Apparently a pack of complete morons over at Goolag (yes, I know, I’m on Blogger, pot, kettle, etc.) decided to put together a video celebrating the highs of 2018 on the YouTube platform, and… it ended up being, as far as I know, the most disliked video in YouTube history:

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So there I was, waking up this morning on a cold and frosty day in [redacted], when I saw that my YouTube feed was showing a recommended video by Sargon of Akkad (a.k.a. The Latest Victim of Patreon Politics).

Normally I do not watch Carl Benjamin’s videos; Sargon is not of the Hard Right, he is at best a moderate who believes that the effing nutballs of the Hard Left really have gone off the deep end. I also find his delivery a bit… well, boring, frankly, but that’s me. You might well think differently, and hey, that’s great, good for you.

But this particular video was not particularly long – only 7 minutes or so – and had a rather provocative title, talking about the most disliked video in history.

Being one to chase rabbits down their holes, I of course watched the whole video that Sargon was criticising. This was a huge mistake, and I want those 8 minutes of my life back.

It was as if the corporate types of the Silicon Valley Hard Left Monoculture decided to get together in a room and make a video in which they could cram every virtue-signalling trope, letter in the LGBTQWTFISTHISSHIT acronym (never mind that the B contradicts the T, as Owen Benjamin recently and quite aptly pointed out), skin (and hair) colour, and top it all off with really bad electronic music.

And then, on top of that, they decided to completely leave out the single biggest personality on YouTube – PewDiePie.

Oh, sure, they had people in the video with millions of subscribers – including everyone’s favourite craggy-faced punching bag, Casey Neistat. (Full disclosure: I have never met Casey Neistat, but I do know, and in fact have sparred with, one of his relatives.) But they don’t have the single most subscribed guy on YouTube.

And he’s just one guy who likes playing games and makes really funny comments about them. He is about to be overtaken in the subscriber stakes by some Indian record label that I’ve never heard of.

(This says more about me than the record label; while I have a friend who knows a LOT more about heavy metal than I do, and in fact introduced me to the genre, I would easily be very competitive in a game of metal-related Trivial Pursuit. However, I am totally useless when it comes to pop music and Bollywood. And remember that India alone has over 1.2 BILLION people, hundreds of millions of whom have internet access. So it isn’t that surprising that an Indian record label is about to bump PewDiePie off his perch.)

So, not only did YouTube HQ basically create a video specifically designed to shit all over white people, especially white men, but they simply left out the single most talented person on the platform, who just so happens to be a white dude with a funny accent.

At this point, the utter destruction of the tech giants is simply a function of time and pressure. People are already ditching the various platforms because of the shadowbanning, the hidden censorship, the demonetisation, the endless violations of their own terms of service, the ambiguity of the same, and the constant stream of nonsense that comes from their Orwellian “Trust and Safety” councils and committees.

Goolag, Faceborg, and Twatter are all suffering from a serious case of tin ear, and nothing demonstrates it better than that video. At the time of this writing, there are not 8 million dislikes on that video, as Sargon noted; there are not 10 million, as The Chive link noted; there are over 12 million.

YouTube didn’t just make a bad video. They made one designed to absolutely enrage their own user base.

Call me crazy, but this doesn’t strike me as a good business model.