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Masterworks is pretty sketchy, aren't they? Weren't they one of the first sponsor companies to get "looked at"? EDIT: I'm seeing a lot of videos about "reconsidering business" with Masterworks. Why did you choose this sponsor?
@VictoriousGardenosaurus It's a matter of promoting a sketchy service that'll probably fleece the masses. It isn't about capitalism. You aware of ethics?
@@HardPourCorn People are allowed to invest into whichever venture they may find profitable. Caveat emptor I don't find art to be a good investment. Doesn't mean I'm right. Doesn't mean they are crooks.
It's,still the only platform with freedom of speech. Reddit is heavily censored and curated as a progressive echo chamber. UA-cam comments are moderated by algorithm and filtered. Use a second to check if you can see the comments you've posted. If they continue certain sentiments or terms they will be caught by the algorithm and deleted.
Good luck finding any other platform where there us some freedom of speech and you can post conservative sentiment without it bring deleted and your account banned.
A lot of people thought I was joking when I said how Twitter was my favourite social media. I loved seeing unfiltered thoughts from anyone ranging from celebrities to people with 10 followers. It almost felt like an equaliser. Now it feels like no matter who’s on my homepage, it’s just tweets saying “What do you think about (insert popular topic here)?” with people arguing against each other in the comments or fake engagement to inflate the tweet. And they get paid for it. I really hate it, it’s not even a case of the toxicity anymore, it’s just nothing feels genuine anymore. Anything said is for the sake of impressions.
I'm a very social person -- I love talking with people, starting conversations, weighing in my opinion... but lately I've really grown sour to social media on the whole. It's all just people who don't give a rats ass what anyone thinks, just pretending they do for the free clout. People think I'm crazy for missing the 'forum era' since forums were so often so toxic, but there was also a more sincerity to them. They were only really monetized on the macro level so almost any discussion thread, was actually wanting to see what others thought and talk it out.
@@amelialonelyfart8848 Oh hell no you not crazy for missing the forum era. I remember being able to actually see familiar faces in a forum after a while and you could build up a reputation of sorts. Now everyone is living in their fleeting five seconds of fame, and chasing that high by trying to be controversial once it’s gone. It’s tough, especially as it’s harder and harder to meet new people these days, yet if you go online it’s so easy to get caught up in these hostile environments instead of being able to actually have a discussion ): Hopefully it’s not like this forever, or god forbid it even gets worse somehow… honestly it’s refreshing to even see a reply comment that’s over 10 words and actually gives me the sense that other real people use the internet.
It wasn't tho right? I mean they had whole censoring departments. Banning scientists, politicians and any regular person not agreeing to the censorship departments views. I've never used Twitter, but that sounds more dystopian than advertising scams.
The AI era of bots is going to wreck havoc on any social media platform that allows monetization. Twitters fast virality nature is just exceptionally vulnerable.
Amen to that. Also I have been deleted in stream chats and comments on YT for referring to this very subject as have dozens of people I know well, who also have any videos on this subject removed for TOS violations and for talking about the explosion of both topic-spamming bot accounts on YT chats and fully automated clip-video spamming content channels on YT who use fake bot accounts to swell their engagement stats. But somehow it can be heard if you feature-advertise AI run scam companies on large commercialised channels.
Technically that's what shares are for companies which are also a scam that has managed to capture the whole financial system an leverage managed retirement funds etc to centralize the world into pretty much a few major investment companies
as a past advertiser I can tell you this, if the ROI doesnt match the $$$ put in, I will put my ad dollars elsewhere, this in theory at least SHOULD be a self balancing system
That's what i thought. But then i also realized a lot of the "investors" in these companies are nothing like us, the consumers. All they want is to fakely increase their value and sell it off before everyone realizes its a sham.
normal ad money doesn't concern elon any more, he is playing on higher, geopolitical level, remember he accepted "help" from russian money to seal the twi deal don't have to pay taxes on that revenue stream also, so its a win-win for him, and he is first and fore most a business man, zero ethics
That is the price you pay for freedom of speech. What is the alternatiewe? Reddit? Even youtube comments are moderated by AI to delete anything conservative
No that's clearly false, the ragebait out strips the porn, of course as someone recently pointed out to me ragebait really is just porn when you get down to it
I've been on Twitter/X since 2010. The algorithm has me down cold by this time as my experience for many years has been about 40% engaging tweets, 40% rage bait, 15% spam, and 5% soft/hard porn. If you engage with the platform long enough, you will get interesting contentent on the regular. If you are a noob who does not engage/post on the site you will get what all noobs get.
@@Always.Smarter Tbf, you don't even need to have followers. Everytime I go on certain hashtags on twitter I have to report and block hundreds of Indian, Arabian and IPTV bots just to see normal posts. Luckily I don't use twitter that much but it is tedious.
You know, there was a post on Tumblr years ago joking about how, in the future, Tumblr would become the highest quality social media platform, not because it was actually good but because every other platform became progressively worse in comparison. Recently that post has been reblogged with a picture of the statue of Apollo, in which the statue has glowing red eyes while holding a dodgeball labeled "the gift of prophecy." I continue to find the fulfilled prophetic irony endlessly funny.
i'm starting to wonder what have i been doing with my life if people younger than me can come up with these types of "money making techniques" while i'm doing essentially nothing
Same. The initial cleanup was arduous but I am proud of what my home page looks like now. Just art and video game related stuff. People think Twitter is some actively malicious thing trying to make you engage with horrible stuff but, in fact, it's all just one big algorithm. You only see more of what you have already interacted with. Make a conscious effort to tell the algorithm what you DON'T want to see and it will easily bend down to your whim.
Man, I feel the need to be honest, so I wouldnt do it, but as someone from a developing country with a favorable exchange rate, I understand why people do it. It is very tempting. Like I cannot stress how beneficial to LIVE here while earning in dollars.
I had a friend in Cartagena who had a click farm and when I was waking up every morning to go teach at some crappy school I would reconsider my life choices
I love it, gonna start using it. The joke that is, not Shitter. My brothers favourite joke for last 2 decades was: "UA-cam, Twitter and Facebook are going to amalgamate, the new platform will be called YouTwitFace."
@@ephraimwinslow basically there being 8+ billion on earth is a lie. don't bother googling it tho, google thinks that is about early humans somehow copulating with ghosts. when its about a population size just being inferred and not confirmed.
@@ephraimwinslow it’s the idea that a large portion of the worlds population only exist on paper. Countries are incentivized to exaggerate their population numbers to get funding from their own and other governments.
Growing up in the 80s and having consumed a a steady diet of cyberpunk content I was kind of expecting the world to be a dystopian post nuclear hellscape dominated by amoral global corporations...looks like we're right on track 👍
I still think it’s hilarious that “X” and still referred to as Twitter and might be refreshed like that forever since they did a frankly terrible rebranding
It's the dumbest rebranding in history. "Let's replace this naming that everybody already knows about with a single letter that is completely useless for uniqueness, searching or basic f***ing connotation."
