you Musk lovers used to like free market capitalism? Would you prefer a world where advertisers are mandated to advertise on a terrible platform no one likes anymore named X?
These Musk lovers used to love free market capitalism. Now all the sudden the free market is blackmail. lol Who knew that advertisers are obligated to put ads on racist hubs?!
@@CodexF0X look it up. "...Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information" Note the word FALSE. And then try understand what this means: putting pressure on someone to abide, and if it doesn't work, to try to paint him as anti-semitic? Thats blackmail.
I agree with linus. Company's are very much guilty by association. Look at the companies still running in Russia, they continuously get boycotted and news articles keep roasting them.
I think what is being missed by many in this debate is that while Disney may have pulled their advertising, they have not shut down their own Twitter / X accounts. Maybe if they'd done the latter it would be more meaningful. Perhaps that is what Elon was so eloquently trying to explain...
@@C0mmentC0p Think this is in reference to reposting pizzagate consipiracies and shit like that. Which, ya know, is what precipitated all this to begin with.
@@alr2157Clearly don't understand what "free speech" actually is. And if you're a free speech absolutist, how does an advertiser choosing not to advertise on a platform mean an attack on free speech. They're just exercising their free speech choice.
@@TehCheese you guys clearly are delusional. none of these companies actually care about the content and the boycott isn't organic. these people want to pressure Musk to get back the control they lost. you got Hamas propaganda on tiktok, childporn on instagram and way worse stuff on all the other platforms. this is clearly political and ideological
@@alr2157 its funny how the viewer base is a reflection of the creator. they never were that political but in the last few months their left wing bias came through. but its weird that they are that uninformed on this topic.
this is pure speculation but while youtube collects our data for the sake of "targeting ads" amd probably offers advertisers to advertise for specific demographics but the advertisers don't care and just buy adspace to show their ads for EVERYONE even people who this product is entirely irrelevant like idk showing tampon ads to male viewers or speakers to a deaf person. so one is definitely is messing up because i have not seen a change in the ads i see after asking several sites to not show me targeted ads.
Its pointless discussing this subject without looking at the reasons why musk did what he did. He refused to limit the free speech on X, then certain companies threatened to withdraw revenue unless he gave in to their demands. I dont like elon musk but in this case i think he had the moral high ground. Linus always skirts around discussing awkward subjects, he avoids making any statements that could cause him trouble or getting cancelled. I understand why he does this but i do believe he shouldnt cover these types of subjects if he will not cover it fully or state an opinion or report the full facts. This was a very disengenuous and weak vid.
I cant believe you missed the obvious that people are upset about. Its not about choosing to advertise elsewhere, but the coordinated effort to pull advertising...
It's only coordinated because A. Elon is one of the most public figures on the planet and he's referencing or endorsing incredibly dangerous conspiracy theories B. Most major corporations work with the Big 3 Ad Agencies (WPP, Omnicom, and Publicis Groupe) and know about spending habits of other businesses. It's more concidental than coordinated as Musk has shown support of the idea that that there is an active Jewish plot to destroy the West. Why the hell would any rational person want to be associated with it? In addition, they clearly want to come back but every time they do, Musk does another stupid action. Plus, ad revenues have been sliding down for Twitter since Musk took over, even prior to his outbursts.
I think brands are scared more of negative press and click-baity headlines - an advert of theirs appears ambiguously in front of a racist Tweet, it's easy to make a headline that makes an argument they're supporting that content.
Honestly, I'm shocked the company itself haven't implemented a gag order on Elon because so much of what's going on at Twitter is entirely self-inflicted especially by Elon. He tried to change it to a new name that hasn't really stuck because people still refer to it as formerly known as twitter. He tried to make the checkmark system profitable without understanding the whole reason why it existed in the first place (then brought back legacy checkmarks because parody accounts jumped on that bandwagon so hard then ended up having to actually verifying accounts anyway). Keep hanging out with racists and anti semites while regularly posting unhinged takes himself. Actively attack advertisers and act confuse why they don't want to give him money. I can keep going but it all could have been easily avoided if Musk would stop and think for 2 seconds.
Advertisers want to make the most money so they must accommodate all types or consumers. Filtering consumers that aren't sensitive = losing potential money.
@traplover6357 your talking about a company trying to reach a loud yet small percentage of people, In the past a company had a responsibility to shareholders to generate the maximum amount of profits while staying within the law, ESG was implemented so they could legally skirt around their obligation to shareholders while pushing progressive ideals which allowed them to secure finance with black Rock and vanguard depending on their ESG score. Back when bud light decided to grab that small minority of people pushing their agenda they lost most of their customer base with nothing to fill the void, not even that small minority. Disney recently had a shareholder meeting talking about how the interest they are trying to push do not align with what the overall market wants and that being the sole reason they are running at a loss in profits.
Twitter was already loosing millions when he bought it. It was used as a tool by the government to censor people. Cancel culture and the woke virus were all over the place. Elon came and fired all the woke agents and reduced the money bleed, but his free speech plan is not accepted by the system. The system wants to control speech so it controls the people. Assange, Snowden warned us again and again. Are you that blind and deaf?
