Since I'm also in the never banned club, the most controversial thing I ever said on Reddit, based entirely on community reactions, was probably "americans perceive everyone outside america as sub-humans who are beneath self-determination, like they should be the ones to choose how we do everything".
Sounds like at least among lefties this should have been an uncontroversial statement, but gods I made some gringos mad on that day.
Never banned. Purged previous accounts to start anew a couple of times. Plus I'm still there.
Freeman went into a massive career shift after the Half Life games ended...
[Crying intensifies]
One of these days I gotta try a Linux without SystemD, just to see if it was worth all the fuss. When I started my Linux journey SystemD was already the default on most distros normal people would use (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Suse, etc.) and I just never bothered exploring, despite all the bad things (tm) said about SystemD in Linux forums.
Wrestling against ADHD to write my last college thing.
You are not immune to ~~propaganda~~ naked ragebait from assholes who just want to stir shit
Off the top of my head -- There is also td-win and voat (which are like, Reddit for neo-nazis) and hexbear (which is like, Reddit for leftists who lack the social skills to be around even other leftists)
/shrug If you're just doing youtube for the sake of doing youtube, you can do whatever you want. Any audience that comes to you will be your audience and you'll probably not make much money but maybe you'll make a bit of it.
But if you want youtube to replace your dayjob, then yeah kinda?
And like, most content creators talk about being horribly burnt out and overworked. They quit their nine-to-fives to have YouTube as their main gig, and it starts out as a labour of love, until the bills start coming and the channel starts being more and more of a business, and then they start working insane hours and become slaves to the analytics graphs and (...)
Short version?
Capitalism.
Long version, youtube rewards watch time most of all. Youtubers are underpaid and have to try and squeeze as much from their channel as they can if that's their dayjob. And in the "optimise everything until it is no longer fun" spirit of capitalistic entertainment, youtubers have realised that around 20 minutes is the ideal length for most content (unless you're in a specific niche for very longform stuff).
And while I do enjoy Alec's general rambling and playing around with the gadgets he educates us about -- Yeah. I can see it as the byproduct of youtube culture that it is.
Yeah I'm kinda used to it. As said before, in my country (Brazil) the power grid is... It depends on which state you are in. It's 120 in my state, but directly south of us is one that uses 240, and to the north two that use 120. I'm used to reading labels and flicking voltage switches.