He's been trying to call a company "X" for over 20 years. fElon & his brother started an internet company. Later merged with a competitor, fElon wants to name it "X .com", eventually they fire him for incompetence. Later that company becomes PayPal, fElon cashes in his shares for over $100million. He invests in Tesla, forces the inventors out, pretends he invented it, and the scams keep coming. Thunderf00t & Common Sense Skeptic have great YT channels that cover a lot of it.
@@arctic.wizard if you search the code for an "x" you might find yourself with and infinite number of results. Harder than looking up "tweeter", harder to make something out of the code.... unless you wanna spend good money and time to find out.
Great dive into engagement farms bots (guess that's a white lie on Elon's part). But for anyone curious about Masterwork, it's a dubious sponsor. Plain bagel has a good video on them but it can boil down to two things: art returns are high but not guaranteed and people invest in art not necessarily because it's an investment but because they like it.
I have a full video investigating their company/business model with interviews at an executive level where they disclosed internal financials to me. My personal stance is that I stand by them as a valid and worthwhile sponsor of the channel. Everyone should make up their own minds, but that's where i'm coming from.
@@CODM-dd9um Why don't you give him money out of your own wallet and stop bitching about him taking sponsorships. If you don't like his content don't click on it or better yet have something better than snide comments and have an actual complaint. However I think this is only a bot account that is trying to defend other bot accounts.
Or, viewers can continue to voice their issues with the sponsor, so that the creator can have some feedback, other than white knights and boot lickers? I hate the entire "just getting paid" when I've already specifically paid extra to not be ahown ads. There are other ways to get paid than selling my attention to third parties.
@@CatFish107 You do realize that most businesses don't really care what people say about them until it hits them in the wallet. If you don't support the business don't make the purchase, however doing in depth research of your own should be the first thing you do so you really know what you are opposing, I would even say that to someone who was thinking about using a service like that. Step out of the echo chamber and you might actually learn something.
Criticizing twitter for being filled with fraud while promoting art NFT "scam" company number 5 that uses non-financially regulated shell companies for each art piece. Nice going
@@UpperEchelonTo be more clear on my part, one of the main original visions for NFT's included digitizing shares of existing (real) art (or concert tickets etc.) on a trustless system. This was before the current era of dink doinks & monkey Jpegs. They are both largely unregulated, heavy on speculation and reliant on FOMO to propagate. They are also both at risk of undefined value. Fine art = Artificial Scarcity + Subjective Valuations (since they don't sell art all too often). NFT = Wash trading + FOMO + Every other bad thing you can imagine. Masterworks is the "classical" vision of NFT's with extra steps. The only advantage that Masterworks has is insurance and some legitimacy (which would be inherent for a trustless system anyway). In my opinion any scheme involving FOMO as a marketing ploy (eg. requesting an invitation for Masterworks/jump the line with my invite code) is a huge red flag and people should stay away from it. I'm not sure if you remember, but their ads ramped up during periods of financial turmoil and were angled it such a way to help the desperate folk get out of the hole they are in. You've quite rightly stood against predatory marketing for the years I've watched you, I don't know why you have such a blindspot for these guys.
@@UpperEchelonMy original comment was censored by YT, here is the abridged version: To be more clear on my part, one of the main original visions for NFT's included digitizing shares of existing (real) art (or concert tickets etc.) on a trustless system. This was before the era of monkey jpegs. They are both largely unregulated, subjective in value, and rely on FOMO to propagate. Masterworks only has the advantage of insurance, otherwise they are just the "classical" vision of NTF's with extra steps. The company itself uses well-documented predatory marketing practices (adverts using the get-rich-quick handbook) and should be avoided at all costs by anyone not well informed in the fine arts market.
I see the original comment actually, thank you for posting it. One thing I would add is that I directly called out the company to the CEO himself for adopting certain marketing techniques a while ago, (I was rather harsh...) and I observed them change as a direct result of my words. (This was when I did a deep dive on them as they got heftily criticized). That doesn't necessarily mean everyone will have that same context (or even care) but hopefully its another thing that explains my willingness to work with them as a sponsor.
The amount of porn bots I see on the website is astonishing, you wouldn't believe how they'll always end up on the most random tweets imaginable, they're even replying to 9/11 related tweets.
Tbf it doesn’t bother me that Twitter is going down in flames. The issue I had with Twitter is that it was a progressive echo chamber and had an outsized influence on public discourse.
@@antondovydaitis2261 won't happen as high payed CEOs is a racket not a meritocratic job in most cases. Often CEOs that destroy companies quickly get a new job as CEO. If it was meritocratic maybe I'd see that happening.
@@randomaccount53793You are being used by Google to teach AI how to "moderate" comments. At the same time, that same AI is trying to teach you how to "moderate" yourself.
I've felt so much better since I left twitter. I was mainly on there for F1 content, but my god, F1 twitter got so damn toxic they were creating conspiracy theories over a T shirt. A T SHIRT! And it's the same story with other fandoms and groups too.
At least there is freedom of speech. A price to pay for that is that you will see weird shit, but on reddit any conservative sentiment is removed and uiu are banned.
I would ask that you go watch the dedicated video I did about masterworks a while ago with interviews of their executives, where I was given access to internal financials. Its fine to have your own opinion, but after dozens of hours of work looking at them as a company, I have determined I am comfortable accepting them as a sponsor. A great deal of the accusations against them were hyperbolic and inaccurate. (much like what happened with Established Titles)
Elon has succeeded in making Twitter (X) the Cybertruck of the Internet. Congratulations, Elon. We will always remember the Cybertruck, and laugh at everyone who has one.
Only made one at the height of the GPU shortage to get notifications from stock watchers ASAP. Worked, got one for retail price when they were going for double at the time.
It seems like it would be even easier if this was taken a step further. You could use AI to create realistic looking accounts, a VPN to spread out where they are all logging in from, and that would make it all but impossible to detect bots.
Bots are obvious and easy to detect pretty much no matter which steps they take to hide the fact they are bots. I mean they're bots - they are not smart, even if they do happen to run the latest version of ChatGPT and that becomes obvious if you read through enough of their posts or try have a conversation with one. The problem is there is no good automated way to detect bots and ban them on mass without human intervention, and it's much easier to create a bot for twitter than it is for twitter to find that bot and ban it. Doesn't help that Musk gutted the staff, meaning there are less people to try and get rid of these bots in the first place.
That's how it is yeah If the accounts aren't stolen/bought then they're generated And their descriptions, pictures and activity are generated using AI (or scraped from websites)
Honestly, I was registered there to follow some 2d artists, but since clown musk's buyout I saw how 95% art in the feed turned into 15% crypto and 85% art, then 30% nft+crypto and 70% art, then 50% crypto+nft+propaganda, then 60% crypto, propaganda and rage baits. So I just deleted my account and didn't have regrets Artists can be followed elsewhere, and engagement farm content and intellectually insulting ads are offensive to my eyes and I didn't sign up for such a visual abuse
It's making fElon / X-Twit money. It's us, the consumers paying for this. Fake engagement increases "engagement numbers" exponentially. This attracts advertisers, and forces them to pay more, even though the percentage of actual people seeing their commercials decreases. This inturn forces them to charge more for their products, as the Cost per real pair of eyeballs seeing ads increases. Subscribing, liking, commenting, following, re-X'ing? All seem free, they aren't, it's just indirect. If you're wondering why everything is getting so expensive, this is part of the problem.