It's 100% the advertisers fault though. If you value hate speech laws more than freedom of speech and by extention freedom of information you can move to some dystopia police state.
I really think this comes down to the advertisers being perfectly fine advertising on it when it censored people for opinions but did nothing about reported CSA content, but are now pulling out due to misaligned views when the platform does the opposite. People see these advertisers as antithetical to the morals they hold (and it some cases, justifiably) and will blame them when the very obviously financially unviable platform takes an early grave.
This isn't "misaligned views" expressed on the platform. Why are you trying to be coy? This is the owner of the platform openly endorsing blatantly anti-Semitic conspiracy content. This isn't some grey area or a question about freeze peaches. Advertisers are not required to fund white supremacy movements, despite what Apartheid Musk would like.
I think it's a matter of seeing your logo in a viral controversial news article even if there's no association. Like seeing a photo of a burning car with a gas station logo in the background. Someone just scrolling by might make quick assumptions without the full context. I think that's the sort of association they are attempting to wash off. The corporations probably wouldn't care if the news wasn't so viral.
i got miles and miles of political garbage shoved in my face random celeb shit and sports and yes i blocked that already in options and it still keep popping up so yes the for you tab is absolutely unuseable at least for me
These advertisers also will stop advertising on twitter and then go around to press core about how they stopped because the craziest reasons. if MSI stoped advertising with you and then spent billions and advertising elseware about how they stopped advertising with you because of the most petty things... you can see why im sure he is tired of dealing with the sleeziest companies.
its weird when people think advertisers owe you something, as if they have a duty to fund your hate platform and its their fault when it fails not the ... richest person in the world who owns it and cant keep his mouth shut
It not about ESG driven advertisers owing something. It's them demanding do as we say, or else. And Elon doing that stupid retweet actually was not how the thing started (doctored Media Matters report), it's just a cherry on top. And IMHO GFY from Elon was quite deserved. Large advertisers overstepping their boundaries (advertising their products) is overwhelming these days and UA-cam Adpocalipse that happened a few years ago is a great example of that. The difference it that UA-cam caved in, Elon on other hand said GFY.
*_Do you really want advertisers controlling the narrative of your life??? Grow a pair and stick up for yourself and the people around you, instead of sticking up for the people actively making your life more difficult._*
@@alr2157 No they did it because they don't want to be associated with that, yeah he has free speech, but freedom of speech comes with consequences, free speech in the United States is not 100%, ever, and it's foolish to think so.
Elon’s biggest mistake was assuming that people used twitter. Most of my friends 20-30 only post on twitter every couple of months. Twitter is a megaphone for the elite but is not regular used by normal people.
The amount of elon musk simps that were trying to spin this into a "Elon Based' argument was absolutely INSANE over the weekend. Glad that Linus is talking about how insane Elon is.
to agree with Luke's statement that he never hated a brand for advertising on some unsavory content, i'd like to add to it : i never hated a brand for advertising on unsavory content, because they probably didn't even know they were advertising on that specific content, i'm more enclined to hate on creators that accept ad spots from unsavory sponsors (like every f'ing Better Help sponsor spots, for crying out loud do they not even research these companies before accepting a sposonship???).
Most sponsorships are unsavoury, very often the stuff promoted in the VPN ads are straight up lies, those raycon line reads are also lies, LTT literally promoted crypto at one point, there's just so much garbage promoted.
Eh, i tend to have a somewhat lower opinion of some brands depending on the type of platform they advertise on. Like, a YT ad is imo better than an adult site ad, and some brands might come to see X more in line with the latter.
@@lukasg_well of course but in a platform as open as YT, Twitter, Instagram, you can't be mad at say vite ramen for their ad being on a post made by someone who supports more extreme points of view especially when their content is unrelated.
Better help really helped me in a big way about a year and a half ago. I was going through the loss of a family member, as well as some big relationships changes at the time. I couldn’t afford a therapist, so I just tried out better help. Imo, the therapist I talked to really helped me a lot over the next year.
But you watched a UA-cam video that said they were bad, so you probably know better. Keep advocating against therapy 👍
Didn't Better Help improve a lot since the controversy a couple of years ago?
This episode was a huge rollercoaster of genuine insights, humour and just wtf moments, especially that ending lol 10/10
The "For You" tab is an algorithmic cesspit. The "Following" tab is as clean as you make it via your choices of who to follow.
@@alr2157I'd say most people would agree that the UA-cam home feed is an algorithmic cesspool
Tweetdeck made it so it could be an aggregate of anything you want. When you follow thousands of accounts it becomes impossible not to use it. And tweetdeck was one of the first things to get put behind a paywall.
To me it's actually the opposite, I judge websites way more heavily about the type of ads they run than the advertiser about what content or website it is featured on.
So if I click on a conspiracy theory video and it has an Amazon ad, I'm ok with Amazon. On the other hand, UA-cam recently in Brazil is flooded with Chinese scammy online casinos, and it is disgusting, my opinion of UA-cam is going down even more because of it.
