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0 pointsmagic_hamster3y ago0 comments

YouTube and TikTok are not counterculture but they are the platforms where counterculture happens.

> a social media "influencer" with millions of followers is not countercultural.

A social media "influencer" could be more important to a younger audience than other mediums, meaning this is the "culture" they will try to counter.

Edit: narrowed it down a little.

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hutzlibu3y ago

" they are the platforms where counterculture happens"

And where exactly can I find them?

Trough the corporate algorithm, that doesn't even let me rewind a video?

Counterculture exists and sone of those expose their lifestyle and projects on these plattforms for fame and money, but that culture surely does not "live" on those plattforms.

AlexandrB3y ago

> Trough the corporate algorithm, that doesn't even let me rewind a video?

It's worse than that. You used to have to "sell out" to corporate interests before your countercultural cache evaporated. Most YouTube creators "sell out" to advertisers the second they start their channel because getting any revenue on YouTube requires following YouTube's rules. And these rules are getting increasingly draconian with swearing now being sort-of banned. Also forget remixing existing cultural artifacts like older countercultural movements because that's just asking for an automated DMCA strike.

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