How Some News Sites Write Articles

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[@OneTopic]

i’m surprised the mr news site didn’t have the forced cookies and pop-up ads!

[@AndrewCheshire]

Yeah, that's something Ryan usually slips in there lol

[@YourPhysicsSimulator]

Forcing people to accept cookies is tight!

[@Musa41811]

And request disabling adblockers + tell you how in reading it you used up 1/3 free articles a month lol, as if anyone would pray for the crap journalism of today.

[@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472]

And click bait. But the McPizza seems like click bait already.

[@connorwithanor613]

A wild OT appeared!

[@Croz89]

The news can never say people are "mildly annoyed" or "a little disappointed" at anything. It's always enraged, upset, hysterical, some over the top emotion. They don't seem to think people are capable of a negative (or even positive) reaction that is more moderate.

[@3nertia]

Because that's how they've programmed people to react ;)

[@markpostgate2551]

"Up in arms" used to be a favourite. "Fans are up in arms" = 2 negative comments on a message board.

[@nfzeta128]

It's how the whole outrage debacle came about. Articles exaggerating people's responses to things or how many ppl responded negatively to it and causing outrage about those exaggerations. It's also a lot of the so called cancel culture.

[@TryHard-tr8mn]

They do that intentionally. Saying "people are outraged over x" gets more attention than "handful of dudes on twitter are mildly annoyed over x".

[@iunnor]

The money’s in polarization.

[@pontiffsulyvahn3898]

My personal favorite articles: "Someone SLAMMED someone else!" "Scientists say this horrible thing MIGHT happen at SOME POINT!" "This person felt an EMOTION when something HAPPENED!" "This random person who isn't famous or important at all was RUDE!" "This person said an OPINION!"

[@narwhallbean]

AN OPINION THE HORROR!!!!!!!!

[@miraj6803]

Oh god a person felt an emotion. Now that’s tragic…. Anyway about that opinion….

[@ireallyreallyhategoogle]

In actual news: Floods, fires, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, landslides, pandemic, epidemics, murders, rapes, mass shootings, wars, abuse of power, corruption, frauds, scams, identity theft and much much more.

[@imdankarlin]

Talk show host DESTROYS political opinion or public figure.

[@BigFunnyGiant]

What happened next will surprise you!

[@YourPhysicsSimulator]

When I am feeling stupid I read website news articles and I regain my confidence once more

[@conradflanagan5003]

But you sacrifice your faith in humanity in the process. The law of equivalent exchange strikes again.

[@mr_indie_fan]

When im feeling stupid i take a look at twitter and remind myself how god awful 5% of humanity is compared to me

[@YourPhysicsSimulator]

@@conradflanagan5003 Unfortunately losing faith in humanity is super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@alaforada8009]

Your last video looks cool

[@Aurora_Animates]

@@alaforada8009 Cool thumbnail indeed anyways.

[@PKSparkxxDH]

The ending really put those shitty news site articles into perspective...lol

[@mikekasich836]

"ALL THE SCIENTISTS say x" "ok ALL of the scientists we carefully selected"

[@matlohn9381]

​@@mikekasich836 which scientists are we suppose to believe then?

[@Effect_FX]

@@matlohn9381 Can't go wrong with what the common consensus among researchers relevant to the field of science being discussed.

[@kooldudematt1]

@@Effect_FX Except for the fact that science is not determined by consensus, it's determined by reproducible methods and facts!

[@matlohn9381]

@@Effect_FX whats the general consensus with climate change

[@Goat-on-a-Stick]

This video is as real as I want the news to be.

[@cokemillion]

No news site is as real as the onion.

[@Drakuba]

im confused with that statement. Hey... you should make animated video about it... just sayan

[@virtuallyreal5849]

Goat-on-a-stick-! -Makes pretty cool/weird animations…

[@tianeshadrayton]

Clever

[@tomsmith7207]

Time to grow up and embrace reality folks. Reality is hard and man life, it’s even harder. Let’s deal with it.

[@DeviantOllam]

DAAAAMN, Ryan is always delivering the realness, but today he woke up and said I'm going to slap some people directly in the FACE with it!

[@wlb277]

Oh, slapping people in the face with realness is TIGHT!

[@simsim4910]

Im kinda reading the last part in his voice

[@nenmaster5218]

This Reminds me of Hbomberguys videos on Sargons Ability to read Surveys, and his video on Wokle-Brands.

[@kaiwilson5628]

Right in the back of his frickin’ face.

[@glacieractivity]

You are not wrong. And I am in the process of developing an existential crisis that can slap me hard even though I am used to that as an adult. Here I am reacting to it online

[@altaccount9351]

This is why I get all my news through visions in my sleep. I'd elaborate further, but I've got to prepare for the first giraffe flood

[@OrionDoesThings]

How's that preparing going lol

[@altaccount9351]

@@OrionDoesThings The boat is complete, but not quite giraffe proof

[@torva360]

Giraffes aren't real

[@xtramaze-musicmaster9165]

what the fuck is a giraffe flood

[@sarahberkner]

I think it was actually a flood giraffe, a giant giraffe made of rushing water.