Honestly, I just mainly use Twitter for following vtubers and artists, thats it.
and it's good for your use, isn't it?
@@alr2157 Absolutely, most vtubers mainly use twitter so yea, theres still no alternative to twitter. I got to see some fanarts easily and follow my favorite vtubers
It does work, but it's like a family dinner everything is great until uncle jerry starts talking about politics.
@@alr2157I'd rather those creators move to Mastodon.
I keep the people I know irl on Instagram + local news and people I don't know irl on Twitter + pop culture stuff with very few excepcions.
This all reminds me of when Yahoo bought Tumblr. I never did find a replacement for tumblr - I just stopped using it all together. However, the X downfall is literally a slow burning sinking ship at this point compared to the quick stab with tumblr. Tumblr didn’t die completely but a large group of people did stop using the platform.
i miss I💜Chaos
The funny thing about that... All the Tumblr exiles migrated over to Twitter. In a bizzare bit, Elon Musk's regime caused child abuse accounts to get banned rather quickly, but Twitter under Dorsey had trouble getting rid of them.
I wonder if most of those child SAM accounts were truly feds?
I get nostalgic for tumblr every so often but after that mass purge & my OG account getting banned I just, I just gave up
it truly did become the new pdf as yahoo intended
#1 App in App Store today LOL
16:00 One theory I have trouble discounting is that they wanted to shut down a website where effective organizing was taking place.
They may be "phoning it in" instead of just shutting the site down immediately in order to delay the rise of alternatives.
I'm curious if the click-through rates from twitter have fallen off a cliff or if it is truly just companies virtue signalling. I have to imagine they are not walking away from a profitable advertising platform because its the morally correct thing to do.
This probably is. It's peak capitalism, otherwise we've seen how companies have no qualms literally sponsoring full blown apartheid, racism, classism, sponsoring assassinations, bribing politicians through lobbyists, etc etc. Most likely they just took one look at it and said "Well it's not like this is gonna hurt us, let's just walk away before we get more controversies and social pressure".
Are you questioning the logic, of Disney, in 2023? Hmm...
CTR on Twitter has always been abysmal (allegedly from what I've seen from people that work in advertising), the issue is the fact that there are even fewer people on Twitter than there were before so it's gone down proportionally.
Several Forbes and NYT sources in advertising this week have pointed out that Twitter has never been a "must-have" for advertisers. It's wasn't particularly popular compared to its competition even before Space Karen bought it.
@@OllixTV So "Space Karen" isn't really the problem. You know "WebKevin", he's fighting for YOUR freedom of speech too?
if anything advertiser were okay with it for what could be a pretty simple reason, a lot people would use it. With how things been shaping up on traffic data done by different groups and the apps store downloads, the fact these numbers so far indicate a decline on usage and downloads just means a lot advertiser are probably looking for reasons to stop advertising on twitter.
Also on the likes showing up on people, it'll also at least on "For you" tab will show likes of people you follow, but also show likes of the people of those people that they follow to you sometimes.
Who do you think Linus meant when he said questionable collabs? Only person I can think of is maybe Twomad lol.
Edit: RIP Twomad, he was a troubled man atomized by the internet who never got the help he needed. It's hard to be sincere about a man so poisoned by his own irony, but to me his videos were some of the funniest and most unique ones of the early 2020s.
Dream as well, Dream is VERY controversial
100% Hasanabi 😂
its definitely twomad. People will say hasan, but hasan doesnt have pedo allegations at least
@TrentOhNo oooh I didn't hear about that one, how'd I miss all of that
@@TrentOhNo Yeah those are wild though Hasan is worse in every capacity guy actively drums up lies, is total hypocrite in his life style to what he "preaches" all while acting pretty smug... though his fanbase is fading out reasonably quick these days as I guess more people using their brains a touch.
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"Brand X mouthwash, number one mouthwash for adult stars!" would be a hell of a sales pitch!
Memorable, too, so honestly outside of the sheer weirdness of it, it would probably work as advertising.
A lot of folks here saying they don't understand who would associate a company with a random tweet it's next to have never met older people. My mom saw some rats near a dumpster outside a local hot dog chain thirty years ago. She still won't eat at any of their locations. She's just associates the restaurant with rats. It's not logical, but it's how our brains work.
Uhhh yeah because that's like way fucking different lol. Rats near a physical location COULD mean something. Tweets composed randomly in a twitter feed isn't even close to the same thing and no one actually thinks that way.
@@SpartanArmy117 If seeing a rat outside a restaurant meant anything, no one would be safe eating literally anything in New York City lol
I was wondering if the only goal of Meta creating thread is not just a genius plan to punction enough customers from Twitter hoping it would hurt them financially.
They can afford to finance the losses if it could hurt/kill their opponent and then their fail social network would be the only alternative once it died.
They don’t even have to get people over on thread. If spending less time on Twitter makes people spend a bit more time on Metas other social networks it’s a win.
So both Twitter and Thread could die and it could still be a win for Meta
I don't even think they're intentially trying to hurt Twitter, they just want to have their option out there so that _when_ Twitter collapses theirs is the most appealing option.