This is why a digital ID will never work,not that i have any desire to ever working.We know it’s digital enslavement just like a digitized dollar.Fiat currency is also enslavement but making it only more vulnerable as in hackability is a losing battle.
So X monetizes views from unverified accounts? And those views pay out enough to be worth the effort? That is kinda weird. I spent most of the video wondering how having a botnet of paid X accounts could possibly be profitable, but toward the end I gathered that you only verify the monetized accounts and the rest are unverified. But quite honestly, I think it's insane that anybody advertises on any social media platform. How could there possibly be that much ROI in it? Do people actually click on ads that much? I've bought *maybe* three items via ad click throughs in my life.
they present extremely misleading information. they promote gains of artwork that never had anyone own it through their platform. Literally just showing the top 10 most highly appreciated pieces of artwork ever in their marketing material. It would be like if I started a stock trading service and said "Look at the gains of these top 10 penny stocks for reference on what you could make!" only I never touched those penny stocks nor had anything to do with them.
The business itself isn't a scam, but the advertising is misleading for sure. It is common in these type of "investments" like collectables. The only one making money are the flippers. Investing in these schemes you probably gonna lose from all the administrative and transaction costs.
Seems pretty fair to use AI to take some of the advertising money produced from our endless stream of non-consensual data. My only issue is that they need to be focusing more on Facebook/meta and make it easier for me to do it with a couple of clicks.
I won't touch that platform. I left it as soon as Elon got his stinky, grubby hands on it, and I have no regrets. I touch tooooo much grass to even consider lending my time to that cesspool
Do the people who "purchase" the adspace eventually figure it out that any consequential followers are bots or fake accounts or no traffic actually comes in? Like if i spent $20 on this and then nobody, not even one real person came from it, i wouldnt use that service again.
I would like this see one for Facebook which is starting to have this engagement farming with AI art as well! It’s funny but Instagram the actual photo platform doesn’t have this problem at all even though they tried to follow it as well!
For real now, you can't go around and make this videos just to turn around and showcase masterworks which Is a renowned scam, shared ownership is a broken model riddled with fees, yearly expenses, no control over resale and price of resale, commission fees and house fees. It's literally burning money while allowing a private company to grow on the back of unknowingly customers. Do better.
Ok might sound wierd.... but This Is A Good Thing(tm) Tanking the advertising revenue model on the internet is key to killing the bot traffic in and of itself. This may literally be a self rectifying problem. Not that we cant hasten the process by writing bots that actively engage with advertising, clicking on and viewing as many ads as possible: tank the clickthrough rates and the referral to sales rations enough and the internet stops being financially viable as an advertising medium.
I don't think it's that simple If the internet stops being financially viable for advertising Website hosts will be forced to foot their server costs with other methods We lose the free, advert riddled internet, in exchange for paid subscription based net Twitter blue and engagement boosts are a sign of things to come MTX internet
@@SnipyShino They arent using advertising to "foot their server costs." They are using the "advertising as profit" model. Those costs have been almost zero for a very long time. I can remember when traffic cost $1/Mb (yes, megabyte) back in the 90's. By 2001 they were negligible. Weve already been through several iterations of "banner farms" and the like, the result is always to make that profit model obsolete; basic adblockers did that to banner farms; those adserver companies that allowed banner farms went broke. Google is basically the only survivor from that era, and that is because their crawlers actually police a policy that prevents banner farming. We went through the annoying as funk popup/popunder era, with the same results: make it unprofitable and it goes away. Those advertising companies that used pop-unders are long gone. And yes, in those days people did farm their own sites with IP spoofing bots just for the ad revenue. OTOH I know of hundreds of websites that have been around, selling their products or providing their service, without plastering their site with advertising for more than 15 years, some of them for more than 20. Now we can start clearing the ccer from social media.
Upper Echelon 7+ years ago my tweeter account was re-tweeting this Russian propaganda without me having done anything and having all my settings to private. The account was not hacked but still it happened. It took me 1year to notice due to the fact that I didn't use tweeter for a while. Magic
Thanks! Do you think this is part of why there are also so many bots on UA-cam? The scam bots trying to get people to click links, look up certain stuff, etc. are obvious, but I have wondered what the bots leaving comments that don’t promote stuff get out of it. I feel kind of stupid now because of course someone would build a network of bot accounts to watch and interact with videos so the channel owner gets more ad money.
That cesspit was burn or buy. We can do buy, then burn. If it can't be managed towards genuine human use and benefit, then it will be removed... _Same as the rest._ So determines the Fulcrum of Continuity
This is why I use a firefox PWA version of Twitter for my phone. It allows me to use the twitter control panel which means I can block all twitter blue accounts. It's clear scams will never be taken care of on twitter and I'm just glad I get to ignore all of the trash that'll keep growing
Do you think this wouldn't be a problem if elon didn't buy the company? I am curious how people like you can hate a man so much for little reason. My own answer would be that it will still happen but to a lesser degree, but not because musk is incompetent but because there are too many people who love to watch him fail. I've even seen people commenting about disrupting tesla ai driver learning process because just to spite him when it could have been the answer to the car accident problem thereby saving future generation from crash accident. I am sure that X (twitter) would still be 💩 regardless of who own it, but having the chance to spite him make it more tempting for people to make it worst experience.
I think one of the problems is all of this is dependent on "what side of Twitter/X" you are on. This seems to be a problem only if you follow the mainstream media, celebrities, and other normie accounts.
i have always enjoy your content Echelon but what is my take away here? Call to action? While i enjoy diving deep into stuff that might make some people hair turn white, I'm not really sure how to address this issue or other issues you might bring up? Anymore i feel like i am trapped in this not sure what to call it. Where i feel like i have to research something so much and so deep that i can then decided if they are F me over. For instance Foods that are not GMO, i want to use A.I. to help with the process but the more i look into that it seems it being programed by people who have a agenda that not good? Still keep up the work you make good content.
On what objective, hard proofed data, did you establish your claim that the number of bots on Twitter increased during Elon's time? What was the estimated number of inauthentic or monetized bots before he took over, and what is the current estimated number? You suggested that during his time the number of bots increased, but you don't show any proof to that claim. Elon perhaps even lowered the bots' number as far as we can tell (or know, since the more precise number is probably a well-kept secret in Twitter).
Can't and do not want to confirm this but artists have started telling other artists to stop using the nsfw hashtag because the "kitty" in bio bots have started responding to that tag with fucking cp. I fucking hate that hell-site.
