I have a favorite YouTube video bookmarked. It has 5.4 million views and is from 10 years ago.
“Ain’t No Rest for the Triggered” – Social Justice: The Musical
I think this video is a particularly good satire of the Social Justice Warrior movement. So many of the frames in the video are hard-biting examples of hypocrisy by people who are fine with oppression (of others) but who would severely reject the same oppression for themselves if their roles were reversed.
The sly censorship by YouTube is not making this video visible on the content creator’s page.1
Go ahead and sort by “Popular”. The topmost, most popular video has 1.7 million views from 9 years ago.
Really?
1.7 million views is more popular than 5.4 million views?
Really‽
Even if you sort by “Oldest” and scroll down to the list of videos published 10 years ago, “Ain’t No Rest for the Triggered” – Social Justice: The Musical is not listed.
The censors at YouTube simply want no one to be able to find this video but also don’t want to remove it because that would prove the very actions the video mocks.
I am happy that Salon will be no more. This is an appropriate end to a promoter of feelings-instead-of-reason hiding as “news”.
- How does YouTube make money? Content creators upload content (for free), and YouTube wraps ads around it. But this is YouTube shitting on the content creator because they don’t like them and their friends being mocked. I bet they still cashed their paychecks though. ↩︎