Possibly trying to get advertisers to spend less on x
"They can afford to finance the losses if it could hurt/kill their opponent and then their fail social network would be the only alternative once it died."
That has been meta/facebook's MO forever. Either that or just buying their competition outright. They couldn't get snapchat so they took one of the main features of it (stories).
Except Meta is dead lol
Him trying to convince us that Elon didn't kill Twitter after changing its name to a letter and cursing at your financial supporters.
"Crest 3D mouthwash- not meant to be swallowed" would go crazy hard
To the prnhub ad, a politition in my homecountry made advertisement on there with the slogan "vote for a fellow w*anker"
There's a difference between the content that the users generate on a site and what the owner themselves puts out, and for an advertiser it's the shield of plausible deniability.
I see it like being at someone's house for a house party. There's gonna be people there talking about and doing stuff we don't like and we just avoid those people. However, when the host of the party stops the music, gets up on the kitchen table, and outspokenly says some God awful stuff, yeah it's time to leave the party.
True story, I watch LMG clips all the time and they get recommended to me in my UA-cam feed frequently, but I never watch the actual live stream itself. The “Go F yourself debrand” live stream popped up in my UA-cam feed on Friday and it was the first WAN show live stream that has ever been recommended to me in my feed 😂
one point to add would be what the action of supporting such a tweet means, when your the ceo of the platform. I think there is a small difference between a company trying to medigate controversial content on their platform ineffectively (like twitter was doing its whole life) and outright supporting said content in a ceo tweet while simultanously changing the content-showing algorythm on the plattform and making musks account basically being shown on the whole plattform to almost every user, which in turn looks from the outside like the company is supporting said content actively. As an advertiser this would make a massive difference, its not s much about having your content next to some controversial statement in like one of 99 cases and much more about giving money to a company, to whom you wouldnt like to be affiliated anymore because of their changing image. Its a bit like Twitter becoming 4chan , although in much more milder terms
I think in relation to not associating ads with the content they’re near, it’s not entirely about consciously putting it together, but subconsciously being in that negative mindset and then associating it with that brand.
I don't think Elon knows what blackmail means.
Yes this is extortion
@@alr2157 blackmail specifically involves threatening the disclosure/publication of of something if the demands are not met.
@@alr2157 Blackmail means that someone demands something in exchange for not leaking sensitive or damaging information. Advertisers choosing not to advertise in poorly moderated online spaces isn't blackmail.
To answer your question, yes, it is okay. That's what it means to live in a world with people who don't blindly believe what you believe. Disagreements happen, pressure is applied. It's just the way things are.
@@alr2157What? How is not paying Elon for advertising a violation of Elon's free speech? He was still able to say what he wanted, no one silenced him.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you're free from consequences of that speech, it just means the government can't prosecute you for that speech. If you say you hate me, I'm free to not buy for your business. No freedoms are infringed in either scenario
@@alr2157 but free speech doesn't mean agreeing, If I don't agree or don't like your message I can get out.
If Twitter is going to be called "X", can we all call tweets "Xcretions".
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I think the big controversy over the cookies is that pokimane called the people watching the stream “poor”.
Twitter: Censored dissenting opinions, interfered in elections. Advertisers: Crickets.
X: Allows free speech. Advertisers: I took that personally! 🤬
By "Free speech" you mean stages 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 of genocide.
Elon scared off advertisers because of:
- His support of the idea that that there is an active Jewish plot to destroy the West through miscegenation and immigration policies due to a lack of loyalty towards Western nations
- That a DC area pizza restaurant supports sex trafficking and child sex abuse materials being ran by political elites, even though that specific claim about that specific pizza place was debunked when an armed gunman stormed it in order to check based on internet blueprints.
Elon doesn't support free speech because:
- Twitter actively allows users to pay a fee to see replies at the top, which isn't "free speech", it's paid speech.
- Twitter is as restrictive as its always been. Elon just supports specific prominent right wing political figures and shields them while less prominent right wing political figures still receive bans or suppression, and the political left on Twitter still receives the same amount of bans and suppression.
- Twitter also has banned or restricted certain political phrases and social markers based on the whims of Elon Musk (e.g. Cis, "from the river to the sea", specific criticisms of India president Narendra Modi, etc)
LTT screwdriver ads “Wanna screw?”
So from what I understand of the "Go F yourself" thing, a lot of it is a context issue... The whole thing stemmed from Media Matters curating and forcing a situation where advertising was placed alongside "unseemly" content, then they and their influenced companies created a massive controversy to intentionally "motivate" other advertisers to pull their content. It's a targeted attack and advertisers who willingly go along with the false controversy are doing so under intentionally mean spirited or bad faith motivations. It's like getting a job in the waterworks department, poisoning the water, then blaming the city. The whole thing was a hit job to attempt to force heavy-handed censorship.
Elon went on to say his reason for that statement was this: "What I care about is the reality of goodness, not the perception of it. And what I see all over the place is people who care about looking good while doing evil. F*** them."
Anyone going along with the hit piece are playing into the dark side of modern media, where all it takes is an accusation of wrongdoing to destroy someone's life. I'm not an Elon/Tesla fanboy by any means, nor do I use Twitter/X, but I do side with him on this.
