Category Archives: Youtube

I Passed My Youtube Ethics Review! (Satire)

Posted on July 20, 2025 by Luke Ford

YouTube Ethics Review Outcome and Contract for Luke Ford aka Fordy Date: July 20, 2025 Reviewing Board: YouTube Ethics Committee (Dr. Jane Smith, PhD in Anthropology; Dr. Robert Chen, PhD in Psychology; Dr. Emily Torres, PhD in Economics) Review Summary: … Continue reading →

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Decoding Destiny aka Steve Bonnell Part Two (4-22-24)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Luke Ford

01:00 How to write effectively, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15477406:00 Decoding Destiny, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/20:00 Outback ringer, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13085004/22:00 The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australian History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=13220949:00 How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1548231:01:00 Body Brokers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Brokers1:03:00 Fodder for Christ 1:40:00 Why … Continue reading →

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NPR: YouTube will no longer take down false claims about U.S. elections

Posted on June 4, 2023 by Luke Ford

Report: YouTube will no longer remove videos falsely claiming the 2020 U.S. presidential election was stolen, reversing a policy put in place in the contentious weeks following the 2020 vote. The Google-owned video platform said in a blog post that … Continue reading →

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Like, Comment, Subscribe: How YouTube Conquered the World

Posted on September 20, 2022 by Luke Ford

Here are some highlights from this new book: * An annoyed viewer once called into YouTube’s office line and left a voice mail. “I need to goddamn masturbate, and I can’t do that when you don’t have all those videos … Continue reading →

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NYT: How Streaming Stars Pay the Price of Online Fame

Posted on July 29, 2022 by Luke Ford

From the Times today: “Stars on Twitch, the video game streaming platform, invite viewers into their homes virtually. What happens when one shows up in person?” What happens varies from the inconvenient to the deadly. In other words, if you … Continue reading →

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