[@274pacific]

100% accurate. I don't remember the news story, but I was reading one about a "controversy" and it dawned on me that it was 3 random tweets, from nobodies, that the author had dug up to justify their "people are saying" BS.

[@iambicpentakill]

They also like saying that "The Internet" is furious/aroused/whatever, like it is a single entity instead of millions of different people who think different things.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

*The news:* Being just vague enough to make people both pissed and worried is SUPER easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@icarue993]

The amount of people that just see the video title and react in comments is a lot...

[@sourwitch2340]

@@icarue993 they might've even watched the video, but while the meme is funny it becomes boring if every comment's written in the same joke format, especially if all it does is rely on the meme to be funny while making a joke that could've done without it, rather than seeing the meme add something fresh to a newer joke

[@TheRibottoStudios]

@@icarue993 I have seen the video thank you, and I'm just kinda basing this comment on what I myself have seen when it comes to online news sites and twitter. GOD twitter is just a hell hole.

[@icarue993]

@@TheRibottoStudios Oh, no judment on YOU. I was judging a lot of other commenters in YT (or crunchyroll). They are like: "I haven't seen the video... but..." and they complaint about something that is addressed as soon as you play play.

[@TheRibottoStudios]

@@icarue993 ohhhhhhhh yeah THAT'S super annoying lol. Like if you haven't seen the video how can you form an opinion on it lol

[@user-io7ck7zz6g]

As an article written by a news site, I can confirm this is exactly how this is like.

[@icarue993]

About the views or about distracting people from important, sad, but not very reactive ongoing news?

[@chuckybang]

So, you are an article for a news site that has gained sentience?

[@MrPlow-jc4cr]

@@chuckybang He's a sentence who gained sentience

[@zoppletee5400]

​@@icarue993 the answer is yes, the news article told me so and told me to not ask questions

[@philippeamon7271]

EXPOSED: Article reveals all in her newest book, Headline-gate, naming names and blaming blames on News Site and their corrupt, satanic business practices and doll-beheading rituals (probably)

[@worldwideinterests1]

You know Ryan has provided plenty of social commentary over the years but this really captures a lot of what's wrong today.

[@ItsVenti]

News articles be like: "it's time to lie I decided"

[@lauragriffin6512]

100% accurate. And the readers are like: "I'll never stop believing the lies, I decided."

[@ItsVenti]

@@lauragriffin6512 then the people who believe the lies get angry and want certain people to be put in a room

[@lauragriffin6512]

@@ItsVenti 👍

[@MAGAMAN]

@@lauragriffin6512 Realizing the "news" lies to you on a daily basis is more than most people can handle, so they pretend it's the truth.

[@Benke01]

- Lying is Super easy. Barely an inconvenience. - Oh, really? - Yeah, there will never be any consequences. Just write another lying article to keep people distracted about that the previous article was a lie. - But what happen if they discover that article is also a lie? - Just lie again! - Oh, laying is tight! - That's not what we're talking about.

[@squishmac]

I love the structure of this video 😂 Taking the whole runtime to explain why these "news articles" are dumb, but then hitting us with the punchline explaining exactly why people want them

[@Name-ru1kt]

@usuckcock nah not true. You can’t imagine the amount of people who would rather live with blissful ignorance rather than the hard truth. When I say that. Its the majority of people even you maybe and not even realize it. Thing is I despise it when your presented with the truth and yet overlook it. Thing I hate most about the world. Its expected of you to lie if you want to make it anywhere in this world. The thing thats so obvious is that they even make bad calls still in sports despite them having computers to tell exactly whats the right call to make or not. Because its more exciting and gets more people involved positively or negatively

[@obi-wankenobi8446]

Nobody wants them, people just react easily, they don't want it though

[@whatisahandle221]

Complicated, long-term or intractable or unsolvable world problems aren’t pleasant to think about. Actually, any news that has little to nothing to do with you-or at least little to nothing that you can do to influence or solve-is uncomfortable and likely unhealthy in the long term for us to consume. The older I get, the more I can sympathize with Voltaire’s point at the end of Candide about recommending that “we must cultivate our garden” “to be in a far better place than kings.”

[@maxp3141]

“Apathy is a solution. love costs: it takes effort and work.”

[@KasumiRINA]

@@obi-wankenobi8446 nah, people are doomscrolling news and suddenly, something about cats or fast food or otherwise irrelevant is a fresh change to the... well, everything. In a macrocosm it turns into useless stuff like "culture war", when instead of debating whether buying oil from one dictatorship is better than financing another, people just find it easier to yell at each other over who goes into what bathroom. That said, literally anything is better than russia, come on, Maduro is a POS, yet he doesn't buy drones on the money to invade neighbors.

[@thatllwork_official]

I just assume that all news articles are the exact opposite of what the headline says at this point…

[@dragonwithamonocle]

...That'll work.

[@golfnz34me]

Yep, that's actually a pretty good rule of thumb.