A free platform carries some risk that ads *might* appear next to unsavory things. There are safeguards that prevent it ~95% of the time, but it *can* happen, especially if you manufacture the whole thing yourself. I'd rather risk occasional slips than to lock people out of free and open discussions.
They have been going on about this since the start of the takeover, even though at that point, it was mostly the old Twitter algo. The BBC interview this year was telling, the reporter accused Musk of what you are saying, when asked for evidence, the guy crumpled like a house made straws.
ALL OF THESE COMPANIES RUN AD CAMPAIGNS on TIKTOK..... where do you think all of the terrorist videos from the first days of the HAMAS attack came from. Extreme Hypocrites.
Thing is, is the written report really the reason advertisers are stopping? from what I know the real reason is that compares to the return on ad investment you get from other social media like Instagram and Facebook, twitter simply doesn't provide enough value to make it worth advertising. It's not like you cant find bigoted content on those other platforms, its just that brands are willing to overlook that for access to a much larger userbase and better targeting. Report or not, I'm willing to bet a ton of these brands would have stopped advertising on twitter anyway simply because by their estimations, its not worth the money. It's not like Facebook and Instagram really have that much better of a reputation, they offer a better "product" in terms of a userbase to advertise to
Underrated comment and Linus' hate-boner for Musk is not helping him report accurately here.
sources on any of this? All i can find is lawsuits from X alleging that media matter forced it but there isn't any actual evidence produced on this so calling it a "hit piece" at the moment is a little much especially since Musk himself have gotten the company in hot water in other areas already. It's not like he isn't prone to screwing up twitter (like firing their compliance officers and wondering why countries are suddenly circling them for non compliance). Just sound like confirmation bias making you side with Musk on this for you.
I've seen so many advertisers advertising alcohol or M/R rated tv shows or movies, who dont want to be advertised on anything with a single "fuck" in it. It makes no sense
Just as the for you twitter algorithm finally got perfect for me, no drama, no politics, just art and the occasional related memes. Took me months of carefully never clicking certain things and aggressively liking other things. I just hope people don't fragment and scatter to too many platforms, especially the ones hostile to art and non-Americans.
Why not consider Mastadon or one of the other Fediverse platforms?
That escalated quickly
Advertisers are not obligated to do so with any company and they do it when they see benefit. At this point no one can see any benefit of doing so and the only reason for this is Elon but he of course is going to blame everyone else.
It's the advertisers that are "worried" about negative support metrics, the viewers do not think about it. And the advertisers are not worried about running ads on controversial topics but about how much positive publicity can be gained from making a big deal about not supporting it. Instead of paying to have an ad run they make a public announcement about how they will not support X, Y, or Z and the press does the advertising for free. Talking about how Disney is pulling ads from Shitter is running a Disney ad for free.
The true controversial do not run ads on stuff is handled quietly behind the scenes by the ad agency.
We have American politicians (Elon new friends) who has said they want corporations investigated for not donating money to their party. So Elon suggesting advertisers should be punished for not giving him money is in perfect alignment with that.
I think it's funny to say "Twitter (formally X)"
Reel out the clips of every time LTT said the same thing to advertisers/sponsors. 😂
If my name was X. Elon finally admits his disdain for us publically
I only learned that advertisers didn't or did the shotgun approach after they started to pull ads from youtube. If you look at website banner ads, they don't always align with the websites interests. I think there's some Streisand in this. Advertisers pulling out of certain content, the Adpocalypse gaining ears of millions of people, set the expectations of people that advertisers endorse the content, instead of content endorsing advertisers. Regardless if shotgun or not, the public knowledge of them selectively advertising, makes every advertisement effectively seem hand picked and placed by knowing about their ability to withdraw it.
I will really miss twitter, it had some absolutely amazing niches with mostly cool people. If you stayed away from the right topics and accounts it could actually be a reasonably positive platform.
But in it‘s current stage I‘d rather watch it burn to the ground and hope something else will come and replace it.
and you think Threads will not turn into X?
@@chinaman1not his point
@@fel524 i didn't say it was his point. I was asking a question.
musk bros flooding the comments already 🤣
You mad
@@amb1u5no they are entertained, just like me. It's very funny to see 😂
@@amb1u5they mad
Stock shorting is where you borrow a stock and immediately sell it with the assumption you will return the stock after buying it back for cheaper and hopefully get most of your money back
i want a bankruptcy judge to tell them that if the company stays under musks ownership there is no chance to restructure it, and should close and liquidate its assets, then musk should pay the employees first before the bank loans.
"are you into white teeth? is that your 'thing'?"
How many times are you guys going to predict The End of twitter?
That island is China. Thank you.
These days highly controversial stuff will always be put next to other brands. UA-cam ads are a perfect example of this happening on a daily basis. For example, two ads play before a video. The first ad could be for a brand of an everyday item e.g. food, clothing etc. However next advert could be advertisements for war missiles, scams or get rich quick schemes.
