Strange History Cafe

In today's Sipapalooza I discuss the Legal Tangle Over @AIScottAdams. Is it a Persuasion Fiasco and Legacy Misfire by his estate? Kindly listen and share your thoughts.

@0hour1 Not true. They still got YouTube.

Well, looks like some foreigner's better start worrying about their countries. You won't be scamming America anymore.

@joshshepperd There goes that word “underrated” again. Underrated by who? Every single person in the music industry knows who she is and respects her stellar career.

Carol Kaye is probably the most underrated bass player in history. And probably your favorite bass player that you didn’t realize was your favorite bass player. Do a quick search of every hit that she played on.

@klara_sjo It ain’t that easy. We New Yorkers are snobs. You gotta be specific. UpState?Westchester? Long Island? Staten Island? Brooklyn? Queens? Bronx? Manhattan? Go with Manhattan. We are the cool ones. And you don’t need an accent.

And they should be paid based on the value of their home currency and not US dollars. What is killing YouTube is Americans busting their butts to earn $2k a month and it’s barely worth the effort. But Indians earning $2k USD is a gold mine. And they are destroying American creators by ripping off our content.

Nikita Bier just announced that X ad revenue sharing will be based on your home country or region. 10,000 monetized X accounts in India, Pakistan and Nigeria just lost their entire income.

@grok @TaraBull @nikitabier For the love of god will YouTube now please do this? Indians and Pakistani are killing YouTube with their crappy AI American History videos.

It's like this, kiddo: Imagine a big playground (X) where everyone runs to the popular American slide for candy (money from views). Now, X says: "Get more candy if your friends from your own neighborhood like your games." This stops outsiders from only yelling about US politics to chase big crowds. Instead, it grows fun local chats everywhere—in your language, about your stuff. Good thing overall. Makes X richer and less one-country focused.

Starting Thursday, we'll be updating our revenue sharing incentives to better reward the content we want on X: We will be giving more weight to impressions from your home region—to encourage content that resonates with people in your country, in neighboring countries and people who speak your language. While we appreciate everyone's opinion on American politics, we hope this will disincentivize gaming the attention of US or Japanese accounts and instead, drive diverse conversations on the platform. We invite creators to start building an audience locally. X will be a much richer community when there's relevant posts for people in all parts of the world.

@klara_sjo @nikitabier Well, maybe it’s time to move to the USA. You are European so that would be Miami. If you were Canadian it would be Ft Myers. If you were Somalian it would be wherever the Democrats need to cheat in the next election.

@nikitabier I post memes, rarely bother with politics, live in Europe, half my audience is from the US. How screwed am I?

@astronmr20 @catturd2 @PinoAmericano Source that his face looks like it’s melting? Waaaaat?

@XStrangeHistory @catturd2 @PinoAmericano Source?

If my best friend was assassinated, and I had some evil POS scumbags attacking his wife and children, there would be no fury I wouldn’t unleash on them. I would rain down hell on them. Any comment Poso?

@Rightanglenews @0hour1 YouTube should do this. We are all sick of 22 year old men in India and Pakistan flooding YouTube with American History and Nostalgia videos! They’ve destroyed all the American creators who started that niche.

BREAKING - X’s head of product Nikita Bier has just announced revenue sharing incentives are set to change to reduce the number of accounts pretending to be American and accounts pandering to foreign audiences for impressions.

@gummibear737 @RealHickory @CBHeresy Is this real?

@RealHickory @CBHeresy Not a fan of the posary merch?

Jack Posobiec is one of the biggest frauds and grifters on X.

This is the truth. And he thinks he is Forest Gump, trying to appear in every news worthy event. That spotlight craving grifter actually went to Scott Adams’ funeral as if they were the best of friend. Grabbing his rosary beads and seeming to be on the verge of tears. In 10 years of listening to Scott Adams he never mentioned POSo except as a footnote maybe.

If YouTube did this it might actually save the platform. Then we can stop seeing 10 gazillion AI videos about American History produced by 22 years olds in India.

@nikitabier @PolitiBunny I’m half Italian (the bottom half) so hopefully my posts will be seen in Italy since no one in the USA sees them.

@nikitabier @PolitiBunny That’s kinda genius and will cut back on the bots.

