So, viloence-advocate Carlos Maza of Vox gathered together an outrage mob that successfully bullied YouTube into creating another adpocalypse, wiping out monetization of whole channels. This was clearly aimed at his political opponents in the middle and on the right… but as with any fanatic, zealot or terrorist, collateral damage was perfectly acceptable. One of the channels that has been demonetized is one I hadn’t heard of till today, “Stardust Vibes.” As the name might suggest, it’s kinda Newagey, but it certainly seems inoffensive and quite possibly of interest to all kinds of people all across the political spectrum: mostly it’s hours and hours of nature sounds. Beaches, rain forests, streams, that sort of thing, with the occasional addition of some of that “Music From Some Guys In Space.” Honestly, the sort of thing a lot of people would’ve actually paid good money to get on CD-ROM not so long ago.
Quacking ducks are *clearly* tools of cis-het white supremacist patriarchy. Rain? Fascist.
Let this be a lesson, in case somehow you’d missed it before: the fanatics will happily burn it all down for a little bit of profit or a little bit of spite.
This is why we can’t have anything nice.