I have lost count of the times when this has happened to me when on UA-cam. Even if adverts are reported to UA-cam due to how distressing the footage in the adverts is, given a couple of weeks that same advertiser adverts are back being shown. E.g. the war missiles advertiser I mentioned above was showing footage of how much damage their weapons did for a currently happening war in the world, which you could help fund. Lost count of the times I reported the advertiser and lost count of the different adverts I was shown by the same advertiser over a long period of time.
Hence if advertisers want to promote their brand, unless they control the platform themselves, they need to come to terms with the fact their ads will be put next to controversial stuff like the examples above.
Agreed. I feel like the standard middle-man model of online advertising, where some third party (Google) sits between the advertisers and the content providers they're displayed on makes that kind of thing inevitable. It prevents the content provider and advertisers from being seen directly working with each other and thereby implicitly endorsing each other, as might've been the case in classical mediums like TV, radio, newspapers, etc.
I actually feel that, when online, the opposite situation (where a NSFW ad is shown alongside SFW content) is typically received much worse than the other way around.
Formosa. The name you're looking for, Linus, is Formosa.
The problem is Elon fanboys already hate on Disney for being woke and whatever. Once you've been crapped on you've been crapped on.
wow the bias here is insane.
ikr but crying when the adpocolypse happened. Blinded by Ideological echo chambers.
Elon seems to love the free market.
But just as the free market gives, the free market takes.
This is the game.
Each day we get closer to Elon making good on his promise to “buy twitter, and then delete it” can’t wait 😂
Just like Trump's 'Drain the swamp' comment. Sure they were full of shit when they said those things, but it's looking more and more like they're going to accidentally make good on those statements, just not in the way they meant!
advertisers pulling out is generally to do with their ESG score
Apparently not buying a product is blackmail now? I beleive this falls into the F around and find out category.
except he was antisemtic, he painted himself by doing that and pushing those right wing conspiracy theories@@alr2157
@@alr2157 No it's not, lmao. It's called free market capitalism, baby. I thought you Musk lovers used to like free market capitalism? Would you prefer a world where advertisers are mandated to advertise on a terrible platform no one likes anymore named X?
These Musk lovers used to love free market capitalism. Now all the sudden the free market is blackmail. lol Who knew that advertisers are obligated to put ads on racist hubs?!
@alr2157 I'm sorry but I don't think you know what blackmail means. Though to be fair, neither does he.
@@CodexF0X look it up.
"...Blackmail is an act of coercion using the threat of revealing or publicizing either substantially true or false information about a person or people unless certain demands are met. It is often damaging information" Note the word FALSE.
And then try understand what this means:
putting pressure on someone to abide, and if it doesn't work, to try to paint him as anti-semitic?
Thats blackmail.
I agree with linus. Company's are very much guilty by association. Look at the companies still running in Russia, they continuously get boycotted and news articles keep roasting them.
Saying the ADL shouldn't be hypocrites, when talking about power and privilege, is really so antisemitic.. In clown world.
Dude, I should totally start an online dental hygiene store and start doing affiliate marketing with the top orators on the orange youtube
as long as Musk wants it, he has the funds forever
Anyone else think this was a video about Wayland based on the title?
I did lmao. Was hoping for some more news RE: wayland
I think what is being missed by many in this debate is that while Disney may have pulled their advertising, they have not shut down their own Twitter / X accounts. Maybe if they'd done the latter it would be more meaningful. Perhaps that is what Elon was so eloquently trying to explain...
He could just not actively promote white nationalist posts and anti semitic shit... Thats another option...
He wasn't eloquent at all BTW.
@@kelmanl4 Evidence of this? I've never seen one of these promoted posts before.
In a world where everything is taken out of context, I would love to see the actual post not just a regurgitated talking point. @@kelmanl4
...Wouldn't that make more sense if he was talking after they had taken action by shutting down their twitters?
@@C0mmentC0p Think this is in reference to reposting pizzagate consipiracies and shit like that. Which, ya know, is what precipitated all this to begin with.
Wtf is with these comments? Musk fanboys out in force.
It's not being a fanboy, it's supporting the cause he fights for. Free speech.
@@alr2157Clearly don't understand what "free speech" actually is.
And if you're a free speech absolutist, how does an advertiser choosing not to advertise on a platform mean an attack on free speech. They're just exercising their free speech choice.
@@TehCheese you guys clearly are delusional. none of these companies actually care about the content and the boycott isn't organic. these people want to pressure Musk to get back the control they lost.
you got Hamas propaganda on tiktok, childporn on instagram and way worse stuff on all the other platforms. this is clearly political and ideological
your reply just shows how little you know about the situation. Broaden your sources a little. Maybe less ideologically driven content.. @@TehCheese
@@Rem_NL The projection is real.
its almost like advertisers and public companies are soul less husks that are controlled by blackrock through stock buy outs and esg ratings
19:11 He means furries, btw.
10:48 d brand should ABSOLUTELY do this.
Buy me a pepsi, I'll buy you one next week.
If pepsis are cheaper next week, you made a profit.
That's how shorting stocks works.
