I’m so nervous, what if he’s okay?

His neck just did that.

I once got banned from some weird parenting subreddit I’d never visited because I said cheeseburgers aren’t kosher, some mods are just freaking weird (or bots.)

Try this one.

This is tinfoil hat stuff, but based on the ads I’m shown, it’s almost like they pick ones they know won’t appeal to you since they know anger drives up engagement. Google can probably guess from my search history that I’m trans and asexual, since I’ve asked questions online relating to that. And then the majority of the ads I get on YouTube are porn and anti trans things.

Pretty much stopped using it once they decided my 20 year old account must belong to a child and demanded my ID. (Still don’t know why that happened. The account itself is over eighteen and I don’t live in the US where that policy was supposed to take effect.) This doesn’t make it any more appealing.

I remember when you just had, like, banner ads and an ad next to the video. And now you get those gross ads for AI sexbots and stuff.

And I really don’t think the latter is just because of my own search history. I’m asexual and don’t look at porn sites. I also noticed an uptick in the sex ads after YouTube decided I was a minor, so that’s pretty freaking weird.

Then I also get far right ads about how trans people are terrible, that are basically hate speech and propaganda.

I wish other platforms for long form video content existed.

I got permabanned a while ago. In the time since, I’ve moved to a new country and gotten all new devices. Made a new account with a new email address to try to join local subs in the new area.

That account was banned a couple hours later for ban evasion. I had made zero comments or posts and hadn’t joined any of my old subs. After that, I assumed they just have an AI that auto bans a chunk of new accounts “just in case”, because I genuinely have no idea what they could have done to connect the two accounts to each other.

I’ve stopped using YouTube for the most part. Cut down a lot once they broke the search function and I could no longer find what I was looking for because every result would be flooded with random shorts and other irrelevant content.

Then, my account, which was made in either 05 or 06, got flagged as belonging to a minor and they asked me to verify my age with an ID. Why this even happened when the account itself is over 18 now, and I’m not in the US (which I thought was the only place their age verification BS was being implemented) is beyond me.

I wish there were more options for long form video sharing, since YouTube seems to be the only viable platform for it at the moment.

What’s wrong with Brave?/gen I keep seeing positive comments about it, so there must be something I don’t know.

Maybe they shouldn’t have started price gouging to such a ridiculous degree.

Can’t believe the Nazis won’t stop doing Nazi stuff. That’s so unlike them.

Countdown to ID verification requirements.

And a fork makes a terrible electrician.

Dunno why this is worldwide, then. Why should I have to comply with what some states in the US want when I’m not even in the same country, and my country has none of these age verification laws? Whole world shouldn’t have to give up their privacy just because Tennessee said so.

Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.

I didn’t laugh and start selling merch after my friend’s suicide. Nor did anyone who knew him. I’ve never seen anyone “grieve” like that.

That’s the most important law of them all.

They’ll probably take place, but ICE will be hanging out at polling locations to assault/detain/disappear people they don’t think will vote “correctly.”

He’ll write them a strongly worded letter, at least.