Availability of YouTube videos posted in Nazi threads on 4chan/pol/ yesterday v. today. In addition to @TeamYoutube’s demonetization efforts, extreme right videos were purged in one sweep, including holocaust denial and Nazi apologia. Half of the original sample disappeared.pic.twitter.com/v1cWufIsYY
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Out of this 1008-video sample (spanning 6 years), only 531 were available yesterday (53%). Today, 256 remain (25%). The majority of these videos disappeared because their channels were removed (35%). 16% were simply “unavailable” and 8% were flagged as explicitly “violating ToS”.
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While many videos and channels are now gone, they are often uploaded to archive sites (notably
@InternetArchive) or immediately reuploaded to YouTube. Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCABtNAUOXA-m9ClqGTLKQOQ ….1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
What remains is found footage that isn’t explicitly hateful, but whose comment section is https://youtu.be/hF8dKALKB4E — 4chan-style antisemitic vernacular remains quite common in the bottom half of YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UpuouOomU …
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