I actually like Elon for saying this. There is no pointy is having f*ck you money, if you don't say f*ck you.
No its not much about fuck you money. It is a common smear tactic he is saying fuck you to. You guys already forgot the Adpocolypse?
@@Rem_NL agreed
Did no one in the comment section read the twitter files?
@@alr2157 its funny how the viewer base is a reflection of the creator. they never were that political but in the last few months their left wing bias came through.
but its weird that they are that uninformed on this topic.
@@muffinb5446 people on the left are usually uninformed on things
linus is elbow deep in his own echo chamber.. Yet he cried just as hard during the Adpocolypse.. This is your brain on politics.. @@alr2157
@@muffinb5446it's amazing how their hatred of Trump, Oops I meant Elon, lined up perfectly with what the media told them to think.
It's very interesting that he somehow feels entitled to advertiser money, but then complains about blackmail...I mean lol.
4:30 I bet he's talking about Twomad if he's up to speed with his latest scandel.
Short answer: yes.
It's lasted this long, that's not gonna change 😂
Same old story. These rich a-holes are big believers in the invisible hand of the market until it swats them. Then they cry louder than anyone.
this is pure speculation but while youtube collects our data for the sake of "targeting ads" amd probably offers advertisers to advertise for specific demographics but the advertisers don't care and just buy adspace to show their ads for EVERYONE even people who this product is entirely irrelevant like idk showing tampon ads to male viewers or speakers to a deaf person.
so one is definitely is messing up because i have not seen a change in the ads i see after asking several sites to not show me targeted ads.
Its pointless discussing this subject without looking at the reasons why musk did what he did.
He refused to limit the free speech on X, then certain companies threatened to withdraw revenue unless he gave in to their demands.
I dont like elon musk but in this case i think he had the moral high ground.
Linus always skirts around discussing awkward subjects, he avoids making any statements that could cause him trouble or getting cancelled. I understand why he does this but i do believe he shouldnt cover these types of subjects if he will not cover it fully or state an opinion or report the full facts.
This was a very disengenuous and weak vid.
THANK YOU.
I think Linus, Luke and much of LTT deserve a lot more criticism for how badly they handle politics.
Narcissist who got rammed for how he runs his company shakes fist at other companies.
Elon not being able to accept responsibility, yet again.
I don’t care tweeter die or not, I just hate ads, the America runs on ads need to stop
I cant believe you missed the obvious that people are upset about. Its not about choosing to advertise elsewhere, but the coordinated effort to pull advertising...
It's only coordinated because
A. Elon is one of the most public figures on the planet and he's referencing or endorsing incredibly dangerous conspiracy theories
B. Most major corporations work with the Big 3 Ad Agencies (WPP, Omnicom, and Publicis Groupe) and know about spending habits of other businesses.
It's more concidental than coordinated as Musk has shown support of the idea that that there is an active Jewish plot to destroy the West. Why the hell would any rational person want to be associated with it? In addition, they clearly want to come back but every time they do, Musk does another stupid action. Plus, ad revenues have been sliding down for Twitter since Musk took over, even prior to his outbursts.
I think brands are scared more of negative press and click-baity headlines - an advert of theirs appears ambiguously in front of a racist Tweet, it's easy to make a headline that makes an argument they're supporting that content.
Sorry putting naked people that weren't artistically drawn/painted on your walls is degenerate behavior.
Honestly, I'm shocked the company itself haven't implemented a gag order on Elon because so much of what's going on at Twitter is entirely self-inflicted especially by Elon. He tried to change it to a new name that hasn't really stuck because people still refer to it as formerly known as twitter. He tried to make the checkmark system profitable without understanding the whole reason why it existed in the first place (then brought back legacy checkmarks because parody accounts jumped on that bandwagon so hard then ended up having to actually verifying accounts anyway). Keep hanging out with racists and anti semites while regularly posting unhinged takes himself. Actively attack advertisers and act confuse why they don't want to give him money. I can keep going but it all could have been easily avoided if Musk would stop and think for 2 seconds.
Yea
When is threads going to add search?
it's had it for a while
Advertisers seem to have the most delicate of feelings and are becoming more fragile as time goes on. Adblock for the WIN!
*_They literally have money at stake acting this way through ESG policies that offer tax incentives. It’s what could be described as “fascist”._*
Advertisers want to make the most money so they must accommodate all types or consumers. Filtering consumers that aren't sensitive = losing potential money.
*_bold italic_*
@traplover6357 your talking about a company trying to reach a loud yet small percentage of people, In the past a company had a responsibility to shareholders to generate the maximum amount of profits while staying within the law, ESG was implemented so they could legally skirt around their obligation to shareholders while pushing progressive ideals which allowed them to secure finance with black Rock and vanguard depending on their ESG score. Back when bud light decided to grab that small minority of people pushing their agenda they lost most of their customer base with nothing to fill the void, not even that small minority. Disney recently had a shareholder meeting talking about how the interest they are trying to push do not align with what the overall market wants and that being the sole reason they are running at a loss in profits.
I'm pretty sure racism has never been cool with advertisers. But whatever you need to tell yourself Elmo Bro
I know you guys have the forums, but a LTT Mastodon server would be fun.
