Okay so i have to clarify here, this is a joke title. As far as military summary channels go this one is not that bad, it has actually been fairly neutral (not that that’s necessarily a good thing, but they’re Singaporean so they have a complicated relationship to the anti-US camp) in covering the conflict, and some minor clickbait-y sensationalism aside they admit in most of what they post the obvious, which is that Russia is clearly winning and advancing, and that this is a trend that is going to continue.
The guy tweeted about exactly this video title telling the pro-Russia viewers to basically chill, this video just covers specifically the one day in a very long time when Russia didn’t make any advances (according to him) while Ukraine made some very minor regains (this is completely normal and it’s why i always tell people don’t obsess about the most minute day to day shifts of the front line); these are likely to be reversed in a few days anyway.
Don’t get me wrong, there are tons of channels out there that unironically post videos with titles like this, and yes the pro-Ukraine social media crowd really does live in an alternate reality (with very few exceptions), but this channel isn’t one of those.
The title is a joke. DPA has been a reliable source for news about the war in Ukraine since the day it begun. Next time please consider checking out if what you are about to post is bait before uploading it.
Why do they do click bait titles then? There has been so much shit like this on YT with 100% unironic titles that it’s hard to keep track.
Because these videos are directed to the audience of a channel with an already established following base, not to someone who wants quick and low hanging fruit to spam a shit liberals say-esque instance with five posts a day.
Considering the amount of click bait titles on YT these days, it’s not special, but it probably wanted to trigger Ukronazi bots.
Considering the amount of clickbait titles on YT, you should not be trying to turn this instance into an archive of lib video thumbnails to begin with.
Depends on how insane the legit ones are.
Because these videos are directed to the audience of a channel with an already established following base
I think so too. I mean i do my best to actively follow the developments in Ukraine and even for me these sorts of channels are just too obsessive about every little minutiae of the battlefield. These videos really don’t have much mass appeal beyond a very specific audience that is hyper-focused on following the most up to date updates of every FPV drone strike and every single building and tree line taken. To me this frankly isn’t very interesting… i have a limited amount of free time and there are many other global events to keep up with, but i do think it’s important that there are people who document everything and keep track of the maps so that the big picture analysts have solid data to draw from. Anyway, all that is to say that his audience probably understood the joke.
Defense Politics Asia is Pro-Russia.
You got baited.
They’re not pro-Russia, they’re just realistic.
Some of these channels are probably doing nothing but chasing the online media algorithms & ad revenue, and have no actual ideology nor any interest in the truth.
This is definitely true. I mean they wouldn’t be making videos literally every day covering the most minute and for the most part not very relevant developments in obsessive detail if they didn’t think they could monetize this. But as far as this particular video title is concerned I think it was more of a joke as i explain in my other comment.
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