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YouTube and the #deathcult of “Independent” Media
Over the last ten years, we’ve all been spending more and more time on #YouTube. And maybe you’ve noticed something strange: many of the channels you once thought of as independent are no longer independent at all. They’ve been quietly bought up by private equity firms with billions in backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Disney, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone - the usual #mainstreaming priests of the #deathcult.
Channels like Task & Purpose, Vice, Veritasium, Donut Media, Simple History, […]