Maybe it’s time for SDF to get a YouTube channel

AssassinsMace said:

How about commenting on Western military events and giving them a cold dose of reality instead of the fantasy they give? How about technological developments that can be applied militarily?

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You've been around long enough to know exactly how most of them will react: they'll call you a Russian shill or a Wumao, perhaps even a LLM powered bot!

Not to say there's absolutely no way of disarming such audiences, but unless you enjoy spending $$$$-$$$$$$ on internet "social experiments" or random shit and giggles (and nothing wrong if you are such a character), publishing such content on YouTube is probably more trouble than it's worth.

Everything here is public. If it were easy to monetise the site’s content, people already would be doing so.

I don’t know anything about the financial structure here, but I’m assuming mods are volunteers, and the owner is a private individual, like most traditional forums. If it were possible to monetise, why would a mod do that work, just to donate the revenue to the site owner?

If the site needs revenue, I’d have thought it’d go the usual route of soliciting donations and rewarding donors with status. (Fancy titles, access to exclusive forums, etc.) If you want to get really modern, allow users to award each other with monetised accolades, Reddit style.

That said, it still makes sense for the forum to support members’ content creation, whether that be reports, publications, or YouTube videos.

zyklon said:

You've been around long enough to know exactly how most of them will react: they'll call you a Russian shill or a Wumao, perhaps even a LLM powered bot!

Not to say there's absolutely no way of disarming such audiences, but unless you enjoy spending $$$$-$$$$$$ on internet "social experiments" or random shit and giggles (and nothing wrong if you are such a character), publishing such content on YouTube is probably more trouble than it's worth.

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They’re already saying it so why do you care?

AssassinsMace said:

They’re already saying it so why do you care?

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Merely discouraging others from investing time and effort in making content that will likely and largely go completely unappreciated by Western audiences.

Regardless, please don't let me stop you from proceeding as you please!

Still would advocate for the "give more support to existing YouTubers and have more involvements overall" approach

ismellcopium said:

I've always wanted to mention this @5unrise but you need to like 1.5x your voiceovers after recording them lol. The pace of speaking is way too slow, slower than probably anyone else on Youtube, probably excruciating for a lot of people who don't want to manually speed up & they just click away. Just my two cents.

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I just assume it's done to pad runtime and listen on 1.75x...

tankphobia said:

Maybe some sort of quarterly report on PLA OSINT would be nice. The niche is definitely there to provide a more credible overview of PLA happenings that does not cast much judgement/commentary on geopolitical implications but focus on delivered capabilities.

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My handlers are very supportive of your suggestions. Perhaps you could even send them to my inbox with detailed notes?

lol, jokes.

I think a YouTube account where you comment on all the developments and possibilities. there are a lot of things not even scholars talk about that are talked about here, like ballistic missiles and the research we all like looking at. A good YouTuber that talks about a niche and advanced stuff that gets a lot of views is say so there's an audience to it, I would say his channel is a good base off of, BUT DO NOT USE AI VOICE OVER. no one likes that and turns a good video into an annoying video.

I remember some members here and r/lcd did a twitter-live(?) chat when that "anime avatar guy" was around. It might be interesting to have something like that every so often.

BasilicaLew said:

I think a YouTube account where you comment on all the developments and possibilities. there are a lot of things not even scholars talk about that are talked about here, like ballistic missiles and the research we all like looking at. A good YouTuber that talks about a niche and advanced stuff that gets a lot of views is say

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so there's an audience to it, I would say his channel is a good base off of, BUT DO NOT USE AI VOICE OVER. no one likes that and turns a good video into an annoying video.

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Asianometry would be good if he didn't have the bias. But yes, he has a pretty loyal following now because the topics he covers don't have a whole lot of coverage.

Asianometry guy…


There’s another Chinese guy that has a channel who speaks English that I see on YouTube who looks like a nerd and he doesn’t use a Chinese name but has chosen an English name. But it’s some strange name no one uses. It’s spelled something like Charriot. Now think about saying it with a stereotypical accent. Those “r”s are a killer.

Reading posts in here there seems to be a concern about how Chinese will look to others by having an SDF channel as in it will make China look threatening. So if you think that way naturally you want nerds representing you aka not threatening. Apparently “looking” like nerd is okay though.