I frequently get so many goddamn sexbot likes that occur frequently and follow which occur less, which I hate because I don’t want likes backed by stupid npcs that want to promote their worthless sex scam services, in addition to them holding shadow-banning capabilities. This is all crap that didn’t happen before Elon took control of this platform.
Seriously, how hard can it be to figure out that someone who's clicking on thousands of tweets per hour for hours on end is a bot, not a human? ...if you're actually interested in finding out, that is.
For Real AUstralian Dollar MONEY = Fraud money As an Australian, I agree with the thumbnail, our economy is fucked but don’t understand the relevance of that X thing
I think instead of keep calling it Twitter, we should not call it X instead, but always "The website formally known as Twitter". I think that would annoy the shit out of Elon, which would be a great outcome
the solution to all of this is to unplug from these platforms... it's the internet, all of it. The word 'trust' is going to be very rare in the future.
About the "AI reducing costs", that's an absolute lie. A prime example for me has been two days ago. Adobe marketplace was asking 65€ for a single JPEG of a non-seamless, AI generated texture. On artstation, I could find related, hand made, ready for use, made by a professionist asset package for 6€. Considering I've been told ad-nauseum about this supposed "bright future" with AI making everything fast, cheap and easy, I am laughing at them for asking 10 times more what a professionist of the job asks, for a massively inferior product none the less.
I believe the minute you add "money" to a community service... that's the minute quality depreciates. Look at Crypto and NFTs... live service games... money is seldom the solution, bro!
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Masterworks is pretty sketchy, aren't they? Weren't they one of the first sponsor companies to get "looked at"?
EDIT: I'm seeing a lot of videos about "reconsidering business" with Masterworks. Why did you choose this sponsor?
Nah
@@HardPourCornInternet people make money from internet ventures. What a wild concept in our capitalist system.
@VictoriousGardenosaurus It's a matter of promoting a sketchy service that'll probably fleece the masses. It isn't about capitalism. You aware of ethics?
@@HardPourCorn People are allowed to invest into whichever venture they may find profitable.
Caveat emptor
I don't find art to be a good investment. Doesn't mean I'm right. Doesn't mean they are crooks.
Question everything, including the sponser of this video.
Yup.
UA-cam ads are on par with Twitter level of scammy.
@@chadm4976 the final test. He took their money, now you take the ad and don't pay back.
Masterworks? WTF
comical
I guess taking money for a sponsorship is another way to take money away from scams.
@@2024OUSE bruh
Don't look behind the curtain. 🔍👀
You don't use sponsor block?
It's called 'X' because it reminds you what browser icon to click.
good one!
It's,still the only platform with freedom of speech. Reddit is heavily censored and curated as a progressive echo chamber. UA-cam comments are moderated by algorithm and filtered. Use a second to check if you can see the comments you've posted. If they continue certain sentiments or terms they will be caught by the algorithm and deleted.
Good luck finding any other platform where there us some freedom of speech and you can post conservative sentiment without it bring deleted and your account banned.
So...the "premium" button?
If it took you this long to get off Twitter it's best you stay there and not ruin the rest of the internet.
Thanks for describing the video, all us fans who drive cars, do housework, play games or are blind really appreciate it
I second this, I'm at work
I hope you don't do all those things at the same time.
Fr im too dislexic to read all this stuff
@@wobblyboostyou aren't living if you haven't given the combo a go
Listen to him while I garden, full agree
A lot of people thought I was joking when I said how Twitter was my favourite social media. I loved seeing unfiltered thoughts from anyone ranging from celebrities to people with 10 followers. It almost felt like an equaliser.
Now it feels like no matter who’s on my homepage, it’s just tweets saying “What do you think about (insert popular topic here)?” with people arguing against each other in the comments or fake engagement to inflate the tweet. And they get paid for it.
I really hate it, it’s not even a case of the toxicity anymore, it’s just nothing feels genuine anymore. Anything said is for the sake of impressions.
I'm a very social person -- I love talking with people, starting conversations, weighing in my opinion... but lately I've really grown sour to social media on the whole. It's all just people who don't give a rats ass what anyone thinks, just pretending they do for the free clout. People think I'm crazy for missing the 'forum era' since forums were so often so toxic, but there was also a more sincerity to them. They were only really monetized on the macro level so almost any discussion thread, was actually wanting to see what others thought and talk it out.
@@amelialonelyfart8848 Oh hell no you not crazy for missing the forum era. I remember being able to actually see familiar faces in a forum after a while and you could build up a reputation of sorts. Now everyone is living in their fleeting five seconds of fame, and chasing that high by trying to be controversial once it’s gone.
It’s tough, especially as it’s harder and harder to meet new people these days, yet if you go online it’s so easy to get caught up in these hostile environments instead of being able to actually have a discussion ):
Hopefully it’s not like this forever, or god forbid it even gets worse somehow… honestly it’s refreshing to even see a reply comment that’s over 10 words and actually gives me the sense that other real people use the internet.
It wasn't tho right? I mean they had whole censoring departments.
Banning scientists, politicians and any regular person not agreeing to the censorship departments views.
I've never used Twitter, but that sounds more dystopian than advertising scams.
The AI era of bots is going to wreck havoc on any social media platform that allows monetization. Twitters fast virality nature is just exceptionally vulnerable.
It was always cancerous to me but the quality of the site certainly has deteriorated under Elon.
The irony of the subject matter and the sponsor...
Everyone is a hypocrite in this world, the problem is sifting through all the shit to find the least hypocritical ones.
Well. It could've been Lomi or Raid, sl
Amen to that. Also I have been deleted in stream chats and comments on YT for referring to this very subject as have dozens of people I know well, who also have any videos on this subject removed for TOS violations and for talking about the explosion of both topic-spamming bot accounts on YT chats and fully automated clip-video spamming content channels on YT who use fake bot accounts to swell their engagement stats. But somehow it can be heard if you feature-advertise AI run scam companies on large commercialised channels.
Masterworks is like selling parts of a bridge to people as an "investment"
Technically that's what shares are for companies which are also a scam that has managed to capture the whole financial system an leverage managed retirement funds etc to centralize the world into pretty much a few major investment companies
as a past advertiser I can tell you this, if the ROI doesnt match the $$$ put in, I will put my ad dollars elsewhere, this in theory at least SHOULD be a self balancing system
As someone who was a data analyst that worked on ad ROI analysis for companies, most they don’t know how to get or understand that number
@@andyvirus2300I've found most people don't actually care about the roi they just want a good number to show their boss regardless if it's accurate
That's what i thought. But then i also realized a lot of the "investors" in these companies are nothing like us, the consumers. All they want is to fakely increase their value and sell it off before everyone realizes its a sham.
normal ad money doesn't concern elon any more, he is playing on higher, geopolitical level, remember he accepted "help" from russian money to seal the twi deal
don't have to pay taxes on that revenue stream also, so its a win-win for him, and he is first and fore most a business man, zero ethics
Bro tryna expose fraud but chose masterworks as the channels sponsor 💀💀
😂🤣🤣
Oh shit! Not him too!
