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[arybuildsthefire]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtGscT3l-bs)

[sweeneysays]

Super A+ Idea Channel episode about the way in which terminology surrounding harmless v. harmful behavior is collapsing. Calling harassers “trolls” concedes the point -- that this shit is serious -- in a way that is profoundly unproductive for the culture at large and, more importantly, the people being targeted by abusive behavior.

[akinsman]

anyone that loves pbsideachannel the way that i do will also love the shit out of folding ideas. they do very similar things with pop-culture and academic argument. like it’s beautiful. and i like that the channels appreciate one another in an entirely non-competitive way.

you go guys.

[tails-155]

Time for one of these somewhat sociopolitical posts I try not to make on here, but I feel like this is a good discussion to have since I support so much media. I made a post on this video:

The legitimate problem with advertising is the intrusiveness of ads. I have no problem with non-sound non-flashing banner ads and the like. Simple ads. I'll even sometimes click on stuff even if it doesn't interest me to support sites if they have that type of ads. YouTube almost single-handedly convinced me to GET Ad-Blocker. It was basically the first domino: I started debating getting Ad-Block back when YouTube started doing video ads. (Again, I used to click the banner ads, and will still click the little bottom-of-video ads if they show up instead.) What happened was I'd get ads that were sometimes longer than the video I was intending to watch. I put a lot of videos on in the background for white noise, so I don't always have the ability to click the next button if I'm in the other room and I'm listening to a music playlist. Further, early in the ad cycle I seem to remember a time before the skip option in the first place. I remember multiple ads coming up over my time on YT that were thirty minutes to an hour long, sometimes for a two minute video. It was repulsive and absurd. The second was the continued irritation of three types of ads (luckily popups had MOSTLY died by this time, though they'll never be truly dead): sound ads that appear in unidentifiable places on sites; sites where the whole background is an ad link, and if I click out of window and back in, I can occasionally click an ad, lose my place, and stop caring about the content; and those sort-of-popup pop-over ads that stop you from accessing the content until you find the exit, sometimes having to wait a certain length of time before you can even do that. I am okay with advertisements that aren't intrusive. Give me a banner ad or a personalized square ad on the side of a page or video or whatever, and sure, I'm fine with it. Like I said, I'll sometimes click links, browse for a little bit and make use of the ads, even if the product doesn't fully interest me. Heck, I do surveys for companies, whatever. I'm happy to help places that provide services for me, but you gotta meet me halfway. I am fine with going to a place and having them ask me if I want something from whatever their push sale is. I am not okay with them stopping me for thirty minutes to push something on me I don't want. It's about balance. There need to be kind of self-imposed regulations about what is intrusive and what is not. Advertising is its own sort of beast. It has a motive. It wants to sell things. I will not buy something if I feel put off by the delivery (why I didn't shop at Old Navy for quite a while. I found their ads extremely irritating at one point.) As such, my arm was somewhat twisted by the arguably unethical lengths online advertisers will go to to force things on me too much, too hard, and for too long, that drove me to use ABP. I tried to avoid it, for a couple years I did, but eventually it wore me down. To this day I still have marked the "allow some nonintrusive advertising" option. I don't want to starve the content providers. I want to see places succeed. You can't do that through underhanded tactics, and I know the providers aren't to blame, it's the ad agencies that accept unacceptable ads onto their service, and receive no reprimand for it. In that way I could almost argue that ad agencies are destroying the content of the web by driving users away.

^ I am serious, too. ^

It’s about image and representation, and by representing your content providers poorly, you hurt those content providers. Ad agencies don’t really receive any punishment for this, either, and they are the ones in power on this one.

[dovebuffy92]

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[akinsman]

third time having a comment featured on pbsideachannel

*victory fist*

[akinsman]

Why Makeup Isn't Superficial | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios

[scottpaladin]

My internet existence has begun to eat it's own tail.

A strange circle closed for me yesterday. For a period of a few months several years ago, I was a very prolific maker of animated GIFs for a particular fandom1. The other day, as I was watching the new PBSIdeaChannel video, one I was highly anticipating, I noticed one of those gifs used as one of Mike’s over the shoulder graphics.

I was so excited that I may have flailed around a bit and yelled rather loudly. This isn’t the first time one of these images as popped up for me as I wandered the internet. However it is the most prominent example and one both far removed from its source fandom and close to my current interested. So cool.

Now I’m waiting for somebody to recommend one of my own fan fics back to me.

My internet existence has begun to eat it’s own tail. was originally published on Scott Paladin