[@vryusvin3905]

Also... a number of those sites farm out their writing to content mills. Desperate authors trying to pay their bills take the jobs. The only requirements are length (about 400-500 words is average), keyword inclusion (to get that higher ranking) and good grammar (so you don't sound like a fool). This is one of the reasons you'll read through 200-300 words of complete garbage padded with anything possible until you get close to what the title is about. The author is trying to reach the max word count to get max pay. To your point, lots of SEM/SEO companies request content ("articles") on different subjects than what they are promoting, If you've looked up something like insurance or health, only to find an odd paragraph in the middle about buying gold, then that's SEO/SEM making the internet worse. You can't trust much on the internet anymore unless it's from a solid source and there are no tags marking it as third-party or advertiser content.

[@BumblebeeXrocks]

@The Rotten💯 Except the Onion is apparently trying to be a serious and factual news site now, and not the fun stuff it was anymore. ._.

[@jacoballey21]

*cough* doublespeak

[@robhulson]

Ryan, I'm laughing and also saluting you because this is exactly why I checked out of the entire news cycle. When media simply started using social media as its source of public opinion, in fact its source for pretty much ANY material, I realized that I really can't trust an already untrustworthy news media. There's an incestuous relationship between media and social media and my life is a lot happier since I checked out of both. Except for KZbin, I still comment here.

[@taliesinriver]

How do you get news now though?

[@itsd0nk]

Try NPR. It’s such a nice good old days feeling to hear straight shots of journalism with no opinion chanting or social media mind rape. BBC to a similar but slightly lesser degree too, but NPR is the most old school news source left I feel. They’re publicly funded by donations from viewers and aren’t beholden to ad revenue or stock holders.

[@Zer0ne-Infinite]

@@taliesinriver through television I guess?

[@robhulson]

@@taliesinriver I largely ignore it and have been using that freed up mind space and energy to try to improve my life situation and the situation of those around me. I'm taking better care of my yard, my house, my kids, got involved with my church in ways that are in line with my own gifts, have a side business, am getting better at cooking... I don't really find news valuable except for local stuff. I found that I was using the news and politics largely as a way of abdicating my own responsibilities.

[@Lycanthromancer1]

"Incestuous relationships on full display, on my social media? It's more likely than you think!"

[@aaronhurst4379]

Freaking, THANK YOU for addressing this problem with online media outlets, this has bugged me for a long time and this skit summed that up perfectly

[@baronsengir187]

Just another symptom of "We do not have enough productive jobs anymore because we got too efficient"

[@Nevertoleave]

Fluff pieces = clicks and ad revenue from people that wouldn’t normally read the news. It’s like how some newspapers have the social papers/gossip articles, advice articles, editorials, sports, and comics/puzzles. They might not care about a war or the latest science news but they’d buy the paper to read about some socialite’s party, the winning goal from the game last night, or what problem dear Abby is solving today. That help keeps the lights on and pays the journalists reporting from a war zone

[@daytimegaming3122]

I’m not sure if you listen to Tim Pool, but he’s addressed this kind of stuff all the time

[@mikekasich836]

"CONFESSION OF GUILT: Donald Trump says this Mueller investigation will END his presidency!" 5th paragraph "Donald trump said 'man this is gonna be the end of the presidency. I've heard about one special counsels get called and you can never get anything done after that'"

[@smithynoir9980]

@@Nevertoleave In that case the News Publishers need to branch out by establishing a brand that does do the gossip, the opinions, the cooking, the advice or whatever blog like pieces they like. If they did this their actual News brand might be taken seriously. But both together under the same umbrella just makes them appear as nothing to be taken seriously. Fair point though, unfortunately a publication that is only real news and legitimate journalism isn't economically sustainable.

[@littlesaresare]

Missed the component where the headlines are not "McDonalds isn't bringing back the McPizza" but "You won't BELIEVE what McDonalds admitted doing to their FOOD".

[@Mskittenlover12]

"You can't base entire articles off of people reacting to things on twitter". BuzzFeed would like words.

[@Dukeflyhawker]

I always loved the passive aggressive threat of "words": "if you believe what I say is offensive to a group of people (I have no experience with) is not offensive then we're gonna have words!" You mean a conversation where you lose your cool? We're already there

[@chloepatt1661]

I'd take BuzzFeed over many other 'news outlets' any day. At least some BF articles offer mild entertainment if nothing else.

[@Mangaka718]

it'd be Top 5 BuzzFeed Reactions to Criticisms of Modern Journalism! (Number 4 will SHOCK you!) lmao

[@aaronimp4966]

BuzzFeed would like WoRdS? I think BuzzFeed has enough words as it is, let's not give them any more words.

[@womenhavehivemind9043]

Imagine listening, watching and reading or doing anything with buzzfeed, it's utterly garbage from like 2017

[@LegoMiniMovies]

“Hi there hello” that gets me happy every time

[@Games4Kickz]

How hard is it to be news site these days? Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@Tracey66]

I'm going to need you to get ALLLL the way off my back about that.

[@abnormallynormal8823]

Have you seen the compilation of the local news networks on every channel reading the same thing, verbatim? You don’t even have to think. If you can clearly read a teleprompter and have basic human hygiene you can be a news anchor

[@blunderbus2695]

Oh really?