Don't know I they are a fraud, their gimmick is viable.
He’s gotta make money, I don’t blame him. But yeah this masterworks company seems fishy
He has a video going over masterworks. I suggest you guys watch it
X is 50% ads, 25% p0rn, 20% ragebait and 5% actual engaging tweets.
That is the price you pay for freedom of speech. What is the alternatiewe? Reddit? Even youtube comments are moderated by AI to delete anything conservative
Did anything change?
No that's clearly false, the ragebait out strips the porn, of course as someone recently pointed out to me ragebait really is just porn when you get down to it
I've been on Twitter/X since 2010. The algorithm has me down cold by this time as my experience for many years has been about 40% engaging tweets, 40% rage bait, 15% spam, and 5% soft/hard porn. If you engage with the platform long enough, you will get interesting contentent on the regular.
If you are a noob who does not engage/post on the site you will get what all noobs get.
@@Zayphar noob? lmao
When I got to 20K blocked accounts I conceded defeat and deleted my X account. Haven’t missed it.
Sure thing buddy.
@@JackSeries44Sure thing internet bot that the world would be better off without.
@@cobaltcardsgaming5982 sure thing buddy
thats about 20k too many. if u have to block someone and ur not even famous then it's time to log off.
@@Always.Smarter Tbf, you don't even need to have followers. Everytime I go on certain hashtags on twitter I have to report and block hundreds of Indian, Arabian and IPTV bots just to see normal posts.
Luckily I don't use twitter that much but it is tedious.
You know, there was a post on Tumblr years ago joking about how, in the future, Tumblr would become the highest quality social media platform, not because it was actually good but because every other platform became progressively worse in comparison. Recently that post has been reblogged with a picture of the statue of Apollo, in which the statue has glowing red eyes while holding a dodgeball labeled "the gift of prophecy." I continue to find the fulfilled prophetic irony endlessly funny.
i'm starting to wonder what have i been doing with my life if people younger than me can come up with these types of "money making techniques" while i'm doing essentially nothing
That’s how they get you to buy their course. 😂
Be thankful you're not wired for fraud and deception. It's a blessing with rewards that you may not realize until much later in life.
That kind of money comes at a cost. It's fast money but they may be doxxed. Don't let hard honest work go to waste.
Peace of mind and sleeping soundly at night is not to be scoffed at.
They sleep just fine. No morals, means no guilt.
(I know this better than most.)
And this is why my Twitter account is just filled with fanart, gacha game art and Godzilla stuff. Nerd degeneracy achieved.
same... same.
That's the main reason I have a twitter account (still refuse to call it X even after the domain name change).
Based
Not any better
Same. The initial cleanup was arduous but I am proud of what my home page looks like now. Just art and video game related stuff.
People think Twitter is some actively malicious thing trying to make you engage with horrible stuff but, in fact, it's all just one big algorithm. You only see more of what you have already interacted with. Make a conscious effort to tell the algorithm what you DON'T want to see and it will easily bend down to your whim.
Based
I have accounts on some SocMed platforms I've never used or deleted within a year, but I never made one on Twitter either.
wazzup pure blood brother!
Man, I feel the need to be honest, so I wouldnt do it, but as someone from a developing country with a favorable exchange rate, I understand why people do it. It is very tempting. Like I cannot stress how beneficial to LIVE here while earning in dollars.
I had a friend in Cartagena who had a click farm and when I was waking up every morning to go teach at some crappy school I would reconsider my life choices
How much is (or was) your friend getting per month?
I like to call it Shitter because X in chinese is pronounced "sh" so when you share something,you can call it sheeting on shitter
Alright grandpa, don't forget your prostate exam appointement this week.
@@JackSeries44 Not the angry comment engagement bot
I love it, gonna start using it. The joke that is, not Shitter. My brothers favourite joke for last 2 decades was: "UA-cam, Twitter and Facebook are going to amalgamate, the new platform will be called YouTwitFace."
I'm not Chinese, so I'll stick with X-Twit
@@wobblyboost To be fair,I got the joke from Thor (PirateSoftware) and started using it myself so give credit to him,lol
dead internet theory: most of the internet is bots
The hypocrisy is palpable.
Its making more and more sense to see why some companies wouldn't advertise on Twitter anymore
Dead internet theory just keeps moving apace.
Have you seen the ghost population theory?
@@phylocybe_
By all means, enlighten me.
Let them have the Internet
@@ephraimwinslow basically there being 8+ billion on earth is a lie.
don't bother googling it tho, google thinks that is about early humans somehow copulating with ghosts.
when its about a population size just being inferred and not confirmed.
@@ephraimwinslow it’s the idea that a large portion of the worlds population only exist on paper. Countries are incentivized to exaggerate their population numbers to get funding from their own and other governments.
I feel like the real internet died years ago and now we're seeing the maggots eating away what's left of the body.
Growing up in the 80s and having consumed a a steady diet of cyberpunk content I was kind of expecting the world to be a dystopian post nuclear hellscape dominated by amoral global corporations...looks like we're right on track 👍
3:53 "for anyone who is isn't actively watching the video"
I have never been so called out in my entire life...
Ha, yeah me too!
I still think it’s hilarious that “X” and still referred to as Twitter and might be refreshed like that forever since they did a frankly terrible rebranding
It's the dumbest rebranding in history. "Let's replace this naming that everybody already knows about with a single letter that is completely useless for uniqueness, searching or basic f***ing connotation."
He's been trying to call a company "X" for over 20 years.
fElon & his brother started an internet company. Later merged with a competitor, fElon wants to name it "X .com", eventually they fire him for incompetence.
Later that company becomes PayPal, fElon cashes in his shares for over $100million. He invests in Tesla, forces the inventors out, pretends he invented it, and the scams keep coming.
Thunderf00t & Common Sense Skeptic have great YT channels that cover a lot of it.
@@arctic.wizardespecially when everyone already coined the verb sending tweets. After all FB changed up to Meta and nobody uses that one either.
@@arctic.wizard if you search the code for an "x" you might find yourself with and infinite number of results. Harder than looking up "tweeter", harder to make something out of the code.... unless you wanna spend good money and time to find out.
love your work man, you've been on a roll
twitter has always been a money pit even before elons takeover
Great dive into engagement farms bots (guess that's a white lie on Elon's part). But for anyone curious about Masterwork, it's a dubious sponsor. Plain bagel has a good video on them but it can boil down to two things: art returns are high but not guaranteed and people invest in art not necessarily because it's an investment but because they like it.
I have a full video investigating their company/business model with interviews at an executive level where they disclosed internal financials to me. My personal stance is that I stand by them as a valid and worthwhile sponsor of the channel. Everyone should make up their own minds, but that's where i'm coming from.
Dude getting paid give him a rest
@@CODM-dd9um Why don't you give him money out of your own wallet and stop bitching about him taking sponsorships. If you don't like his content don't click on it or better yet have something better than snide comments and have an actual complaint. However I think this is only a bot account that is trying to defend other bot accounts.
