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Minute Cryptic - 24 October, 2025 (I don't watch the explanation videos as much as I should, because a like and comment increases their importance to the algorithm, but I did in this case because my first guess was correct. The algorithm measures attention caused by the spectacle in or associated with the video. The BBC's Top Gear, in its most popular form, with Clarkson, May, and Hammond, was nominally about cars but also about the parasocial relationship with the viewers and the dynamics of the hosts, the spectacle of the show, and entertainment therein. Clarkson's farm is a similar mix of entertainment, the parasocial relationships with the viewers and the dynamics of the characters involved, and the spectacle. But I think that Top Gear was, to a greater extent, one of the biggest influences in British television of the last couple of decades. Potentially globally given the extent to which it was exported. It's not reality but it's not so far from reality that the viewer doesn't feel the characters aren't real people. Being the BBC it had all kinds of restrictions on how it was paid for, so no product placement, sponsorship and that sort of thing. Yesterday I was watching a YouTube channel called 'Unspeakable', and later Ben Azelart, on YouTube and through convergency they have arrived at a similar thing to Top Gear except aimed at kids. I haven't got a problem with them because they're not bad channels and they're nowhere near as exploitative as a great deal of others. In a world where being somebody and being viewed as a success is regarded as success I don't begrudge them. The first video I watched from Unspeakable was where they built a Lego House waterpark. Very Top Gear like except with things that would appeal to children rather than Top Gear viewers. I don't know the budget but I'm assuming the Lego waterpark video cost Unspeakable between $10k and $50k depending on how it was costed and how diligent they were about things like insurance - excluding the costs of equipment and production. That video will get something like $5000, depending on the estimate, per million views on YouTube. It had several million views but that's not huge money. So YouTubers are going to necessarily have to minimise costs of producing the video and/or get sponsorship or more murky product placement and merchandising. Those are not good incentives. YouTube is like Top Gear with enshittification built in. I think it will end up with an appalling class divide where parents who can afford it have subscriptions battling with channels evolving more and more clever ways to grab people's attention. I think Unspeakable are currently among the good guys. Kids YouTube is becoming industrial with light regulation. My nephew is six. I very much recommend everyone watches the Black Mirror episode called Fifteen Million Merits. I have not checked this comment for quality and somewhat endorse this message.)
"Curtains need to be restitched after this is detached" (3,3)
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