[@kevinnewsom3128]

Sensationalizing the trivial is TIGHT!

[@HandlelessTML]

Hey! That's that quote from the thing! You said that!

[@swagzagoon2596]

"You're making people react to a story that's about people reacting to a story that's about something not happening." "Yeah, getting some pretty good numbers to." Man summed up every controversy discussion channel ever.

[@casinosavant]

*too

[@kryptiqk2141]

But it was happening, just not en masse as implied.

[@briand1337]

Relying on social media to write clickbait news articles is super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@MAGAMAN]

Since when did CNN become social media?

[@seekeroftruth6728]

@@MAGAMAN Since the invention of the comment section. You know Faux News has an app, right?

[@gamesturbator]

And TIGHT!

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@MAGAMAN When Clearly Not News admitted they were entertainment: Jeff Zucker, former president of CNN: _The idea that politics is sport is undeniable, and we understand and approached it that way._ - interview to New York Times Magazine, April 2017

[@seekeroftruth6728]

@@MichaelPohoreski You know Faux "News"'s evening lineup isn't even allowed to say that it's news. They're *literally* entertainment shows, but the gullible gulp it down like gospel.

[@zbiv]

This is amazing! Gave me chills. So real and so true. Not just funny, but satire done right! The sentence about reaction to reaction to stuff that is not happening is something we observe but couldnt have said it in a better way. Salute!

[@videogameprobro]

This also reminds me of the self-insert articles like “I ate a burger so you don’t have to and science asks why.”

[@crazyeyeskillah]

Omg these are The Worst

[@Somnogenesis]

See, now that's just making me want to eat a burger...

[@marshallfogg537]

The ending is so perfect as to how we got to this point, lol. Another great video

[@masterlinktm]

I'd say it is the opposite. We are where we are because the media is actively deceitful causing the real problems to go unnoticed until the time where everything is falling apart.

[@OffscreenkillVA]

I wholeheartedly agree.

[@MrPartisanhack]

In the end we are masters of our own fate.

[@rayzermaniac5218]

I am so glad that someone has finally said it. So many news articles are talking about some insane headline that is based off 2 or 3 randoms on twitter who have "expressed their displeasure" at something. There is so much non news out there.

[@Kennysaco]

“It’s the frickin news site” 🤣🤣 best line ever

[@scruffythejanitor1969]

“When I was a boy the news was half an hour. A guy would come on, wear a tie, and give you 30 minutes. That was the whole news. Now they have entire channels-24 hours of constant, nonstop news. Turns out, back in the old days… they had it about right.” - Norm Macdonald

[@tsb7911]

Did you hear about the McPizza?

[@cordyceps182]

@@tsb7911 The worst thing about it was the hypocrisy.

[@jadondavid8272]

If you thought that was insightful, you should hear what norm had to say about Hitler.

[@MAGAMAN]

@@tsb7911 Look up pizzagate for more information.

[@MAGAMAN]

@@jadondavid8272 That's what the Germans would want you to do.

[@Northspade]

The great thing about this is it’s what a certain channel that owns another channel does. And then oddly enough, Ryan kinda justified some of the emotions that go through you when you compare clickbait to the actual problems happening.

[@calemr]

"We are reporting that there's Looting, raping, and yes, even cannibalism." "My god, you've actually seen people looting, raping, and eating each other!?" "No... No we haven't actually seen it Tom, we're just reporting it."

[@mikekasich836]

"Donald trump is a nazi!" "is he really? he said that?" "well that's what we're going with sir!"

[@ansalem12]

@@mikekasich836 Because as we all know the only way to determine if someone is a nazi is if they tell you that they are. I'm not calling Trump a nazi, I'm just sayin.

[@davidanoble]

@@ansalem12 I mean technically 'nazi' is a group affiliation, so you'd at least need to evidence some sort of coordination between someone and that group. Not that you're wrong - somebody can certainly deny being a part of a group that they are indeed a part of.

[@LC-cp5lz]

That's like back in 2016 when news outlets said CNN aired porn because they trusted a random false tweet without confirming. Speedy news competition is the worst kind of competition.

[@minbari73]

You may well do in the coming years.

[@mrdewarion]

Nice light hearted commentary about the human tendency to read inconsequential trivia bits to forget about the harsh reality of how fucked up the human existence on our planet is.

[@THEJPIndustry]

I know its really immature but i am just to afraid to open news or hear people talk about anything recent in the world because of fear that it just depresses me further What putins war is since 4 months now? What our electricity Bill, even tho its 99% water powered has gone up to double? Our warm water price tripled? We are like 1.2°C from 1.5°C before climate change is unstopable and the world colapses? Human society destroys ecco whole ecco Systems and fires are now normal because of climate change? Wait BP hasnt cleared their oil spill in the golf of mexico and how many millions to billions animals and humans and insects and fish died because of what they did, and they have 0 concequences?

[@lifeofrex4377]

For real

[@wahlex841]

I read inconsequential trivia bits precicely to try not to think about the fucked up human existence for at least a few seconds.