Or, viewers can continue to voice their issues with the sponsor, so that the creator can have some feedback, other than white knights and boot lickers?
I hate the entire "just getting paid" when I've already specifically paid extra to not be ahown ads.
There are other ways to get paid than selling my attention to third parties.
@@CatFish107 You do realize that most businesses don't really care what people say about them until it hits them in the wallet. If you don't support the business don't make the purchase, however doing in depth research of your own should be the first thing you do so you really know what you are opposing, I would even say that to someone who was thinking about using a service like that. Step out of the echo chamber and you might actually learn something.
Is Elon Musk a lolcow?
Yup. He is most definitely an unofficial lolcow. Only, not the funny type.
Has been for awhile
Elon is just another mega rich liar..
Billionaire Chris chan.
Oh lord, he is….
I keep getting followers in the form of bots and AI "artists". Doesn't matter how many times I remove and block them, they keep popping up.
Criticizing twitter for being filled with fraud while promoting art NFT "scam" company number 5 that uses non-financially regulated shell companies for each art piece.
Nice going
Masterworks has nothing to do with NFT's. Not sure where you got that from.
@@UpperEchelonTo be more clear on my part, one of the main original visions for NFT's included digitizing shares of existing (real) art (or concert tickets etc.) on a trustless system. This was before the current era of dink doinks & monkey Jpegs.
They are both largely unregulated, heavy on speculation and reliant on FOMO to propagate.
They are also both at risk of undefined value. Fine art = Artificial Scarcity + Subjective Valuations (since they don't sell art all too often). NFT = Wash trading + FOMO + Every other bad thing you can imagine.
Masterworks is the "classical" vision of NFT's with extra steps. The only advantage that Masterworks has is insurance and some legitimacy (which would be inherent for a trustless system anyway).
In my opinion any scheme involving FOMO as a marketing ploy (eg. requesting an invitation for Masterworks/jump the line with my invite code) is a huge red flag and people should stay away from it.
I'm not sure if you remember, but their ads ramped up during periods of financial turmoil and were angled it such a way to help the desperate folk get out of the hole they are in.
You've quite rightly stood against predatory marketing for the years I've watched you, I don't know why you have such a blindspot for these guys.
@@UpperEchelonMy original comment was censored by YT, here is the abridged version:
To be more clear on my part, one of the main original visions for NFT's included digitizing shares of existing (real) art (or concert tickets etc.) on a trustless system. This was before the era of monkey jpegs.
They are both largely unregulated, subjective in value, and rely on FOMO to propagate. Masterworks only has the advantage of insurance, otherwise they are just the "classical" vision of NTF's with extra steps.
The company itself uses well-documented predatory marketing practices (adverts using the get-rich-quick handbook) and should be avoided at all costs by anyone not well informed in the fine arts market.
I see the original comment actually, thank you for posting it.
One thing I would add is that I directly called out the company to the CEO himself for adopting certain marketing techniques a while ago, (I was rather harsh...) and I observed them change as a direct result of my words. (This was when I did a deep dive on them as they got heftily criticized).
That doesn't necessarily mean everyone will have that same context (or even care) but hopefully its another thing that explains my willingness to work with them as a sponsor.
@@UpperEchelon Good video - horrible sponsor.
We might be at that point where truth no longer exists on the internet. If not yet, we are very close.
We were always there. You just got tricked.
Already there and been there for a while 😂
Yeah it's all BS.
oh ok, so your comment is a lie then, gotcha 👌
The amount of porn bots I see on the website is astonishing, you wouldn't believe how they'll always end up on the most random tweets imaginable, they're even replying to 9/11 related tweets.
Tbf it doesn’t bother me that Twitter is going down in flames. The issue I had with Twitter is that it was a progressive echo chamber and had an outsized influence on public discourse.
Because every goddamn journalist was on it so they all thought it was super duper important...uggghh
I really appreciate you explaining the video you were showing for viewer's that are only listening, thanks for that 👍
Everyone wants to talk about what AI is gonna do for biz, but no biz wants to think about what AI will do TO them.
AI CEOs will be trained to maximize profit without requiring a bonus, or jumping to a new company.
An AI CEO does not want or need expensive luxury vehicles and disgusting amounts of money, after all.
@@antondovydaitis2261 won't happen as high payed CEOs is a racket not a meritocratic job in most cases. Often CEOs that destroy companies quickly get a new job as CEO. If it was meritocratic maybe I'd see that happening.
@@mitchellcouchman1444 we can make it happen. For all of their power, they too are simply human at the end.
Masterworks ad :(
My comments keep getting censored by YT. MW's we meet again...
@@randomaccount53793You are being used by Google to teach AI how to "moderate" comments.
At the same time, that same AI is trying to teach you how to "moderate" yourself.
SponsorBlock
@@randomaccount53793 lol not surprised, same happens if you try to post comments about AI scams supported by YT or Twitter, vanished.
Everything that you don't understand is a scam?
Hey, we all need money, but, dude...masterworks? What's next? Betterhelp?
I heard he's considering Theranos as next months sponsor.
It's a highly speculative investment with absurd fees, which isn't quite the same as a scam, question everything
Well, at least the bots on Twitter have a better work ethic than I do.
They promote degeneracy
Wha!?? the man child with too much money isn't being responsible with his network??
No one has ever been responsible with one of these networks. I'm not sure it's existence is responsible.
I've felt so much better since I left twitter. I was mainly on there for F1 content, but my god, F1 twitter got so damn toxic they were creating conspiracy theories over a T shirt. A T SHIRT! And it's the same story with other fandoms and groups too.
avoid groups at all cost. internet full of bums when it comes to these sheep groups
At least there is freedom of speech. A price to pay for that is that you will see weird shit, but on reddit any conservative sentiment is removed and uiu are banned.
Fandoms on other sites: 😎
Fandoms on Twitter: 🤡
The saddest part is it didn't used to be that way, the damage DTS has done to the F1 community is immeasurable
@@LN_997 Are you sure about that? From my experience on the ye olden internet days, fandoms were just as crappy back then as they are today.
> Makes a video about fraud
> Masterworks as sponsor
> Peak hypocrisy achieved!
What’s the deal with masterworks?
I would ask that you go watch the dedicated video I did about masterworks a while ago with interviews of their executives, where I was given access to internal financials. Its fine to have your own opinion, but after dozens of hours of work looking at them as a company, I have determined I am comfortable accepting them as a sponsor. A great deal of the accusations against them were hyperbolic and inaccurate. (much like what happened with Established Titles)
@@Humblee115they are a bs/scam company
@@Humblee115 Let's say its founder is the same type as Mario Nawfal. That should tell you all you need to know, if you're a fan of this channel.
Yeah I knew I remembered Masterworks being in crap for something shady. And now they're sponsoring someone known for investigating shady things?
