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Jimmy Kimmel’s Return Monologue on Way to Breaking Host’s YouTube Views Record
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Does anybody else find it weird that we're boycotting one mega corp then using another mega corp's platform to view this?
Yes. The economy is impossible to navigate 100% of the time with your ethics fully intact. There are no perfect answers, only better ones.
I encourage you and everyone to avoid black-and-white thinking about this, and instead, invite a nuanced approach. Strive to make better decisions, but embrace the fact that perfection is impossible. Compromise doesn't undo your ethical fiber, but do be aware of the consequences of the choices you make.
Edit: I'm around if anyone wants a deeper convo about this.
i agree with your sentiment, but misunderstand the 'confusion' (definately wrong word, sorry) about the source being on yt.
of course one mega corp is going to utilise another mega corps infrastructure. these institutions must back each other, forcing customers to go to their friends store is better (and cheaper) for them in every imaginable sense.
i guess what the crux of my misunderstanding is why the source even matters. really the source is abc or whatever, so uploading it to peertube or archive.org is better anyway, right?
idk, let me know if i understood or not.
Because we boycotted Disney and caused financial harm to them, inciting a sliver of change then turned around and flooded YouTube with revenue from our views giving an equally terrible company money while they actively contribute to the same terrible ideologies as Disney does.
Bro just discovered capitalism. Are you going to throw out your phone too? Or do you draw the line at child labor and blood metals?
Yeah! I just threw my phone out! Thanks for the pro tip, bro!
Download the video file with yt-dlp and seed a torrent. Upload it to a peertube instance or host your own. Be the change you want to see.
Does anybody else find it obnoxious when people only point out problems for doomerism circlejerking but do nothing to be part of or spread awareness of the solution?
Where's the official video hosted? I forget.
That’s why you are being told how to download it and host it somewhere else.
It's almost as if we didn't have any other way to view it.
Not with that attitude! Someone else already linked the video, anyone could upload it to a Peertube then send us the link. Or heck, dailymotion. I hear it's back.
Welcome to dystopia.
Freedom of choice. Only the best for the land of the free
Feel free to cross-post the video to some Peertube instance and send us the link!
Where do I get the video?
I'm not boycotting Disney anymore. What they did was so far beyond the pale, it's definitely deserved it (and I did). But finding a mega corp that has directly defied Trump at all is refreshing and imo should be positively reinforced.
For the record, I'm giving them less than I did before. But incentives work and we need them to support basic rights.
You do you.
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But it only has 17 million views!
Don't get me wrong, that's a lot—but a drop in the ocean by YouTube standards. Kimmel's a lot less popular than I thought...
Now add all the people who watched it live.
Kimmel should've revealed the next GTA6 trailer to get more views. Bro is slacking fr
I usually don't watch his show (I prefer Stephen Colbert and John Oliver).
But I've just watched the whole return monologue, and subscribed to Jimmy's channel because of recent events.
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Will, having some controversy/talk around the show will do that for a show. Just like Colbert. Do you remember him?
"Low ratings"
Trump is a jackass, so he lies about everything. Kimmel has the second-highest viewership in the States, behind Colbert.
If we want to talk numbers, Trump's "The Apprentice" had a max 20 million viewers (peak was in season 1 😂), which took a nosedive each year for the entire run of the show.
Kimmel's YouTube channel has over 13 BILLION views with over 20 million subscribers and gaining over 100,000 new subscribers per month. Factor in viewers from TV and he destroyed Trump's show no contest.
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It had like 1.2 million views by 1 hour in after posting.
I also think the channel crossed the 21 million subscriber threshold overnight.
but Trump said he got cancelled due to poor ratings? is ABC stupid?
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