[@jamescogswell9297]

Indeed. The news sites do it like that because most people WANT it like that, instead of the truth. Do not forget.

[@hansknickerbocker9202]

Very true, but it's hard to blame most people for trying to forget just how fucked up human existence is for a while or even altogether, considering just how awful and relentless it can be.

[@dstinnettmusic]

This is why I don’t read the news. My family tells me I’m “uninformed” and “I have a responsibility to be an informed citizen” And then I think of the vast majority of news articles…

[@jesuszamora6949]

I stopped with the news after 2016, and stopped with social media after 2020. I'm a lot better off.

[@chrismclean3848]

I try to get my family to stop reading toxic news that doesn’t directly affect them, but they don’t listen! They want to feel smart or they feel left out without it! I can tell it’s ruining their mental health and causing unnecessary stress, but I can’t do anything 😢

[@timbradshaw5481]

@David Stinnett does your family really tell you that?

[@andrewlance3898]

"A man who reads nothing is better educated than a man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson

[@Damesanglante]

There's a difference between being informed and parrotting what corporations want to push.

[@martinpalmenberg2678]

It’s a good day when Ryan uploads

[@vortexgaming7485]

True

[@ikigai1479]

agreedd

[@3vorp]

yes

[@imanmerchant5142]

yep

[@plushzillaproductions246]

It should be a national holiday

[@PopeMical]

it is pretty crazy how it seems like a lot of news organizations like to just take a few tweets or a random video by someone as some sort of proof for whatever story they want to spin. One of the worst ones I've seen recently was the news used a single tiktok to try to generalize all the criticism about something and also dragged that person's name through the mud. Some of the statements the news anchors made about said person, with ONLY that tiktok as "proof", felt like they could easily ruin someone's life.

[@mikekasich836]

"CONFESSION OF GUILT: Donald Trump says this Mueller investigation will END his presidency!" 5th paragraph "Donald trump said 'man this is gonna be the end of the presidency. I've heard about one special counsels get called and you can never get anything done after that'"

[@txmits507]

generally online reactions, statements, and articles are generic outrage/clickbait/propagandizing garbage, doesn't matter from where or who.

[@jlev1028]

To be fair, TikTok is trash.

[@darkchakra22]

That’s how they make money

[@3nertia]

All part of the plan ...

[@SuchiththaW]

Super on point. Particularly that ending - we'd all rather deal with fluff pieces than reality.

[@pcfry8732]

I don't know if I've agreed with one of Ryan's videos more aggressively than I do this one.

[@santishorts]

News site: "Headline: Something outrageous most definitely probably might have happened" Me: "What is it? Aren't you supposed to tell me in the headline? Wasn't that the point of headlines? Isn't that precisely what is taught at journalism schools?" News site: "Yeah, look, if you don't click I can't show you ads, and if I can't show you ads then I can't have money, so click"

[@MuljoStpho]

Journalist: "Journalism? What the **** is that?"

[@jesuszamora6949]

Joke's on them, we have adblockers now.

[@TheJeannag]

As someone who worked at a news site and had to write articles like this - can confirm this is exactly how the meetings deciding what we had to write about went.

[@nickgriffin3500]

It be really funny if the news site kept offering him literal cookies during their conversation

[@ooooneeee]

more like forcing him to eat them at gunpoint.

[@edenanimates1465]

Or the sign in to read the rest of the article

[@Sanguimaru]

This happens in media all the time. A public is constructed, described as vaguely as possible, to lend the idea of credibility to a position about something.

[@jesuszamora6949]

Just about. Enough to make the "other" seem like horrible is a great way to keep the clicks coming. This short-term profit mongering is going to lead us into Civil War 2.

[@Sanguimaru]

@@jesuszamora6949 I don't even just mean in America. This happens in media all over. It's an easy trick to do, and it's very easily missed.

[@TheG_Boy]

This is yet another certified Ryan George banger!

[@evanmorgano6978]

What Mr. News Site forgot to mention is that you actually have to pay $4.99 per month if you want to read past the first sentence of the McPizza article

[@ConeJellos]

I'm glad I can react to a skit that shows a guy reacting to headlines written to make people react about people reacting to nothing happening. Made by a guy who is reacting to this practice in hopes he can make others react and maybe spread his fake reactions so even more people can react. My brain hurts.

[@codingkriggsofficial]

And I'm glad I can react to a comment that is reacting to... all those things you said.

[@isitsweet9567]

Well yes, anything on this topic is baiting everyone to react- the "other side" most of all.

[@hutchhutchison4912]

It makes my brain cry how accurate this is. Great satire!!!

[@toamastar]

how do you always nail these so well??? lmaoo

[@antman674]

Yep, you nailed it with this one! When I realize after the first paragraph that the majaority of an article is just quoting opinions from other random people on twitter, its time to put that site on the "show less like this" list.

[@gonnhaze]

The ending is brilliant because it shifted the responsability of how the news are reported back to the ones to blame, us.

