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millionmovieproject · 8 months

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It's a holiday. For children. Give them the candy, or fuck off.

#halloween #trick or treat #autism #developmental delay #sensory disorders #disability #disability awareness #nonverbal #fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union

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existennialmemes · 7 months

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Hey! Sorry it's been a while since we've talked! I've been meaning to reach out, but I'm hopelessly overwhelmed and have nothing to say! Hope you're doing well! I probably won't respond again for several months!

#shitpost #shitposting #actually autistic #audhd #neurodivergent #burnout #neurodivergent memes #we live in hell #adhd #a modern calling card if you will

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calyxcurl · 7 months

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Our US tax dollars are actively funding the apartheid state that is committing gənociḍə in Gaza. Our US tax dollars are funding the oppression and suppression of Filipinos fighting against the Marcos regime. Our US tax dollars are funding a hyper militarized police force to keep anti-black racism alive in America.

Long live international solidarity

#we live in hell #late stage capitalism #darkest timeline #gaza #palestine #free palestine #israel is a terrorist state #israel is an apartheid state #palestine is under attack #pro-Palestine is NOT antisemitism #idk which account to post this #my art

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socialjusticeangel · 4 months

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a lot of thievery from grocery stores has been documented lately, however at the same time grocery store profits are at an all time high.

nobody is talking about how these two are connected, why are people stealing from stores? something that could get them in jail, get them fired, potentially lose friends/their partner if they have one, keep them from getting jobs in the future just so they can eat, so their families can eat?!

people are stealing because it costs so much to get a meal these days, on top of living expenses. its becoming the only option, the only thing they can do besides starve. its literally the only option unless they wanna fucking die??? get sick??

its insane how basic necessities, not just food but water shelter medication ect is so expensive that most people cant afford it.

this is an actual nightmare if something doesnt happen soon i think society is gonna be like permanently fucked

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holyfigtree · 3 months

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#palestine #tragically always relevant #we live in hell

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arguablysomaya · 5 months

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by the way, in month 3 of the genocide in Gaza, if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the images of what looks to be mass executions carried out by the idf in gaza, you could always just look at american domestic events, where multiple people were murdered the same day the 2023 assault weapons ban failed to pass

#we live in hell #shut up somaya #i/p

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mydogjelly · 14 days

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It’s a good day to be the worst type of person.

#homestuck #neil banging out the tunes #john egbert #april 13 #we live in hell #but i’m having fun

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millionmovieproject · 2 months

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Bastard

#genocide joe #voting is a scam #free palestine #justice for palestine #free gaza #fuck capitalism #capitalism kills #we live in hell #socialism now #abolish capitalism #peoples union

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existennialmemes · 4 months

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We shouldn't end the year on bad terms, so let's restructure our entire society really quick

#shitpost #shitposting #new years #leftist memes #we live in a dystopia #we live in hell #anti capitalism

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kneecap-homicide · 6 months

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The absolute state of YouTube ads

As someone who has been using an adblocker for at least a decade, and is currently having to pause it on YouTube, here are some things I've noticed which I haven't seen anyone else bring up (yet).

You can no longer tell when ads play in a video

I'm pretty damn sure there used to be a small yellow segment in the video progress bar, so you could at least know in which parts of the video there would be ads. Now, they just start out of nowhere, and if it's a longer video and the creator has shoved all their ads in the last 10 minutes, you're hit with a barrage of ad after ad.

Ads will just play whenever

In a similar vein to the previous point, unless the creator has carefully integrated the ads with their video (e.g. "before we get into that, I'm just going to play some midrolls" or "I'll be back after this short commercial break"), the ads will play in the middle of whatever the video is about, completely ruining the immersion. I don't believe many YouTubers integrate their ads in this way.

I've heard some people say that sitting through 1-2 short ads isn't as intrusive as sitting through 5-10 minutes of them on TV (such as in this video by SomeOrdinaryGamers). And I honestly cannot agree. As some have said, YouTube ads don't have the same moral standards as TV ads, and this is true, although I myself haven't yet seen any ads of dubious morality since pausing adblock.

But my main gripe with this take is that again, TV ads have set commercial breaks which the vast majority of YouTube videos do not, and the time between these breaks is ~20 minutes depending on the country (see Wikipedia). This means the ads won't start in the middle of a sentence or dramatic scene in a nature documentary.

You can:

Predict when the ads will start based on how long it's been since the last commercial break

Predict when the ads will start based on predicting when the scene in your program is going to end

And, of course, you can change channels during a commercial break, and watch something else in the meantime, or just get up and do something else since the commercial break lasts long enough to do that.

The ads in YouTube are too short to warrant changing tabs, so instead you just mute the ad, and sit there staring mindlessly at the screen until the ad finishes, or until you can click the skip button.

YouTube ads are high maintenance

As I've just mentioned in the previous point, you can't get up while the ads play, or switch tabs. You have to mute the ad, and just wait. Wait until the skip ad button appears, or until the two unskippable ads play out. In total, it probably only takes about 30 seconds, so why would you try to do anything else?

And if it happens to be a morally questionable ad, you might also want to report it.

All YouTube ads are videos

What happened to the little popup ads that you would just click the 'x' on and you're done? Have I just been unlucky and not seen any, or are they actually gone? This is a genuine question btw.

Can't believe I'm saying this, but I miss popups. Relatively speaking, they're way less intrusive than video ads, because you can keep watching the video already in progress. And if they do still exist, then at a much reduced rate than the videos, at least in my experience, given that I haven't yet seen one.

Adblockers should not be against YouTube's terms of service

This is definitely my weakest point, and I'm positive others have already brought this up. But what I do on my Personal Computer (emphasis on Personal) should not have any bearing on my relationship with the websites I visit, and if it does, it will make me question my usage of that website.

If the conditions surrounding your adverts are causing a large portion of your userbase to turn to adblockers, maybe instead of biting the hand that feeds you, you could improve the conditions and make adverts less intrusive, and keep better tabs on what kinds of ads you're approving. The change in revenue wouldn't be instant, but more people would eventually stop using adblockers on YouTube. If you recall what happened on Tumblr, userbases are actually happy to support sites they feel deserve being supported.

Overall, YouTube is pretty great, and while there are certain competitors out there, none of them do exactly what YouTube does. But forcing ads might make people turn to alternatives anyway.

Getting back to television, there isn't a law against changing channels or just turning your TV off for 5 minutes and making some toast. If you never watch a single ad on TV, your TV licence won't be revoked. TV commercials have a good system that hasn't really changed much over the years. Maybe commercial breaks have gotten longer, but that's it.

YouTube really needs to improve the QoL surrounding ads, because people will just continue using adblockers which update to circumvent YouTube's anti-adblock system.

TL;DR

YouTube ads are somehow more annoying than TV ads because they don't have set commercial breaks unless the YouTuber integrates them accordingly, and it sucks.

#tl;dr #youtube #youtube ads #youtube advertising #youtube adblock #ads #advertising #commercials #we live in hell

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neonleonsmessymindpalace · 29 days

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