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Does anyone have that geats gif where the guy is dodging bullets by doing the fish flop

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being a kid and hearing adults say stuff like "woah 2011 was 4 years ago haha" didn't really convey the fucking horror of a youtube video crossing my recommended labelled "9 years ago" and it's from 2017. that's not true. 9 years ago is 2010 or something. don't lie.

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Source:

shencomix

xylocopae

starting a collection

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PC Mag - November 1999 Throw Out Your Software

pavelow

Hmmm

yan-town

nickpeppermint

Kit wearing traditional Ukrainian vyshyvanka! 🌻

Fun fact: "Kit" directly translates into "cat" in Ukrainian, and also today is vyshyvanka day! Yay!

calware

dragonsiren

Audio: Windows USB connect and disconnect sounds

pukicho

comic where steve from minecraft sees a round guy

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imagine living somewhere flat….with like……almost no hills…..what do you guys do for fun get picked off by birds of prey or

batsandboba

learning that 5 minute crafts is a russian mafia operation wasn't on my 2026 bingo card but also doesn't really surprise me

jabibi-posting

its what

batsandboba

russian mafia operation

isa-ghost

Hey what

batsandboba

oh. i’m sure its fine and normal that a video investigating the massive bot farm/slop channel shell company connections to the russian mafia and youtube’s own implication by allowing it to continue for profit has mysteriously vanished with no word from op.

batsandboba

Original (now taken down) video of CHUPPL exposing SoulPublishing and 5 Min Crafts networkAn Exposé of the weirdest channel on the internetG

internet archive link

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Key points:

What's been known for a long time it seems is that the parent company is owned by two Russians, based in Cyprus, and that it owns a cloud of youtube and other media channels, most of them dedicated to mindless content churning like 5 minutes crafts and a few others having done Russian propaganda such as slanted history articles.

The vid author ran a tracker that looked up the age of the commenters' *account*

This is a normal range for account ages in youtube comments:

And this is the age range for the commenter *accounts* on the 5 Minutes Craft channel: they are all newly created accounts and a majority of them are one second old.

It identifies major bot activity with the aim of creating an artificial audience, which in turns generates a huge ads revenue. This trafic and ads revenue is why the channel has a contract as an official partner with YouTube (-> massive revenue theft !)

Financially, the company is organised in offshore shell holdings that are based in money laundering countries (Seychelles, Virgin Islands). The founders were also named in the Pandora papers.

In 2020, the company, alongside other Russian Cyprus-based it companies, made a public donation that the vid author cross-referenced against a 2025 cybersecurity report, Deniability by Design, that alledged that the donation was connected to a criminal network, Vain Viper, that does ad fraud and cyberattacks.

One actor in that network was physically close to the company (office neighbirs and same lawyers) and appears to have been implicated in the hack of the Democratic National Committee.