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Why are so many Star Trek/Sci Fi YouTubers far right? (startrek.website)
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Here's a few examples:

The Popcast (recently made a video warning of the "dangers" of the Barbie movie because it's feminist. Now Im going to go see it lol), Midnights Edge (general right wing conspiracy theories regarding media, occasional delving into new age crank too), Nerdrotic (thinks Hollywood is engineering a communist Red Guards plot to kill conservatives), The Critical Drinker (typical edgelord anti feminist), Dave Cullen (extreme anti feminist who believes in all the QAnon, Agenda 21 conspiracy theories).

And it goes on and on. I know there's popular left wing and liberal reviewers too, but for whatever reason so many of the ones I run into are far right. Is there some sort of draw for conservatives to geekdom or is something else going on?

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[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have. Oh god I have. Was watching star trek lore videos years ago for white noise etc. Pre pandemic. Ended up on some soulless gingers channel. The first few videos were okay. But as it kept going the amount of star trek content shrank. Eventually being a blurb about star trek tacked on to the front of a 30-60 minute culture war gamergate screed. Soon as I realized I hit eject and tried to bail. But the algorithm wasn't having that.

You literally have to go through and lobotomize your watch history. Or nuke it from orbit. And even then that's not always enough. Thankfully these days you have a way to individually tell YouTube that you don't like something and not to recommend it to you again. That wasn't always the case. Even with that that still doesn't always solve the problem.