I don’t blame Twitter's downfall on the advertisers; I blame it on Elon Musk
Twitter was already loosing millions when he bought it.
It was used as a tool by the government to censor people.
Cancel culture and the woke virus were all over the place.
Elon came and fired all the woke agents and reduced the money bleed, but his free speech plan is not accepted by the system.
The system wants to control speech so it controls the people.
Assange, Snowden warned us again and again.
Are you that blind and deaf?
It's 100% the advertisers fault though. If you value hate speech laws more than freedom of speech and by extention freedom of information you can move to some dystopia police state.
private corporations have a right to stop advertising on any platform the choose.
@@mike4402You make Twitter somehow sound important. It is not.
@@mike4402 Not spending money on racists is free speech too.
I really think this comes down to the advertisers being perfectly fine advertising on it when it censored people for opinions but did nothing about reported CSA content, but are now pulling out due to misaligned views when the platform does the opposite.
People see these advertisers as antithetical to the morals they hold (and it some cases, justifiably) and will blame them when the very obviously financially unviable platform takes an early grave.
This isn't "misaligned views" expressed on the platform. Why are you trying to be coy? This is the owner of the platform openly endorsing blatantly anti-Semitic conspiracy content. This isn't some grey area or a question about freeze peaches. Advertisers are not required to fund white supremacy movements, despite what Apartheid Musk would like.
Twitter still censors (bans) people for their opinions, and crime is rampant, it's just endorsed by Musk now.
What site have you been looking at?
4:17 def referencing TwoMad here lol
Why aren’t you going to repeat the tweet Linus?
So when are you making "floatbird"?
This didn’t age well lol. X is doing fine
What was Musk’s tweet? Why isn’t Linus reading it?
It was about the great reset iirc
I think it's a matter of seeing your logo in a viral controversial news article even if there's no association.
Like seeing a photo of a burning car with a gas station logo in the background. Someone just scrolling by might make quick assumptions without the full context.
I think that's the sort of association they are attempting to wash off. The corporations probably wouldn't care if the news wasn't so viral.
i got miles and miles of political garbage shoved in my face random celeb shit and sports and yes i blocked that already in options and it still keep popping up
so yes the for you tab is absolutely unuseable at least for me
Linus acting like there isn't a global culture war raging with free speech being a central issue in it.
Elon has banned people and speech that he disagrees with, it isn’t real free speech lol
Yep and all these companies are going along it together to squash anyone that goes against their corporate interests.
They are just X/Elon haters. Instead of supporting Elon on his fight to protect free speech, they seem to be eager to see X fail.
Yeah, Elon has banned certain speech.
@@Napo5000asking sincerely what speech he has banned? I have seen him ban when people actively say to hurt someone.
These advertisers also will stop advertising on twitter and then go around to press core about how they stopped because the craziest reasons. if MSI stoped advertising with you and then spent billions and advertising elseware about how they stopped advertising with you because of the most petty things... you can see why im sure he is tired of dealing with the sleeziest companies.
I think you've completely missed the point...and reason.
its weird when people think advertisers owe you something, as if they have a duty to fund your hate platform and its their fault when it fails not the ... richest person in the world who owns it and cant keep his mouth shut
It not about ESG driven advertisers owing something. It's them demanding do as we say, or else. And Elon doing that stupid retweet actually was not how the thing started (doctored Media Matters report), it's just a cherry on top. And IMHO GFY from Elon was quite deserved. Large advertisers overstepping their boundaries (advertising their products) is overwhelming these days and UA-cam Adpocalipse that happened a few years ago is a great example of that. The difference it that UA-cam caved in, Elon on other hand said GFY.
*_Do you really want advertisers controlling the narrative of your life??? Grow a pair and stick up for yourself and the people around you, instead of sticking up for the people actively making your life more difficult._*
@@alr2157 No they did it because they don't want to be associated with that, yeah he has free speech, but freedom of speech comes with consequences, free speech in the United States is not 100%, ever, and it's foolish to think so.
@@alr2157so corporations should be forced to advertise on Twitter? They can't pull out because it's their free speech?
@@alr2157so corporations should be forced to advertise on Twitter? They can't pull out because it's their free speech?
I like cookies.
By the way, be careful what videos you click on with musk or any of his products in the thumbnail. Your algorithm might get messed up completely.
Was his tweet that bad ?
Elon’s biggest mistake was assuming that people used twitter. Most of my friends 20-30 only post on twitter every couple of months.
Twitter is a megaphone for the elite but is not regular used by normal people.
not only the elite, but artists in general too
The amount of elon musk simps that were trying to spin this into a "Elon Based' argument was absolutely INSANE over the weekend. Glad that Linus is talking about how insane Elon is.
nice NPC take
So saying the ADL shouldn't push the hate they reject against themselves, is insane.
I think you're insane.
@@SlyNine Bro, no company should be forced to sponsor companies they don't agree with. That's not how capitalism works.
People think elon is trying to backup twitter are funny, hes actively destroying the company for the meme
X/Twitter has never been better when now