• Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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      21 hours ago

      This is such a weird position to take, they’re doing investigative journalism, but you’re upset because they’re not dry and emotionless about it?

    • Harvey656@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Hot take, who cares if it’s mildly emotional as long as it delivers the truth. The issue with sensationalism is that it usually hides the truth, lies, or tells half truths. If the facts are all right there, who care?

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      2 days ago

      that’s because they are forced to by the yt algorithm: you flat out cannot run a business on yt without resorting to clickbait titles, stupid thumbnails, and a bit of sensationalization, because the algorithm will deprioritize your video and unfairly limit your viewership if you don’t do those things.

      Steve’s videos are generally very much dry, factual reporting using fairly neutral language; or in other words: really decent reporting!

      if you want to complain about some tech youtuber doing the exact things you complain about, look at linus and jay…

      there’s some good reasons why steve is one of only a handful of tech channels i still subscribe to…