Elon has succeeded in making Twitter (X) the Cybertruck of the Internet. Congratulations, Elon. We will always remember the Cybertruck, and laugh at everyone who has one.
It was laughing stock both before and after Elon
why? the cyber truck is dope
@@mudkatt2003 You misspelled 'derp'.
@@wobblyboost I spelled it right, it's dope
@@mudkatt2003 Oh, I see, you mean it was designed by a dope for dopes. Gotchya, totally agree. 👍
Proud to say that I've never made a Twitter account.
Relax! Someone already made one for you 😂 but they're using it in your name
Only made one at the height of the GPU shortage to get notifications from stock watchers ASAP. Worked, got one for retail price when they were going for double at the time.
A tech scam artist is being scammed by tech? It figures.
It seems like it would be even easier if this was taken a step further. You could use AI to create realistic looking accounts, a VPN to spread out where they are all logging in from, and that would make it all but impossible to detect bots.
Bots are obvious and easy to detect pretty much no matter which steps they take to hide the fact they are bots. I mean they're bots - they are not smart, even if they do happen to run the latest version of ChatGPT and that becomes obvious if you read through enough of their posts or try have a conversation with one. The problem is there is no good automated way to detect bots and ban them on mass without human intervention, and it's much easier to create a bot for twitter than it is for twitter to find that bot and ban it. Doesn't help that Musk gutted the staff, meaning there are less people to try and get rid of these bots in the first place.
That's how it is yeah
If the accounts aren't stolen/bought then they're generated
And their descriptions, pictures and activity are generated using AI (or scraped from websites)
MasteroftheTDS found a bot that spends all day copy pasting Kotaku articles to twitter
Honestly, I was registered there to follow some 2d artists, but since clown musk's buyout I saw how 95% art in the feed turned into 15% crypto and 85% art, then 30% nft+crypto and 70% art, then 50% crypto+nft+propaganda, then 60% crypto, propaganda and rage baits. So I just deleted my account and didn't have regrets
Artists can be followed elsewhere, and engagement farm content and intellectually insulting ads are offensive to my eyes and I didn't sign up for such a visual abuse
Using AI to scam billionaires out of pocket change is a win in my book. Elon is truly the Business Mogul of our generation.
He's scamming the small individuals like us as well. He's the greatest conman to have ever existed.
It's making fElon / X-Twit money. It's us, the consumers paying for this.
Fake engagement increases "engagement numbers" exponentially. This attracts advertisers, and forces them to pay more, even though the percentage of actual people seeing their commercials decreases. This inturn forces them to charge more for their products, as the Cost per real pair of eyeballs seeing ads increases.
Subscribing, liking, commenting, following, re-X'ing? All seem free, they aren't, it's just indirect.
If you're wondering why everything is getting so expensive, this is part of the problem.
Whenever I'm making a decision, I always ask myself what the worst person would be incentivized by. Thanks, Freakonomics.
This is why a digital ID will never work,not that i have any desire to ever working.We know it’s digital enslavement just like a digitized dollar.Fiat currency is also enslavement but making it only more vulnerable as in hackability is a losing battle.
I've never had a Twitter account...this for me is a personal achievement.
I loved your gaming content, but I'm so glad you branched out to cover stuff like this. Top notch coverage!
Came here from WDW Pro, soon as I heard you were involved I knew there’d be a great video on it
So X monetizes views from unverified accounts? And those views pay out enough to be worth the effort? That is kinda weird. I spent most of the video wondering how having a botnet of paid X accounts could possibly be profitable, but toward the end I gathered that you only verify the monetized accounts and the rest are unverified.
But quite honestly, I think it's insane that anybody advertises on any social media platform. How could there possibly be that much ROI in it? Do people actually click on ads that much? I've bought *maybe* three items via ad click throughs in my life.
Fantastic job! This is a real reply btw. But then again, this is exactly what a bot would say
Masterworks looks like a scam
they present extremely misleading information. they promote gains of artwork that never had anyone own it through their platform. Literally just showing the top 10 most highly appreciated pieces of artwork ever in their marketing material. It would be like if I started a stock trading service and said "Look at the gains of these top 10 penny stocks for reference on what you could make!" only I never touched those penny stocks nor had anything to do with them.
The business itself isn't a scam, but the advertising is misleading for sure. It is common in these type of "investments" like collectables. The only one making money are the flippers. Investing in these schemes you probably gonna lose from all the administrative and transaction costs.
Yeah, never invest in an unregulated market. Yes, you *could* make a lot of money, but you'll probably just lose everything with no legal recourse.
So those bot farms essentially pulled a Spiffing Brit's on X.
And I do wanna call it "X" because no I can call my posts on that platform "Xcretes".
The *Internet's Bottomless Money Pit.
You need an apostrophe to denote possession.
[muphries law strikes again]
You put the apostrophe in the place that denotes a contraction.
@@elLootoboth are the same. which role the apostrophe plays depends on the context.
Is the same thing going on with meta/fb? With that weird ai "art" that was going around?
Seems pretty fair to use AI to take some of the advertising money produced from our endless stream of non-consensual data. My only issue is that they need to be focusing more on Facebook/meta and make it easier for me to do it with a couple of clicks.
I hope we are free of the bots one day
That cat's outta the bag and there's no putting it back in, AI is here to stay....unfortunately
my twitter got suspended no blue check. not a bot.. shit is sad smh
Love your videos man
I won't touch that platform. I left it as soon as Elon got his stinky, grubby hands on it, and I have no regrets.
I touch tooooo much grass to even consider lending my time to that cesspool
This Ted Talk video 10/10 IGN 😂
Honestly, almost any attempts to monetize Twitter was going to result in this.
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🐍 no step on snek!🇺🇸🇭🇰
It's the hard truth. Twitter has always been a product that can only ever justify a price of free from the end user.
Can I pet Snek?
i love how twitter decides politics even though a big minority of people are actually on that cespool of a website
is there any sci-fi media that predicted this kind of dystopia specifically? i would certainly enjoy reading/watching it more rather than living in it
Do the people who "purchase" the adspace eventually figure it out that any consequential followers are bots or fake accounts or no traffic actually comes in? Like if i spent $20 on this and then nobody, not even one real person came from it, i wouldnt use that service again.
dude, i need to find somewhere else to post my pixel art, holy shit
And this is why I never use Twitter…it’s always been a cesspool and nothing has changed
I would like this see one for Facebook which is starting to have this engagement farming with AI art as well! It’s funny but Instagram the actual photo platform doesn’t have this problem at all even though they tried to follow it as well!
Best hope Tesla isn't a Boeing affiliate, lol...
Doesn't refusing to call it X "like a middle school child" make you behave exactly like a child?
Seems petty and immature 🤷♂️
Petty and immature is it being called X, like a porn site. Though thinking on it, the name's appropriate.
For real now, you can't go around and make this videos just to turn around and showcase masterworks which Is a renowned scam, shared ownership is a broken model riddled with fees, yearly expenses, no control over resale and price of resale, commission fees and house fees. It's literally burning money while allowing a private company to grow on the back of unknowingly customers.
