I just want a cat and meme video platform not some “Breaking now” state sponsored information funnel

:(

Have you heard of the saga of the puppy channel?

A man had collected hundreds of hours of VHS tapes of cute pets and embarked on a mission to create a broadcast channel featuring no ads, just cute videos. Everyone turned him down, not interested, offended even at the notion that one would need a break from ad-mediated drama-laden television

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/233/starting-from-scratch/a...

One of the local cable channels growing up was a fish channel-- Somebody shot a few hours of footage at a local aquarium[1] and they ran it constantly on loop with a soundtrack of classical music.

[1] Maybe a pet fish store, actually

For awhile, Reddit did pretty well with "cat pictures".

The front page has been compromised for many years, but there's still corners like:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Awww/

https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimalsBeingBros/

Sadly the reposting (and mislabelling, and potato-ing) has gotten absolutely insane across the board so it’s quite a bit less enjoyable than it used to.

My wife and I still occasionally break out into a song of "Puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppies, puppieeeeees!"

"Natalie Portman & Rashida Jones Speak Out Again"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdEdZ8FY_fo

(I can't find the puppies one.)

I get a lot of Fox & Al Jazeera mixed in with the usual BBC, CNN et cetera. I wouldn't call that one sided.

They are all pro-state media, the other side would be anarchist media ;)

BBC is being chastised by Congress for not calling Hamas terrorists.

Not to defend the utility of anarchist media because I won’t, but in this case the BBC is a different state’s media.

One sided in that they’re state propaganda machines even if they represent different flavors of power

all the pro-war channels

Fox and CNN are two wings of the same bird. That I keep hearing people refer to Fox as the right-wing outlet tells me either "right-wingers" aren't caught up, or they are caught up, and the everyone else still thinks they care what Fox has to say. Not sure which.

The two party system is a farce. There is only one party and one media with opposing methodology to herd the masses into the end results the "ESTABLISHMENT" wants.

YouTube is also under heavy pressure from the site formally known as X, and hasn't said anything about "that YouTuber girl who steals content with a pretty voice" even though her actions, by any objective standard, obviously violate YouTube's guidelines.

This may partially be because YouTube had her featured at one of their events a few months ago and to cancel her for literally acting pedophilic (in another discovery from yesterday) would be a bad look...

Sniperwolf?

Which side? Left, right?

There is only one side but with different rhetoric

Curious what you mean by this. I know it's a sensitive topic but... the people who are really "far left" or "far right" definitely aren't what I would call "on the same side with one another" unless you mean "pawns/positioned against each other by the media they seek out to consume/think the worst of each other/are ultra radical"

Not sure what you might mean by "that's one side"