YouTuber MrBeast’s style philanthropy is obliged to be a noisy spectacle — one that attracts massive audiences, brand deals, and merchandise sales, all of which can then be funnelled into the next grand philanthropic gesture.| ABC Religion & Ethics
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Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - The YouTube Apparatus| Cambridge Core
Under authenticity, the value of a thing decreases as more and more people like it. This is clearly no longer the case.| subpixel.space
Jimmy Donaldson dropped out of a community college near his home in North Carolina at the age of 18 to crack one of the mysteries of modern life: what makes a video become a viral sensation on social media? Together with four similarly obsessed friends, he spent up to 20 hours a day studying the secrets of YouTube hits after becoming hooked posting footage playing games. The nerds analysed everything intensively: the algorithms, camera angles, lighting, pacing, thumbnails, viewer drop-off dat...| UnHerd
Audience Theory and Quantitative Aesthetics| kevinmunger.substack.com
This doesn't have anything to do with Wordle...or does it| kevinmunger.substack.com
