Well, dear readers, I never promised you a rose garden but I did promise you a rant and a rant you’re going to get because one simply needs to air this publicly. Every day (or evening) when I visit the Tube of You I am greeted with a page of suggested video especially designed for the likes of me. Only 90% of them are NOT designed for the likes of me. But I have discovered a few really and truly noxious channels that are to the political left, but which are pure click-bait horse manure, designed to get the channel owner money, a monetized channel. I’m going to talk about the worst of them, the worst offender, and a serial liar the likes of which puts George Santos (a person he continually criticizes for his lies) to shame. But let’s start with this guy’s “persona.” He has a truly obnoxious, whiny voice, he likes to start each video (and he does five or six a day) with things like, “My goodness, folks, today was a really bad day for ol’ Donnie” or whoever today was a really bad day. I take it this fellow is Canadian, he looks completely ill-at-ease on these videos, and shockingly, this person has 279,000 subscribers and his videos get tens of thousands of views, and he probably makes his living from the money this brings in and all that is fine. If morons want to follow this guy, if they want to contribute to his monetized channel or send him money via PayPal, all fine. But here is what is not fine and here is what has caused me to take him on, leaving a comment on every video I see, and then reporting him to YouTube because it should not be allowed. Are you ready? Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy night.
What this fellow does is create click-bait headlines to get you to click through to the channel’s video. These click-bait headlines, every single one of them that I’ve seen, are complete and utter LIES. Not a word of truth in them. LIES. Blatant LIES. And then, when you watch the actual video he says things like today we’re going to talk about this and that and other things, then he’ll get to the point about the headline, which he cagily avoids saying anything about. Then we get a lot of clips – half his videos are clips from news organizations, and none of these clips have a single thing to do with the click-bait headline of LIES. Then, in the final minute or less, he finally goes back to the topic of the headline, but it’s always BS – HIS projection of things that might happen, could happen in Fantasyland. In other words, while he skirts the subject of the headline, he never actually talks about what he’s said in the headline and I’m not sure how YouTube allows that kind of misinformation in a headline, click-bait or not. And his loyal followers who make with the comments NEVER bring up the lying headline. I could project that it makes one wonder if they’re not stooge accounts praising this guy every day – same accounts every day. So, let me give you a few examples of his headlines – I think you’ll find them amusing – these are all recent, but he’s been doing this for a VERY long time, just as he’s been saying ol’ Donnie will soon be taken down, only ol’ Donnie has NEVER been taken down legally in his entire life. Anyway, here we go, these are all from today or this week: POLICE JUST DUG UP BURIED BOXES OF TRUMP STOLEN DOCUMENTS – no, they police haven’t dug up anything and what he’s talking about is Mark Meadows MAYBE having documents buried somewhere – in other words, HIS fantasy about Meadows. TRUMP KICKED OFF FOX NEWS DURING LIVE INTERVIEW – no, he wasn’t. The “live interview” turns out to be that Rupert Murdoch did live phone interviews with people, including Trump – of course, he hasn’t a clew whether that’s actually true because it’s always sources say, but in any case, he wasn’t kicked off Fox News during a live interview, nor was he kicked off a phone call with Murdoch. POLICE FIND PERVERTED TRUMP PICTURES, HIS LIFE IS OVER. No, the police didn’t find anything and in this video he doesn’t even go near that headline at all, he simply ignores it at the end. Oh, and he says Trump’s life is over almost daily.
