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Post by robeiae on Apr 4, 2018 8:22:51 GMT -5
Shooting at YouTube HQ yesterday: www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43638221Who is the shooter? Apparently, a vegan bodybuilder named Nasim Najafi Aghdam, of Iranian decent, who was an active supporter of PETA and who seems to have had a problem with "the state" (for destroying family values) and with pop culture, but was nonetheless furious at YouTube because she wasn't earning enough in ad revenues from her online videos. Okaaaay... |
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Post by nighttimer on Apr 4, 2018 10:19:53 GMT -5
It's not so much as it's an "okaaaay..." thing as it is a "demonetizing" thing and for your small YouTube content creator, it was a major hit to their wallet. Now, I don't know how much $$$ Ms. Aghdam lost from last year's initial change, but some of the channels I subscribe to have griped loudly over YouTube's content crackdown, fair use of movie clips and the demonetization which has wreaked havoc on their income stream. None of which justifies going on the YouTube campus and shooting at strangers, but people snap far more violently for far less provocation. |
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Post by Vince524 on Apr 4, 2018 11:54:56 GMT -5
This sounds like more of what we used to call 'going postal' type of things. I've heard that her boyfriend might have been a victim, but not sure if that was an erroneous report or what. It might factor in. I mean, it's hard to believe if she had a boyfriend there and she shot him that it didn't factor in somehow.
I don't know if we'll hear a lot about this past a few days. We're probably only talking about it because of the connection to Youtube to begin with.
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Post by robeiae on Apr 4, 2018 12:12:33 GMT -5
It's not so much as it's an "okaaaay..." thing as it is a "demonetizing" thing and for your small YouTube content creator, it was a major hit to their wallet. My point is that she was demonizing pop culture, while simultaneously depending on the same--apparently--to make money (oh, and she was also complaining about people who "only care for personal short term profits"). So yeah, it's an "okaaaay" thing imo. She was a dumb-ass and a hypocrite who snapped because her dumb-assedness and hypocrisy weren't making her enough money. |
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Post by nighttimer on Apr 4, 2018 13:13:50 GMT -5
This sounds like more of what we used to call 'going postal' type of things. I've heard that her boyfriend might have been a victim, but not sure if that was an erroneous report or what. It might factor in. I mean, it's hard to believe if she had a boyfriend there and she shot him that it didn't factor in somehow. Aghdam did not know any of the people she shot. Earlier reports that her boyfriend was one of the victims were erroneous. It's not so much as it's an "okaaaay..." thing as it is a "demonetizing" thing and for your small YouTube content creator, it was a major hit to their wallet. My point is that she was demonizing pop culture, while simultaneously depending on the same--apparently--to make money (oh, and she was also complaining about people who "only care for personal short term profits"). So yeah, it's an "okaaaay" thing imo. You've never watched YouTube, huh?  It's full of vlogs and programs whose express purpose is to demonize pop culture and get paid to do it. Music and movie critics make money to dog out pop culture, so what's your point? Thank you for the piercing insights into Nasim Najafi Aghdam's true motivations, Columbo.  " A dumb-ass who snapped because her dumb-assedness" is SUCH a brilliant observation. Barney Fife, Forrest Gump and Larry the Cable Guy couldn't sum it up any better! |
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Post by Vince524 on Apr 4, 2018 13:35:17 GMT -5
People lose $ all the time. There's more there there than that. It might not be YouTube specific, as opposed to personal stressors that caused her to snap. Usually, when people go killing like this, there's a stressor that triggers it. That's not an excuse, but that's the normal pattern.
As far as You Tube, I go on to sometimes watch various KISS vids and some of those superhero battle things, like Superman vs Thor, or Batman Vs Darth Vader. Those are cool.
Hopefully, YouToube doesn't piss off any of those peeps, cause they'll do a lot more damage.
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Post by robeiae on Apr 4, 2018 14:39:39 GMT -5
You've never watched YouTube, huh? It's full of vlogs and programs whose express purpose is to demonize pop culture and get paid to do it. Music and movie critics make money to dog out pop culture, so what's your point? I have watched YouTube and my point was simple and made in the initial post. In one moment you disagree with it--for no real reason, that I can see, other than to pick a fight with me--and in the next you want to write it off as obvious. You should pick a position and stick with it I'm pretty sure everyone who isn't you got my point in the initial post. And I thought it an obvious point, true enough. But hey, anything to fire off some cheap insults, right? |
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It's full of vlogs and programs whose express purpose is to demonize pop culture and get paid to do it. Music and movie critics make money to dog out pop culture, so what's your point?
"A dumb-ass who snapped because her dumb-assedness" is SUCH a brilliant observation. Barney Fife, Forrest Gump and Larry the Cable Guy couldn't sum it up any better!