A growing problem with YouTube expose content.

[Danioover9000]

   It really is. Think about it in terms of developmental factors, and the capitalism ideology and incentive to make this type of content for clicks, and views. Obviously there's still many scammers, fraudsters, con artists, swindlers, grifters, hustlers, liars and cheats, especially in 3rd world countries. Yet a few videos like these:

 

   And many more, it definitely feels like mostly stage orange profits driven, for clicks and views. Are they spreading some awareness? Sure. Is this the ideal way? IMO probably not, and does little to solve the deeper issues there in the big picture.

[Scholar]

17 hours ago, Danioover9000 said:

   It really is. Think about it in terms of developmental factors, and the capitalism ideology and incentive to make this type of content for clicks, and views. Obviously there's still many scammers, fraudsters, con artists, swindlers, grifters, hustlers, liars and cheats, especially in 3rd world countries. Yet a few videos like these:

 

   And many more, it definitely feels like mostly stage orange profits driven, for clicks and views. Are they spreading some awareness? Sure. Is this the ideal way? IMO probably not, and does little to solve the deeper issues there in the big picture.

It's the same with predator catching videos.

 

It just encourages self-righteousness and witch-hunt mentalities. It degrades society.

Edited January 25 by Scholar

[BlueOak]

It's almost a perfect reflection in reality. You don't know the hopelessness scam victims feel, it has no other outlet.

I am completely fine with scammers being shamed nationally. A lot of the governments these people operate in are turning a blind eye at best, or getting paid off at worst. I say that because unless something is getting international attention, few seem to care and little action is taken. The amount of pain these scammers inflict on their victims has been degrading society for a decade or two now. What some of these channels do is raise their profile enough, that they are shut down permanently, and give these things a consequence to deter others.

It even affected me, I cannot hear an Indian voice on the phone and not think scammer immediately. At the worst point, I was getting scam calls twice a week, or every other day, and all of them were Indian accents. Its not like I sit here and think hmm, that accent must be a scammer, it becomes just an instinctual reaction. I've managed to stop family members getting scammed by luckily being there, but many people are not so lucky, and who can they turn to or get relief from that anger/grief/hopelessness when they are ripped off? Nobody. They have no recourse, they just blame themselves, or turn racist, and their level of trust or openness goes down, their cynicism rises and it creates ripple effects throughout society. Not to mention doing business with India has such a stigma with it now, because of their association with this scamming industry. Forget there ever being an Indian call center again for the UK, whereas Indian call centers used to be our primary choice.

Yes it's a type of pornographic content. Its like when they go through a really poor area of a city, most people are just watching it to see how poor it is, and have an experience, which only has limited usefulness and does feed off of suffering.  The limited usefulness is that people are more aware of the reality going on, which makes it worth it. In this case, sometimes they go to jail, feel enough shame they stop doing this, or others are given pause for thought.


 

Edited January 26 by BlueOak

[Danioover9000]

@BlueOak

18 hours ago, BlueOak said:

It's almost a perfect reflection in reality. You don't know the hopelessness scam victims feel, it has no other outlet.

I am completely fine with scammers being shamed nationally. A lot of the governments these people operate in are turning a blind eye at best, or getting paid off at worst. I say that because unless something is getting international attention, few seem to care and little action is taken. The amount of pain these scammers inflict on their victims has been degrading society for a decade or two now. What some of these channels do is raise their profile enough, that they are shut down permanently, and give these things a consequence to deter others.

It even affected me, I cannot hear an Indian voice on the phone and not think scammer immediately. At the worst point, I was getting scam calls twice a week, or every other day, and all of them were Indian accents. Its not like I sit here and think hmm, that accent must be a scammer, it becomes just an instinctual reaction. I've managed to stop family members getting scammed by luckily being there, but many people are not so lucky, and who can they turn to or get relief from that anger/grief/hopelessness when they are ripped off? Nobody. They have no recourse, they just blame themselves, or turn racist, and their level of trust or openness goes down, their cynicism rises and it creates ripple effects throughout society. Not to mention doing business with India has such a stigma with it now, because of their association with this scamming industry. Forget there ever being an Indian call center again for the UK, whereas Indian call centers used to be our primary choice.

Yes it's a type of pornographic content. Its like when they go through a really poor area of a city, most people are just watching it to see how poor it is, and have an experience, which only has limited usefulness and does feed off of suffering.  The limited usefulness is that people are more aware of the reality going on, which makes it worth it. In this case, sometimes they go to jail, feel enough shame they stop doing this, or others are given pause for thought.


 

   Good post, I can partly agree with you here.

   It's just that navigating those lines of shaming the scammers enough, to not make it so self entitled and self righteous too much can be murky to me. Also I don't mean to be racist India and their scammers is one of many examples, there are other scammers in different countries as well, plus due to the pervasive internet that increased narcissism and self entitlement via anonymity and chasing likes/click rates/ hyper sensational thumbnails and titles and auto beautification of profile pictures from algorithms, sociopathy/psychopathy due to easier hating/trolling and lack of accountability and prolonged interface of a 2d screen scrolling up/down when we as humans are designed for 3d environmental interaction, moral degeneracy and brain rot, more ADD/ADHD cases via chasing shorter videos like Tik Tok/Twitter/Twitch/Kick, increases in living vicariously and para social relationships from Twitch/Kick, vast misinformation and misleading content in polarizing framings, and social media influencers literally INFLUENCING the younger generation, and all these negative factors of the internet contributes to brain rot and indoctrinated consumerism.

   It's sad nowadays when most westerners think of India, it's not a 'spiritual civilization that made Yoga', it's instead the 'world capital of scammers.' yet can you or anyone blame them collectively for this? Given their history, economy, geography, bio-psycho-socio factors, and many other developmental factors?