[@hunterkiller1440]

"I believe he wasn’t educated on the situation at hand." - LeBron James's lecture on freedom of speech

[@diando19]

😂😂😂 LeChina

[@mikekasich836]

"CONFESSION OF GUILT: Donald Trump says this Mueller investigation will END his presidency!" 5th paragraph "Donald trump said 'man this is gonna be the end of the presidency. I've heard about one special counsels get called and you can never get anything done after that'"

[@MikadoYuma]

Literally a dude who went straight from high school to being super rich is trying to lecture people on education lol

[@GlassesnMouthplates]

LeBron "ACAB, unless it's police force who's in support for China" James.

[@dutchmilk]

@@diando19 You mean he pointed out that people were getting burned alive by "freedom fighters" in Hong Kong?

[@jaizo_]

And article headlines like "CONFIRMED ASTEROID HEADED FOR EARTH THIS WEEK" then the article is just "a tiny pebble has a 2% chance of passing by 10000 miles away from earth"

[@kjw79]

As a Canadian, can confirm most headlines are “Fears that x may happen”, “concerns that y won’t happen. Or “outrage over concerns that a may have happened”

[@jesuszamora6949]

Come down south, you'll see all that laced with our uniquely toxic partisan bullcrap.

[@chiarardn2401]

Please, do more videos about how the names for animals were decided!

[@vctrsigma]

Yes!! I must know the entire backstory of how the Yellow-headed blackbird got its name!

[@Fe22234]

Yes I must know about the Cockatoo.

[@gingerfuu9174]

@@Fe22234 we all know it’s gonna be that one guy with a brown jacket

[@DD-kc6hg]

Yeah, I want to know how the bird name Great Tits came into existence. Also, the Great Bustard.

[@jacobnotfacob]

"What Are the important stories?" "Well, the climate crisis is getting worse, there's a housing crisis, there's inflation, there are a bunch of wars going on, the economy's probably gonna collapse." (nods slowly) "So what was that about the McPizza?"

[@patrickthomas2119]

It is somewhat sad that the news is becoming an outlet of entertainment being used as a drug like tranquilizer to distract from the actual news. And what is worse when they DO report actual news it is highly partisan garbage that is filled with gaslighting and hyperbole designed to elicit strong emotional reactions rather than fact reporting that is conductive to rational discourse. This is one of those satire bits in which it is almost depressing when you think about how accurate it is. I am by no means a Trump fan but his criticism of the media as bias hacks is pretty spot on (and that includes both sides ranging from Fox to MSNBC and everything in between... well I mean lets be fair CNN, NYT, BBC, Wapo are all about equal to MSNBC these days; is there even a spectrum in between anymore? )

[@AlexRejba]

So... ScreenRant?

[@MartinGerard-oi3op]

😂

[@Saje3D]

I realized the other day Newsweek now covers Reddit threads. I’m still boggled by that.

[@Rennies-World]

And "viral" TikTok videos? 😂

[@lyndon4010]

That man has a commanding mustache and i like it

[@sheikhu1039]

That ending was GOLD, the news is like that cause that's what people want to hear

[@plushzillaproductions246]

I love this guy and he always makes me laugh

[@somerandolad]

Yeah, Ryan and George never fail to have us in stitches!

[@plushzillaproductions246]

@@somerandolad when he posts it should be a national holiday

[@santishorts]

That's a vaguely generic comment.

[@emmywraps7165]

@@somerandolad Ryan does all the work, while George just sits there and gains half the money, like this video for example wheres George in this vid

[@justsomeweirdkid6090]

Yeah I agree

[@duncecap000]

OMG YES I love when you post! It makes my day so much better! Thank you for putting so much effort to entertain us!❤

[@alextaws6657]

hell yes!!!

[@WiloPolis03]

The one thing we need in these uncertain times is people's reactions on Twitter

[@JohnSmith-ef2rn]

I refuse to even call the people who write these “news” articles journalists. They’re not. They are poorly paid interns who scour reddit and forums for “reactions” from a few people, then are tasked with making a 4 paragraph article about said reaction with as many ads on it as possible. They are not journalists. They are hardly even writers. “Click-bait monkey” is a more apropos to their actual work. I’d feel sorry for them, except that they are directly contributing to the decline of public discourse, by distracting the public with nonsense and inflaming the culture wars by making people seem insane, when most are not. Of course, the real villains are the people running these “news” sites, who just want clicks and nothing else. Poisoning public discourse and fostering enmity between people? Well, that drives clicks, so let’s do it! In a few decades, we’ll look back at these sites and compare them to cigarette companies - people who knowing foisted a harmful product (in this case sensationalism) onto the public for profit. Of course, I’m well aware that sensationalism and “yellow-journalism” (which is not a racial reference, look it up) have existed forever, but with digital media its influence is magnified a hundred fold.

[@nenmaster5218]

This Reminds me of Hbomberguys videos on Sargons Ability to read Surveys, and his video on Wokle-Brands. Anyway, if people here are as fed-up wirth TV-News-Channel and such as i am, then try the only Version of Them that in my opinion CAN ever work: A PARODY-Version. KZbinr 'Some More News' has News mastered.

