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TexasTowelie

(128,150 posts)
6. What did you expect?
Sat Jun 3, 2023, 10:27 AM
Jun 2023

I've been posting Luke Beasley's videos for over six months so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he does social and political analysis. At least he doesn't have loud annoying musical intros and outros, he avoids using either a bombastic or "doom and gloom" tone, there are no ads in his content, and he does relatively little self-promotion with only a sentence or two mentioning the other media outlets he uses besides YouTube. His approach of showing portions of videos and commenting isn't significantly different than what other video bloggers use such as Meidas Touch, Rebel HQ, and The Young Turks.

As far as comments about video titles, they have become a huge yawn to me. DU is not an English class or journalism class so I believe that people shouldn't dwell on something so trivial. We are all adults here so if you feel that a video has a clickbait title, then don't click on the video. Unless a video has an unusually long title, I make it clear in the title as to what source I am using be it a professional news organization, a social organization, comedian, or analyst so there shouldn't be any surprises there either. Personally, I'm more annoyed when someone comes up with a "creative" title that provides no significant information such as the creator or topic of the video. Therefore, a word like "humiliating" is a far less egregious violation of courtesy to other DUers than changing the title to satisfy a small contingent on DU.

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