Do better.
Ok might sound wierd.... but This Is A Good Thing(tm)
Tanking the advertising revenue model on the internet is key to killing the bot traffic in and of itself. This may literally be a self rectifying problem.
Not that we cant hasten the process by writing bots that actively engage with advertising, clicking on and viewing as many ads as possible: tank the clickthrough rates and the referral to sales rations enough and the internet stops being financially viable as an advertising medium.
I don't think it's that simple
If the internet stops being financially viable for advertising
Website hosts will be forced to foot their server costs with other methods
We lose the free, advert riddled internet, in exchange for paid subscription based net
Twitter blue and engagement boosts are a sign of things to come
MTX internet
@@SnipyShino They arent using advertising to "foot their server costs." They are using the "advertising as profit" model.
Those costs have been almost zero for a very long time. I can remember when traffic cost $1/Mb (yes, megabyte) back in the 90's. By 2001 they were negligible.
Weve already been through several iterations of "banner farms" and the like, the result is always to make that profit model obsolete; basic adblockers did that to banner farms; those adserver companies that allowed banner farms went broke. Google is basically the only survivor from that era, and that is because their crawlers actually police a policy that prevents banner farming.
We went through the annoying as funk popup/popunder era, with the same results: make it unprofitable and it goes away. Those advertising companies that used pop-unders are long gone.
And yes, in those days people did farm their own sites with IP spoofing bots just for the ad revenue.
OTOH I know of hundreds of websites that have been around, selling their products or providing their service, without plastering their site with advertising for more than 15 years, some of them for more than 20.
Now we can start clearing the ccer from social media.
Upper Echelon 7+ years ago my tweeter account was re-tweeting this Russian propaganda without me having done anything and having all my settings to private. The account was not hacked but still it happened. It took me 1year to notice due to the fact that I didn't use tweeter for a while. Magic
Yeah lets all feel bad for the "big advertisers" lmaooo
Thanks! Do you think this is part of why there are also so many bots on UA-cam? The scam bots trying to get people to click links, look up certain stuff, etc. are obvious, but I have wondered what the bots leaving comments that don’t promote stuff get out of it. I feel kind of stupid now because of course someone would build a network of bot accounts to watch and interact with videos so the channel owner gets more ad money.
I'm finding it hard to feel sorry for Elon.
no one should feel sorry for businessmen, but people shouldn't persecute them either. lot of that going around
That cesspit was burn or buy. We can do buy, then burn. If it can't be managed towards genuine human use and benefit, then it will be removed... _Same as the rest._
So determines the Fulcrum of Continuity
This is why I use a firefox PWA version of Twitter for my phone. It allows me to use the twitter control panel which means I can block all twitter blue accounts. It's clear scams will never be taken care of on twitter and I'm just glad I get to ignore all of the trash that'll keep growing
Elon Musk is the world most famous Snake Oil Salesman. And the "Elon Bros" look at him like a god, it's crazy.
Do you think this wouldn't be a problem if elon didn't buy the company? I am curious how people like you can hate a man so much for little reason.
My own answer would be that it will still happen but to a lesser degree, but not because musk is incompetent but because there are too many people who love to watch him fail. I've even seen people commenting about disrupting tesla ai driver learning process because just to spite him when it could have been the answer to the car accident problem thereby saving future generation from crash accident.
I am sure that X (twitter) would still be 💩 regardless of who own it, but having the chance to spite him make it more tempting for people to make it worst experience.
You'd think the advertisers would simply evaluate their ROI, see that it's not worth it to pay the rates and move on to other platforms.
This was an excellent video, even by your usually high standards. Well done.
I think one of the problems is all of this is dependent on "what side of Twitter/X" you are on. This seems to be a problem only if you follow the mainstream media, celebrities, and other normie accounts.
i have always enjoy your content Echelon but what is my take away here? Call to action? While i enjoy diving deep into stuff that might make some people hair turn white, I'm not really sure how to address this issue or other issues you might bring up? Anymore i feel like i am trapped in this not sure what to call it. Where i feel like i have to research something so much and so deep that i can then decided if they are F me over. For instance Foods that are not GMO, i want to use A.I. to help with the process but the more i look into that it seems it being programed by people who have a agenda that not good? Still keep up the work you make good content.
On what objective, hard proofed data, did you establish your claim that the number of bots on Twitter increased during Elon's time? What was the estimated number of inauthentic or monetized bots before he took over, and what is the current estimated number? You suggested that during his time the number of bots increased, but you don't show any proof to that claim. Elon perhaps even lowered the bots' number as far as we can tell (or know, since the more precise number is probably a well-kept secret in Twitter).
Why do bott accounts have butt icons?
Lowest. Common. Denominator.
Because they are pr0n bots.
Scrolled down 31 comments to a butt icon.
Because they apread shit
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Can't and do not want to confirm this but artists have started telling other artists to stop using the nsfw hashtag because the "kitty" in bio bots have started responding to that tag with fucking cp. I fucking hate that hell-site.
Oh wow I had no idea that was happening but Im not surprised, Elons staff is incompetent as hell.
@@Quarckster What ever staff is left that he didn't fire.
I frequently get so many goddamn sexbot likes that occur frequently and follow which occur less, which I hate because I don’t want likes backed by stupid npcs that want to promote their worthless sex scam services, in addition to them holding shadow-banning capabilities. This is all crap that didn’t happen before Elon took control of this platform.
Seriously, how hard can it be to figure out that someone who's clicking on thousands of tweets per hour for hours on end is a bot, not a human? ...if you're actually interested in finding out, that is.
For Real AUstralian Dollar MONEY = Fraud money
As an Australian, I agree with the thumbnail, our economy is fucked but don’t understand the relevance of that X thing
this is a joke btw
Thanks for what you do
I think instead of keep calling it Twitter, we should not call it X instead, but always "The website formally known as Twitter". I think that would annoy the shit out of Elon, which would be a great outcome
the kicked me off there ..twice 😂
the solution to all of this is to unplug from these platforms... it's the internet, all of it. The word 'trust' is going to be very rare in the future.
About the "AI reducing costs", that's an absolute lie. A prime example for me has been two days ago. Adobe marketplace was asking 65€ for a single JPEG of a non-seamless, AI generated texture. On artstation, I could find related, hand made, ready for use, made by a professionist asset package for 6€.
Considering I've been told ad-nauseum about this supposed "bright future" with AI making everything fast, cheap and easy, I am laughing at them for asking 10 times more what a professionist of the job asks, for a massively inferior product none the less.
who says the manufacturing cost has been higher?
I believe the minute you add "money" to a community service... that's the minute quality depreciates.
Look at Crypto and NFTs... live service games... money is seldom the solution, bro!
Everything online is Enshittification. The internet as the world knew and loved it died right around the same time Twitter was born.
The internet peaked in 2010-2012.
I’m happy to call it “X” now it routes to that domain… and because I miss actual Twitter!