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QueerDuck

(2,575 posts)
Sat Jul 11, 2026, 09:06 AM Saturday

Progressive YouTubers HATE This One Simple Trick! (Shocking Media Secrets Revealed!) 😱🔥 [View all]

Is THIS the Shocking Reason Progressive YouTube is Officially DEAD?! (What They Aren't Telling You! 👇

IT'S OVER!! Why I Had to UNFOLLOW MeidasTouch and Really American IMMEDIATELY!! 🛑👀

Every day, I continue to lose what little respect (and hope) that remained for progressive Youtube channels. I’ve reached my breaking point with "progressive" independent YouTube news. I recall that many people, like myself, turned to channels like Really American, MeidasTouch, and their affiliates (and many others) because we were tired of corporate MSM treating politics like a sport and prioritizing ad revenue over substance.

Independent creators promised to be different. Instead, they have become the very thing they used to criticize. They have built their own commercialized outrage farms, enslaved to the dictates of the YouTube algorithm rather than the pursuit of objective truth.

Just scroll through these channels on any given day, the manipulation is glaringly obvious:

--- Algorithmic Churn: Sensationalized, AI-generated thumbnail photos... bright yellow arrows pointing at nothing.

--- "Betteridge" Headlines: Provocative question headlines (the objective answer is always a resounding "no.'')

--- Fluff and Padding: Taking a concise 2-minute press release or court filing and s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g it into a repetitive, padded 10-minute video purely to qualify for a mid-roll advertisement placement.

This is poison!! When progressive media resorts to exaggeration, hyperbole, and manufactured urgency for the sake of clicks, it fundamentally insults the intelligence of the progressive base. It dumbs-us-down. It makes us look as gullible and stupid and as easily manipulated as the MAGA cult.

By constantly dialing up the outrage baiting to ELEVEN over every minor development, these channels create a boy-who-cried-wolf scenario. It erodes our media literacy, and it mimics the worst bad-faith echo chambers of the right, and ultimately breeds deep cynicism and distrust.

So I choose to vote against this SLOP by scrolling away and not giving them the "click" or the "like" or the subscription. We cannot expect these platforms to get better if we continue to feed the beast and take the bait.

Not that these channels would have noticed or cared, but I've now unsubscribed from them all. This won't change their tactics, but I feel better knowing that I don't support it. (Though YouTube still keeps suggesting that crap to me, and I'll keep clicking "not interested" and "don't recommend channel" in response. In time, I hope, my YT feed will become more interesting and less insulting.)

Are any other DUers feeling this profound burnout with progressive YouTube? How are you curating your media diet to stay informed without losing your mind?

BY THE WAY... BE SURE TO LEAVE ME A LIKE... OR SUBSCRIBE... AND POST YOUR COMMENTS BELOW! AND DON'T FORGET ABOUT MY PATREON PAGE WHERE YOU CAN GET EXCLUSIVE SLOP, RANTING AND NAVEL-GAZING!
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K and R FalloutShelter Saturday #1
On DU we can trash any post that contains the word "bombshell" FakeNoose Saturday #13
So, more Cronkite and less carnival barking? Baitball Blogger Saturday #2
Preferably.... paleotn Saturday #23
It's always just "one simple trick " ornotna Saturday #3
Yes... absolutely! You get it! QueerDuck Saturday #4
I haven't clicked on a Midas Touch video in a long time Ms. Toad Saturday #5
I dislike their tabloid approach DinahMoeHum Saturday #26
Like the stage collapsed at the County Fair tag line? Bengus81 Saturday #30
It's not only "progressive" YouTube channels TVguyCards Saturday #6
You should post dweller Saturday #11
List of these Channels if interested 3825-87867 Saturday #17
I am guilty of clicking on Meidas Touch every night Rastapopoulos Saturday #18
I don't click on the anything with those headlines...LOL LeftInTX Saturday #46
Good list! A_Woman_from_MI Saturday #32
Nice list. I would add... masmdu Saturday #34
Wow Cirsium Saturday #7
lol I know these terms mean nothing but I would definitely not call Really American or Meidas Touch "progressive" WhiskeyGrinder Saturday #8
It's entertainment, not news. Of course, YouTube content creators are only concerned with the money Raftergirl Saturday #9
Well said, you! 🫂 QueerDuck Saturday #10
BOOM! IrishAfricanAmerican Saturday #12
Oh absolutely PatSeg Saturday #14
Same for me, with few exceptions I'd rather read the story than listen to the dumb video FakeNoose Saturday #27
Yeah, I've experienced the PatSeg Saturday #35
If you read Cory Doctorow's book, "Enshittification," dlk Saturday #15
There are still some some gems in the crap. Shipwack Saturday #16
I do like Aaron Parnas for straight news. He doesn't do hyperbole. Amaryllis Saturday #19
Agreed BlueKota Saturday #54
Wow - a lot of determination to knock down progressives - TBF Saturday #20
RIGHT. Let us Liberals and Progressives B.See Saturday #56
I dont care about likes and I dont read comments on utube because I 've known for years its a game. I watch content Cheezoholic Saturday #21
I won't click on video links with scare headlines. mn9driver Saturday #22
I don't particularly care for those channels production style and I don't watch them very often for that reason ToxMarz Saturday #24
My approach is to not subscribe... WestMichRad Saturday #25
Yes... I didn't realize that my early subscription was helping to feed the monster... QueerDuck Saturday #28
Yeah, it's my defense mechanism WestMichRad Saturday #36
I have stopped watching Meidas Touch as well Bev54 Saturday #29
Meidas Touch posted 14 videos in the past 24 hours Sympthsical Saturday #31
That many makes me wonder if... WestMichRad Saturday #38
Doubt that but he's banking serious coin and keeps posting and posting Bengus81 Saturday #40
The thumbnails are frequently AI Sympthsical Saturday #41
I follow some of the black content creators Keepthesoulalive Saturday #33
I like coachd... QueerDuck Saturday #37
Definitely Keepthesoulalive Saturday #39
Frankly, most of them suck. Behind the Aegis Saturday #42
Three cheers for pet videos! ❤️🥰🥳 QueerDuck Saturday #43
Exactly. They're profiting while trump is in office IcyPeas Saturday #44
I watch YouTube for entertainment, it's more interesting than more than an hour of MSM. GoodRaisin Saturday #45
...lately 9 out of 10 videos are labeled "All Hell Breaks loose..... joanbarnes Saturday #47
I'm a YouTube content creator. Wednesdays Saturday #48
I absolutely agree! Trueblue Texan Saturday #49
Jack was a disappointment for me ... QueerDuck Saturday #50
Pro tip canetoad Saturday #51
So, it's just progressives doing this? ... NeoTrajan Saturday #52
Clickbait is so EASY. Look at all the comments, engagement, and outrage my OP generated. QueerDuck Sunday #58
They irritate the crap out of me. BlueKota Saturday #53
If I see a yellow arrow, I ignore mcar Saturday #55
OMFG, yes! Clickbait bullshit is ruining everything! Initech Saturday #57
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