Those streamers could be paid to talk a bit about the climate while they are playing. Mr Beast and friends planted 22 million trees (https://teamtrees.org/), and I think this did have a lasting effect on pop culture, however small.
Re:My dream of the great unbundling
by ThrustVectoring on Sunday April 11, 2021 @12:15AM
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That wasn't a decision made by the product manager of an algorithmic feed, though.
Good luck. You can't get a random user to spend an hour learning. You have approximately two sentences.
Like, take YouTube. They've added various "learn about the COVID vaccine" or "here's something to do with Black History Month" rows in the recommended feed to me. I've x'd out of every one of these civic recommendations, pretty much regardless of the content - I'm in the app to get a chill videogame streamer to fall asleep to anyhow, if I'm in the mood to become more informed, I'm not lazily scrolling through what's new on YouTube. Pretty much all those sections have done is told me that Google is, as an institution, pro-vaccine and pro-cultural-left (broadly construed). I already pretty much knew that.