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[pacu mom]

It seems as though the more beautiful the area, the more varied and destructive the natural forces lurking just around the corner seem to be. California is a perfect example. The image of a bunch of children huddling under school desks during an earthquake is superimposed in my mind with another image, from an old B-grade sci-fi movie in which the protagonist is scuba-diving, looking for treasure...as he swims through downtown L.A., submerged under 100 feet of water.

Drop cover and hold no longer applies universally. It depends on the building

 

[Ogertron3000]

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Sorry, I probably worded that poorly.
I didn’t mean “I don’t believe “ as in you were lying, I meant it as “I’m shocked they could make so much money from a harmless but dodgy YouTube channel”

 

[Ogertron3000]

Hello; Never did look at any of the videos Wolf posted so cannot say about the content. I grew tired of so many times he posted a video that i eventually put his posts on ignore. He became the only member i have on ignore.
I think there must be a way to "tweak" the algorithms, but I am thinking such tools are available only to the moderators/bosses of a site. I have been hearing more about this lately since Twitter changed hands. I have never used twitter myself but seems lots of folks have.
I hear about shadow banning and some other terms. Seems there are several ways a member's tweets can be maneuvered. There is outright banning so no tweets show up at all.
There is a way a person's tweets only show up to a limited audience of followers. Not sure the term for that. Guess that makes you think you stuff is getting out but actually only a few can see it.
There are other ways I do not yet understand but appear to have happened. An example is some of the talking head celebrities on some TV shows saying that after twitter changed ownership, they suddenly had many thousands more followers all of a sudden. Guess somehow that was a tool the mods had.

A mod on this site wrote to me he can do anything he wants with this site. May be some of you have been around a few years back and can recall some things that happened. One was a test of some sort which was designed to allow only one group to respond/post for a while and then later only another group to post /respond.

I think the mods of search engine sites can fix it so favored responses wind up first in line and others are buried or even suppressed.

But to your point I doubt a user such as Wolf has ability to use such tools. Seems the web is indeed rigged at top levels.

I hear ads on the radio all the time for what they call search engine optimisation experts. Apparently these people know how to work things so your company name will be a top hit and on the first page of google when someone searches for example “removalist in Melbourne “
No idea how they do it but I’ve been hearing the ads for a long time and apparently their methods work.
Possibly there’s a similar way to manipulate YouTube, thinking about it there’s probably even a YouTube video that will show you how to do it!
I also know of a service that lets you purchase followers for Instagram and Twitter so you can look more popular than you really are, they even drip feed them to your account so it doesn’t look suspicious when you suddenly get 10000 new followers overnight.
As I constantly tell my wife “treat everything on the Internet asa scam until you can prove that it isn’t”

 

[pacu mom]

Sorry, I probably worded that poorly.
I didn’t mean “I don’t believe “ as in you were lying, I meant it as “I’m shocked they could make so much money from a harmless but dodgy YouTube channel”

Pretty crazy, but I can see why some not so bright people have YouTube channels hoping to strike it rich. Unfortunately, you need more than a channel to make big money...you must produce content that people want to view

PSY with his Gangnam Style was the first YouTuber to have over a billion views. He made millions.

To start generating income one needs at least 1,000 subscribers. The successful ones are
compelled to keep producing more videos. In many cases the quality and content seems to decline with "need" to keep generating videos. My nephew's 8 yr old son wants to be an "influencer" when he grows up YIKES!!!

 

[RD.]

It's not just YouTube, there are plenty of sites where idjits pay to view odd things. I saw one young gal admitting that she sold her farts in a jar. People lining up for that treat. Brings back my days of selling on eBay. I had a large following, first red star seller in Canada. I sold pretty much anything that folks wanted, including enema bags. Used ones brought the biggest $$$. The world is funged up.

 

[RD.]

And I'm ok if the PTB delete my content here. Lol

 

[esoxlucius]

I saw one young gal admitting that she sold her farts in a jar.

Were the jars of her farts reasonably priced, or were they over inflated!! Lol.

I bet if she inadvertently followed through whilst trying to squeeze one out she could double her money, lol.

There are, without doubt, some very very strange people on this planet.

 

[jjohnwm]

And I'm ok if the PTB delete my content here. Lol

In this case...so am I...

 

[jjohnwm]

Were the jars of her farts reasonably priced, or were they over inflated!! Lol.

I bet if she inadvertently followed through whilst trying to squeeze one out she could double her money, lol.

There are, without doubt, some very very strange people on this planet.

I had to just "like" your post...because there is no option that includes a face displaying the kind of horrified amazement I actually felt...

 

[krichardson]

"There's one thing that you never bounce back from and that's putting your hands on a woman."...said UFC honcho Dana White years ago in a statement....fast forward and video of White doing just that to his wife at a recent gathering in Mexico has surfaced and TMZ was all over it lol.
White has a new venture in the works
The Power Slap League.