This isn't at all how that channel works. Flagrant dismissal of a body of work is explicitly against the Hacker News guidelines. I suggest you review them at the bottom of this page.
- facts are regularly presented,
- multiple viewpoints are solicited and presented
SWB strips all that away. I'd go as far as to call it docxploitation, but I suppose "My 600 lb Life" has gotten away with parading the vulnerable around.
This likely isn't really targeted, or about content at its core, and is instead for the express purpose of boosting YouTube's revenue.
YouTube ads are currently more vulgar than this content.
Vice knowingly smeared RMS, inexcusably. THey refused to acknowledge this or apologise for their role. They burned McAfee with an iPhone picture with location metadata. They're anti-journalism.
I don't know SWU, but people have pointed out that 100% of the profits go to ending poverty. Doesn't sound like something a docxploiter would do.
As far as I know, there is no evidence of that beyond the creator's claims. What happened to skepticism? The creator has enormous economic incentives to lie.
If he is truly putting all of his channel's revenue "back into the communities that I shoot in" (whatever that means), why wouldn't he be proudly transparent about what that means.
How much money? Where has it gone? Can anyone verify it?
I would love to be wrong about this, but as far as I know the answers are:
Nobody knows. Nobody knows. No.
Not really. People don't watch his channel to fund communities.
> Nobody knows. Nobody knows. No.
Have you asked him?
> why wouldn't he be proudly transparent about what that means.
Why do people need to provide receipts on the internet for their good deeds? It's not like he's using the donated profits line as his main marketing device.