Some more good ones: KEVIN MCCARTHY CAUGHT IN DISGUSTING SEX SCANDAL. No, Mr. McCarthy, awful as he is, has not been caught in any disgusting sex scandal and in the final ten seconds of the video what the guy says is there are rumors and true or not, McCarthy can’t catch a break. You see how this is, right? COPS MAKE SHOCKING TRUMP CRIMINAL CHARGES ANNOUNCEMENT. No, they didn’t. His explanation? They might, at some point, bring charges, maybe, who knows? TRUMP JUST THREATENED TO MURDER FANI WALLIS. In the video, he talks about everything BUT that, then in the final ten seconds, he brings up the name Fani Wallis, but nothing about Trump threatening to murder her – because he didn’t. JARED KUSHNER COMMITS DISTURBING SUICIDE MOMENTS AGO. Well, no, he didn’t. He also says Kushner just fled the country – that’s true if “just” is 2017 and you remove the word “flee”. LAUREN BOEBERT TAKEN DOWN BY DIRTY INTERNET VIDEO TONIGHT. Look, Lauren Boebert is awful, but no, she was not taken down by a dirty internet video tonight or any other night. Wouldn’t you think a simple Google search would reveal that bombshell news? You’d think. That’s just a small sampling and it’s been going on for a long time, although the click-bait LYING headlines have gotten worse over time. Does he care that he’s being called out by me (and a few others, finally)? Nope. Not one whit. This is the worst kind of monetization, where you use click-bait LIES to rope people in to view your videos. If you’d like to know more, I invite you to search any of those headlines or his name: Christo Aivalas. End of rant, although I could go on for HOURS.
And now, I know I never promised you a rose garden, but now that the rosy rant is done, I always promise you some notes. Currently, I am sitting here like so much fish, having just finished watching an HBO documentary focusing on child actors. It’s mostly kids from the past three decades, save for one old woman, Baby Peggy, who was a kid star in the silent era and who lived to 101 years of age. The kid stars in the documentary are Henry Thomas, Evan Rachel Wood, Todd Bridges, Milla Jovovich, Wil Wheaton, and Mara Wilson. I think the name of it is Show Biz Kids or something like that. It’s nicely done and I enjoyed it and hearing the tales told.
Yesterday was short. That is because I didn’t fall asleep until five, was up at six-thirty for a few minutes, back to sleep, up at eleven, back to sleep and not up again until almost four-thirty. Eleven hours of sleep, all told, and I guess I needed that, but I can’t do that again, there’s just too much to do. Thankfully, other than one irritating series of texts, which I missed, it was going to be a light day. I never left the house, never even got dressed. I just answered a LOT of e-mails, forwarded more orders, called PayPal about the fact that payment notifications forwarded to me (i.e. orders) are coming through without any information – missing names and addresses, or missing what they actually ordered, which means I have to go to the site and cut and paste this stuff, and that adds way too much time to doing things. She didn’t know WHAT I was talking about, was getting stupid advice from whoever she was talking about and then blamed OUR shopping cart for the problem. I asked her how could it be OUR shopping cart when we have many orders for the exact same title come through fine. I said we’re not changing anything so if some are coming through the way they’ve always come through, then it has to be on your end. She then said I had to file a ticket on their site about it. They won’t talk to you directly, the tech section, until you’ve done so, so tomorrow I will do so.
I made a frozen dinner for food and ate it – not bad, a cheesy chicken, broccoli and rice thing. Not filling at all, but only 380 calories. Later I had two Eggo waffles for another 350 calories, and a spoonful of peanut butter, 200 more, which is still slightly under 1000 calories, so good. By then, it was already evening and time for the documentary.
Today, I’ll absolutely be up by eleven, then I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll hopefully pick up some packages, I’ll eat, perhaps another frozen dinner and then snacks, I now have yet another little bit to write on the project with David Wechter, just a few lines that I don’t really want to write because I think what’s there is fine, and he’ll hopefully finish his stuff – rather than doing that, he’s been editing the big changes I made, but I just want to get everything done so we can edit together and get this thing back where it needs to go. Then I have to read a play. At some point, I’ll watch, listen, and relax.
The rest of the week and weekend is more of the same, and I think tomorrow I have a late lunch meeting somewhere.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up by eleven, do whatever needs doing, hopefully pick up packages, eat, write a few lines, read a play, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your thoughts on today’s rant and the channels that do that stuff or anyone who has to LIE to get people to read or view things? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, having fulfilled the promise of a rant.