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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
I've just switched over to watch Sky News' feed on YouTube. The allow chat, which for a serious news organisation is absolutely wild to me.
And the chatters are absolutely insane. Not in a good way. There's no attempt to discuss anything, just people spamming "ππ REFORM IS RISING ππ" and "π₯π₯ Labour Forever π₯π₯π₯π₯". And weirdest of all, many variations on "netherite helmet trim".
Wtf does netherite helmet trim mean?
Minecraft.
Reform have an online army that swarms comment threads. Not sure how many of them are based in Russia.
Oh yeah I worked that out thanks to Google. But I don't get the connection to the election, or why so many people were spamming it.
Maybe because of the fake Farage playing minecraft videos?
Honestly not very sure what else it would be.
Trolls I suppose.
An unsatisfying answer, even if it is likely correct.
Memecraft
the proper way to watch youtube chat is to click on the x.
Ha! Ok that got a serious laugh from me.
But honestly, other YouTube live streams I've watched have actually had really great chats. Lots of fun discussion with other chatters or between chat and the streamer. I wouldn't expect a news org to be engaging with the chat themselves, but I would have hoped that chat could talk amongst themselves in a civil manner. I'm kinda disappointed how they're not.
i'm actually only half serious since there are a lot of channels i watch that are great communities too. just not the political ones :)