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SwipeWire wrote:

When I search up "anime localization controversy" on YouTube, all the videos that come up have "woke" in the title. And these channels don't seem to really care about the poor state of localization and how translators insert their own politics into the media they're supposed to be faithfully adapting. They only care about profiting off controversies and pandering to their audiences. In turn, this works in the localizers' favor, by making many people (mostly on Twitter) support them out of spite.
The same exact thing happened during the Godot Engine drama, which caught me off guard, because I never saw Godot as something mainstream. However, during the Godot drama, smaller channels who had some familiarity with Godot also spoke up, disappointed with the engine's focus on politics.
The Skullgirls update controversy in 2023 (which is kind of what got me into this site and its community) had the same kind of people speaking up about it, but accompanying those people, like with the Godot controversy, were smaller channels disappointed with the direction taken by the studio. The inclusion of these smaller channels relieves me a bit, but in most controversies, they are absent.
This worries me. How come most of the people that speak up about political agendas nowadays are the kinds who call everything "woke" and get called "fascists" in return?

Checkpoint Flag wrote:

I wouldn't be surprised if it's because they can just hammer out the same talking points without thinking, and they don't have to put effort into it because the algorithm serves it to its intended audience.
I haven't really watched any such channels recently, but from what I remember, what the grifter was ranting about usually sounded like what they ranted about in any other video they put out.
Meanwhile, actual criticism (the constructive kind) and nuanced takes require time and effort, which many small channels likely don't have, even if they're intensely passionate about something. Hence, the saturation of content from mindless grifting and the scarcity of not-that-sort of content.

Source: The ether and my biases.

KoimanZX wrote:

Nuance is also punished by algorithms with low views. Provocative titles and thumbnails are what brings eyes to stuff.