[@wawaicedcoffee]

It’s not even interns a lot of the time, is full-time regular employees.

[@MichaelPohoreski]

The main stream news is a complete joke of trivialized sound bites and sensationalism while entertainers tell the actual news. e.g. The liberal left have gone SO far left that they have circled all the way back to conservative right when anyone dares to question their narrative. Thankfully we have “AllNews balanced news” so you can get _both_ left and right perspectives do your own critical thinking but I guess that would take “work” for most people when they can’t simply parrot back whatever echo chamber “opinion” they are told to have.

[@nerds-nonsense]

I don't think it's totally fair to blame the writers, a lot of people want to be journalists and these are the only jobs they can get. It's like working at Mcdonald's except these people are generally hoping to use their job as a stepping stone to eventually make a real difference (not trying to shit on minimum wage workers but working at a fast food restaurant doesn't generally lead to a better job).

[@coreykwok4143]

I remember taking a journalism class in college and I was hoping to learn about click baity titles. Like how it's done, why it's effective, and things like that because it ls so rampant in modern news. When I tried using headlines like that my professor got real mad at me pretty much calling me out and saying that's not real news. She was right and I was a little disappointed that the class was more serious than I originally intended. But we did get to lean into the trashy news style 1 time and that assignment was super easy barely an inconvenience.

[@kyleenglandracing701]

Haven’t watched the video yet, but don’t forget how some sites let you read part of the article and then are like “bUy a PrEmiUM SubScRIpTioN fOr $99.99 tO cONtInuE rEadIng”

[@trevorgarcia5999]

It’s so annoying

[@kyleenglandracing701]

@@trevorgarcia5999 It just happened to me and then this vid was posted like 5 minutes after 🤣

[@smvml89]

“There was a huge outrage on Twitter about something I said the other week. By outrage I mean 2 Tweets” - Ricky Gervais

[@LFTRnow]

My favorite is the "could" or "may" articles. Elon musk's ears COULD grow very long and cause him to pick up sounds from bats... Some economists say the economy COULD collapse in the next week... Aliens orbiting Earth may just have the cure for all diseases on earth.

[@Somnogenesis]

Ahh, yes, good old weasel words. I was just replying to another comment about how the other such device in common clickbaity use is the weasel question mark. "Are LEGISLATORS trying to take away our DOG BEDS?" ... "Is BUNGEE JUMPING a miracle cure for IMPOTENCE?" ... "Does eating BROCCOLI make you more likely to get PROBED BY ALIENS?". (Over-excited capitals optional, but another good guide to incoming bollocks.) We can fairly safely predict, in other words, that that little weasel question mark is there to disguise an unfounded theory, a slur or other nonsense in the spurious guise of 'fact', for the sole purpose of getting clicks, stirring up alarm/anxiety/fear/other negative emotions and/or trying to part fools from their money. The basic rule of thumb to remember is: *"If a headline poses a question, the answer will turn out to be 'no'."* So, if we see a headline from a non-reputable source asking - i.e. tacitly _suggesting_ - "Is LeBron James about to retire?" or "Were the pyramids secretly built by lizard people?" we can equally well assume, without even reading the actual text, that the answer will turn out to be 'nope'.

[@TimoRutanen]

Aliens orbiting the earth are definitely very likely to have a permanent cure for all diseases on earth.

[@thethiny]

When the video has no ad, you know Ryan wanted to rant for real. It's okay buddy, we're here. You can let it all out.

[@owenaspinall2046]

He's ranting. On a screen. Huh, nothing even a little ironic about that.

[@Rennies-World]

It's a disturbing trend. I miss the Adstronaut!

[@rangerkamado8061]

I love how he says “Hi, hello.” at the start of every episode.

[@sumpop420]

Always such astute social commentary in a hilarious package! Speaking the truth is tight!

[@REDVOLT400]

Hey, It’s the freaking Ryan George

[@MohamedIbrahim-xm1tj]

"The first guy to do a pitch meeting" I'm waaaiting

[@sdad123]

Hello, Ryan. Thank you for posting videos, you’ve helped me through some very rough patches and I just want to say thank you. Keep the videos up.

[@coleallen2181]

Love your videos!

[@StephanieJeanne]

😂 Exactly! Those pesky news sites are really just keeping us from focusing on the truly terrible stuff.

[@the-wisest-emu]

So... are pesky news sites the real heroes? 🤯

[@thegreenxeno9430]

I'm surprised McDonald's isn't bringing back the mcpizza. why aren't more people talking about it?

[@chrisblanc663]

I never even heard of the mcpizza. It has room to grow. I demand they bring back the mCpizza or I’ll boycott womens sports! (Since I don’t watch womens sports that’s something safe to boycott, I’m pretty sure)

[@StephanieJeanne]

@@the-wisest-emu Yeah, idk! 😜😆

[@getaloadathisguy]

These never fail to make me laugh

[@fleity]

There are too many news sites and not enough actual news / newsworthy content. This is so spot on it pains me.

[@cymond]

"Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know." - Michael Crichton It's getting harder for anyone to believe the news media, which makes it easier for certain people to just shout "fake news" over and over.

