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<blockquote data-quote="Willie the Duck" data-source="post: 9235244" data-attributes="member: 6799660"><p>I don't understand how people have come to take this turn of phrase as a reasoned and insightful rejoinder. To me, it sounds more like something a bad pick-up-artist would say after a failed seduction attempt*. Regardless, it's utterly ridiculous. People who participate in the toxic part of 'the game' are actively contributing to the toxification process. A process that, for social media platforms and similar two-sided market situations like YouTube, are becoming so prevalent that they are getting their own specific unflattering <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification" target="_blank">terminology</a>. "The game" is making places like YouTube, Facebook, and similar so nearly useless to the viewer base that it is only previous investment (technical and emotional/social buy-in) and lack of data/audience/social network portability that are keeping people on said platforms. Any number of times in history**<em>,</em> various industries have been rife with objectionable business tactics. I see no way that that being the only way they could participate in said business at the time somehow being a reasonable excuse or deflection of the criticism that the tactic was, in fact, objectionable<em>. </em><span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)"><em>'hey baby, it's not my fault lying and deception are accepted norms in the scene, I'm just playing the hand dealt me'</em> or something. **and yeah, I can't be too specific with this, but you all have your own examples. </span></p><p></p><p>Even more regardless, if this just the game that has* to be played, then the people actively choosing to have no excuse when called out on it, nor should they have any expectation not to suffer the downstream consequences of said game. If the OP video presenter finds that people do not take them seriously because of their clickbaiting tactics, well then that's the bed they chose to make (even if the choice really is 'otherwise my revenue will not make this a worthwhile endeavor for me'), and they need to lie in it. A pithy justification does not circumvent ones needs to accept the consequences of their actions. <span style="color: rgb(209, 213, 216)">*As others have said, there are plenty of well-loved and even successful YouTube personalities out there who do not use these practices, who generally flourish <strong>because </strong>of the good will not plummeting to the lowest common denominator affords them. </span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Willie the Duck, post: 9235244, member: 6799660"] I don't understand how people have come to take this turn of phrase as a reasoned and insightful rejoinder. To me, it sounds more like something a bad pick-up-artist would say after a failed seduction attempt*. Regardless, it's utterly ridiculous. People who participate in the toxic part of 'the game' are actively contributing to the toxification process. A process that, for social media platforms and similar two-sided market situations like YouTube, are becoming so prevalent that they are getting their own specific unflattering [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification']terminology[/URL]. "The game" is making places like YouTube, Facebook, and similar so nearly useless to the viewer base that it is only previous investment (technical and emotional/social buy-in) and lack of data/audience/social network portability that are keeping people on said platforms. Any number of times in history**[I],[/I] various industries have been rife with objectionable business tactics. I see no way that that being the only way they could participate in said business at the time somehow being a reasonable excuse or deflection of the criticism that the tactic was, in fact, objectionable[I]. [/I][COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)][I]'hey baby, it's not my fault lying and deception are accepted norms in the scene, I'm just playing the hand dealt me'[/I] or something. **and yeah, I can't be too specific with this, but you all have your own examples. [/COLOR] Even more regardless, if this just the game that has* to be played, then the people actively choosing to have no excuse when called out on it, nor should they have any expectation not to suffer the downstream consequences of said game. If the OP video presenter finds that people do not take them seriously because of their clickbaiting tactics, well then that's the bed they chose to make (even if the choice really is 'otherwise my revenue will not make this a worthwhile endeavor for me'), and they need to lie in it. A pithy justification does not circumvent ones needs to accept the consequences of their actions. [COLOR=rgb(209, 213, 216)]*As others have said, there are plenty of well-loved and even successful YouTube personalities out there who do not use these practices, who generally flourish [B]because [/B]of the good will not plummeting to the lowest common denominator affords them. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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