In this video, he makes no mention of these trolls. or the fact that a lot of the times, making us lash out in retaliation, or making us commit suicide had become a sport for them during that period. This is further bolstered by the fact that he has made absolutely no mention of the rise of neofascism, and the alt-right pipeline, and has in fact featured PewDiePie in a positive light.

It should be mentioned, that this was the very era of the internet where even being featured on Encyclopedia Dramatica is a death sentence for your career. Yes, a transphobic, psychophobic, ableist, and homophobic wiki clone run by black hat hackers, convicted pedophiles and felons held this much power over queer people during that era.

It gets even worse when in the later parts of the video, you start to see where he was going with this. He's shown you the problem, he's made you mad by making victims of people who made the mistake of putting all their eggs in one basket, and...

...made scapegoats out of us, the very queer people who suffered the most during the supposed "Golden Age" of the internet. He pointed the finger at cancel culture, the very reason why the toxicity, that had been normalized and festering for so long, is finally being questioned and excised from online communities.

And of course, he actively dismisses articles, most of which are legitimate and backed by data, that talks about the rise of online racist, fascist movements like Gamergate, the AltRight, amd Alt Furry, etc, and the violence associated with it, because in his eyes, they're just sensationalism.

He lumps the queer folks writing about toxicity and how to fight them, the queer folks actively fighting neofascism in social media, with the corporate takeover in those same spaces. This is a dehumanization tactic, since it equates us with corporations, who everyone doesn't see as human, making it easy to demonize us.

Then he draws a line in the sand, by giving us and the corporations the label of "them" and the unwitting viewer the label of "You" and uses a very silver-tongued approach in doing so. Quite literally building an "Us vs them" narrative in the process, and priming his viewers to be hostile to queer folk.

The rest of the video is just neoliberal chud-ish fluff that waxes poetic about how people were more creative in the past and how it's good that monetization wasn't a thing back then.

(Read : "It's great that the only people who can be creative online are those who can afford it, and that the queer people who need online monetization of their work the most can't have that.")

What makes this far more terrifying than any old white potato fascist screaming about coloured or trans people is that this has the potential to recruit people, who otherwise show no signs of explicit fascist beliefs, into the alt right pipeline. And if you don't already know what to look for, chances are, with your guard down, and with the friendly sounding voice of the narrator, you would have already been suckered into the overarching narrative this video is trying to paint for you.

This video is quite literally, the start of the Alt-Right pipeline on YouTube. Stay vigilant and inform your friends!

@FreyaManibrandr of online content into the actual internet and various limited "internet-like" services like Prodigy. (There's still some great stuff that was lost forever when those went down)

@Nezumi oOh wow, I vaguely remember prodigy.