[@michaelgallagher3640]

Fake news is real.

[@cymond]

@@michaelgallagher3640 I'm not sure how to interpret this sentence. Yes, fake news exists. Yes, some of what gets labeled "fake" is actually real. Either way, we've lost all faith in the media to present stories in an unbiased way.

[@Rennies-World]

I feel like Michael Crichton needs to review the definition of "briefly". 🤣

[@cymond]

@@Rennies-World He's a novelist. This is "brief" for him.

[@Somnogenesis]

@@cymond And it _was_ brief. That entire description in his quote is only about 120 words. It's not Crichton's fault that a few years down the track people's attention spans have so badly collapsed that they now consider a handful of lines unacceptably long to read.

[@solesoulsorrow]

Years ago someone gifted Ryan George a pack of fake mustaches. He responded, "What am I supposed to do with these?" And here we are.

[@iambicpentakill]

This made me miss Garex Wurmuloid and his mustache eyebrows

[@solesoulsorrow]

Oh! I had never heard of him before... Now I'm checking out some of his videos. Thank you, @@iambicpentakill

[@marcw6875]

I wish we had much better filter options for all things on the internet. One of the first magic rules I would set is "Do not show me any news article that has a screenshot of a tweet in it."

[@coena9377]

Wow I’m so early the news is still new.

[@wesleyoldham4222]

The amount of people who are upset about this new Ryan George sketch is insane! I honestly don't understand all the hate. But the good people at Scary News Network haven't stopped talking vaguely about it, so the hate is definitely real.

[@RetrospectWindow]

Ryan really hits at the heart of it. Yes, so much news content is a waste of space - but as much as people complain, none of it changes without YOU clicking on important issues instead of trivial nonsense

[@jesuszamora6949]

The problem is that the coverage of "important issues" is usually just as paper-thin and designed to make people frightened and enraged so they engage more. Anti-abortion people hate women, pro-choice people hate babies, gun owners don't care about gun crime, any talk of gun regulation is gun-grabbing, the goddamn list goes on. If these sites (and the 24-hour cable news, let's be real here) weren't incentivized to tear us apart at every turn, we'd be better off.

[@Libly]

Still waiting for Ryan to do a star wars themed video and start it off with "hello there"

[@Rennies-World]

The working title for that video will be Blue Harvest. 👀

[@clintholmes2061]

Hating on the corporate media is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@superperidot1359]

So refreshing to see someone make fun of the world so accurately in such a wholesome manner.

[@patrickgilbert6889]

Un de tes meilleurs à date. 😮 Très bonne analyse du besoin de consommer de l'information "divertissante" comme Infoman à Radio-Canada. ❤

[@nubby762]

My secret fetish is getting the information from the headline, then finding out the details elsewhere without ever clicking on the article, that way I don't give the article any attention, and no ad revenue 😈

[@ncjay08]

That final twist at the end. I think I should have seen that coming, but I didn't. Modern day "journalism" really is interesting.

[@ManoredRed]

Its funny how true this is, lol. Lots of articles present a list of, say, five tweets, and we are supposed to believe some kind of consensus exists over that.

[@clairebamber9608]

Remember how at school one child would get upset at another child because they said they were going to play with someone else at lunchtime. Then the first child's group of friends reacted to that and started spreading rumours to win more people over to their side and the situation was escalated into something out of nothing? Looks like these news sites are back in the playground 🙄😒

[@lachlanp3365]

A couple of things that could be added are those sites that spread out a story over multiple pages, or sites that make you login to read the full story and then you find out it was like a single sentence hidden.

[@repapeti98]

"Latest thing sparks controversy!" OH yeah that meaningless thing one guy on twitter got upset about and all 2000 replies said that he's an idiot.

[@Rennies-World]

They should do an article about getting ratioed. 😂

[@orbeezeater]

Not having the adstronaut talk to me is incredibly worrying

[@zunalter]

The turnaround at the end was really perfect

[@whiteboard_history]

You should do how attacks got their names (like elbow, headbutt, etc.) it would be pretty funny

[@PatrickWDunne]

Ryan really went to annihilated every clickbait news site 💀

[@senmetwo42]

Earlier at work I heard your voice, turns out one of my coworkers also watches this channel. He was binging some videos, it was dope.

[@bendyboy7179]

I threw my device in rage when i learned Mc Donalds isn’t bringing the Mc Pizza back! Oh wait its been gone for years im still pissed.

[@masoll9157]

I love how almost all of his videos begin with “Hi there hello”

[@FrankieDeJong]

“The economy is going to collapse”- Ryan George 2022

[@mr_indie_fan]

You can thank joe biden when it does collapse! 👏 and also the dumbasses who voted for the walking potato with 2 brain cells.

[@Rennies-World]

"probably"

[@n3v3rg01ngback]

Writing can be automated. No one is sitting down and typing these articles out. They are generated. Have you noticed their stilted tone and unlikely errors?

[@b-rad-3849]

Another great video! I am constantly reminding people that Twitter is not a valid source of information. Neither is an article that cites Twitter as if it is a valid source of information.