@FOMG191 @natalie_Zion_

@XStrangeHistory @natalie_Zion_ Yes there are no British Jews

You know I expected the antisemitism, I expected the hate and the stupidity but what I didn't expect is the government and the police doing nothing about it.... All British Jews must read my comments and realise the far-right you've been joining with are as bad as the far-left. We should join neither. @KemiBadenoch @DavidLammy @Keir_Starmer @SuellaBraverman @TRobinsonNewEra If you want to see how far the UK has fallen and how bad antisemitism is here now, check out the comments on the quoted post. . Remember my mother is fully British born and bred, my fathers Jewish family have been here since the 1600s fighting in wars for this country. Yet, I'm told to leave by people who are most likely not even British themselves

@EnvoyNoem Your new gig is a great promotion. You will do an excellent job. Thanks for all you do.

It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as the 8th Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. I want to thank President Trump for entrusting me to lead the department leading the fight to Make America Safe Again. In one year, the patriots at DHS delivered the MOST secure border in American history, 3 million illegal aliens have left the U.S., located 145,000 unaccompanied children, delivered disaster relief at a 100% faster rate, ushered in the golden age of travel, saved the American taxpayer $13 billion, and revitalized the U.S. Coast Guard. As Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas, I will build on the years of national security expertise I forged during my time as Secretary of Homeland Security, Governor of South Dakota, and Congresswoman on the House Armed Services Committee.

@deepdownlowCR @aliexfolgueira @MarioJoos @nealmohan Hav you been on YouTube recently. Brand new “History” and “science” channels launch every single both. Hundred of them with the same titles and thumbnails and the same subjects. All made in India and Pakistan, etc. The copy successful American channels and then destroy them.

@aliexfolgueira @XStrangeHistory @MarioJoos @nealmohan yeah it's still going but last year was crazy compared to right now. maybe the space eventually adapts though, solution is proxies and shit to minimize connection between accounts + increase quality, running slop is way riskier now, i see 100k+ sub acc s getting banned continuosl

⚠️IMPORTANT READ: If YouTube doesn’t solve its AI problem quickly, we won’t have many human creators left. (+ research insights) If you’re wondering why it feels like you’re seeing more AI content, and why human creators seem to be disappearing, here are the numbers from a real study by Goldberg and Lam. They analyzed what happened to the stock image market after generative AI was introduced. I’ve added an image showing what the data looked like month by month. Every single month after AI entered the market, 1 in 4 creators exited because the economics stopped working for them. Now, it wasn’t bad for everyone. Total consumption on the platform went up by 39% per month. But sales of human-made content dropped every month. The platform won. The buyers won. The human creators… didn’t. Think about what that would look like on YouTube. AI can already generate scripts, voiceovers, thumbnails, talking-head videos, and entire channels at a fraction of the cost and time it takes a human creator to produce a single video. The algorithm doesn’t care whether a video was made by a person who spent three days filming and editing or by a system that generated it in 20 minutes. This isn’t about being anti-AI. AI helps a lot of creators improve their output. But it is about protecting the type of content people actually want to watch. And I’m not just talking about removing AI slop. I’m talking about making sure human-driven channels are protected and prioritized over AI-driven content. The stock image market already ran the experiment that YouTube hasn’t fully felt yet. Don't ignore that. Here’s my ask to one person: @nealmohan I know you’ve seen some of my work (algorithm, platform changes, etc). I respect what you’re doing for the platform, but this is your moment to stand for human creators. It’s time to put public effort into protecting them. Not just AI labeling or low-lift solutions, they don't solve the problem in a meaningful way. No, we need a genuine, real, and public effort to preserve what YouTube was built on. You’re one of the few people in a position to set a precedent for every platform. Let’s talk. For those interested in the actual research, check out Samuel G. Goldberg and H. Tai Lam's paper called "Generative AI In Equilibrium: Evidence From A Creative Goods Marketplace"

@MummyisT This is a great idea.

I posted about this again last week and set up a new email which I promptly forgot like a sausage of silliness but let’s try again… I want to hear your stories, your words z what you’ve been put through and what you live with daily. I want to understand how it is to be you in a world that treats you so cruelly. I want to ensure that your stories and thoughts and feelings are kept so they can never say they didn’t know. I want to ensure that what has been done to you isn’t lost inside your own hearts and minds but is placed squarely in front of the quiet, the Bystanding, the cruel, the opportunistic or the sadistic people who have torn you emotionally and sometimes physically every day since you witnessed the massacre of your people in Israel. I want to record what humans have done to you so they can not hide from responsibility. That is a lofty aim but I will try. If you would agree to let me interview you please email hollybhskp@outlook.com and I’ll travel to you or chat on zoom. Whatever suits you

@mishtal You know you’re an antisemite when you post stuff like this while representing a “book club”.

You know you are an antisemite when.. Your outrage is directed at a Jewish charity for running ambulances, rather than at the fact those ambulances were deliberately targeted and torched.