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Hey, there, it's us again. This is my brother Peter, mom and dad and my daughter. Today we're onna be showing our friends the basics of the internet, and we thought you might want to come along.

He will be cruel.

The internet gave us a whole world of exciting new possibilities. So I guess this is a story of how to chase our lives, maybe all yours too.

So why don't we try to see how far we can go back in the search if we search history like done there?

Yeah hasn't failed to all back the garden and show strangers the it's fucked .

and embarrassing, it's really fucked and embarrass especially sit next to you guys you guys from the new york times. You like what? The fuckyou. Watching this ship for .

IT all i'll be ask, I would not show you my youtube history. So I asked sale to download his entire youtube viewing history, like twelve thousand videos, spending four years of his life. And like.

you were excited.

I was losing my mind.

You see anything that's like range? Like I do just an internet person, you understand. So like.

i've heard so many stories about people falling .

down internet .

rapper holes and .

take on me.

but I never actually was able to sort of forensically reconstruct someone's actual journey down internet robot hole. insurance.

And then i'll listen like a lot like.

Alex jeans black to.

We could double.

That is actually pretty elsa.

Give in looking at this can help but feel like it's a little interest like were right going through like .

he went through a period where he was he was listening to a lot of frozen songs, but also. Do you want a parities like there's a frozen and breaking bad parity math up called? Do you want to build A M lab, make lots of money.

just you. But it's exactly because .

it's so private and unguarded and filtered that is so valuable as a reporting tool. Yeah, let's go. All that grows far as you can, and we will start from beginning.

So what you're looking for in calls, watch history are the clues for how he overtime takes on more, more radical bleats.

right? OK. So we will slow down, will go back to how IT started.

And to do that, we have to really put his world history in time.

The collar students are, have that right to be depressed. Their society is unsustainable because nobody y's asking the fundamental questions about why the society is the way is why things are so bad.

Because the youtube history that cala was able to download and share with us, IT starts in two thousand and fifteen, which is about a year after he got that job at derry queen and right away. One of the first things you notice is that, Stephen mAlina.

why is IT that men are the ones who have to be bananas shed from social discourse? Why is IT men who have to be driven into the basement Philips .

all time favorite youtube?

Or if you can only have a voice by making other people shut up, you're not a feminist.

You're retired. The tone and focus of .

his video aren't that people can give women voice in to every man on the planet.

has really sharpened in the wake of this weird and important internet event. Do you have feelings about gamer gate while he was happening?

I didn't get too much into that, but I saw that is like, see, they're trying to take everything over. They just want to make everything politically correct. You all these S J W, they're even trying to take .

our video games and event called gamer game.

What is a game attention .

of gamer? R, I don't even know what that is. A. So a few months before this watch history starts, back in two thousand and fourteen, there is a break up between this gamer and his girlfriend, who was a video game developer. And he was sort of part of this movement of progressive game developers who really wanted to take the world of video games.

How IT depicted women .

and violence and bring IT into the modern n age. And SHE made these very nontraditional games, like in one of them, the enemy that your character is fighting is depression. And this game IT got a lot of positive press, like gaming journalists really liked IT called the compelling eco, really hated IT.

Really, really, really sucks. So the x boyfriend of this developer wrote this really long blog post, in which he basically accused her of sleeping with a video game journalist in exchange for positive coverage. And despite the fact that this gaming journalist had never actually reviewed this game, this blog post went viral and drama is made. IT appears .

he was involved in sexual activity in return for favorite .

and starts. Huge controversy, poor issue is really its its nepotism over whether the video game industry, which you know makes billions of dollars a year, has a huge impact on people's lives, whether is all plagued by corruption and nepotism and foul play.

We have a right to question the integrity of the sites that were.

And then a bunch of angry gamers started this very intense campaign of harassment.

What started as an online spat about the ethics of gaming journalism quickly .

escalated into a full blown cultural war. They tactics that would only work on the internet.

And now the woman calling for change, multi billion, an dollar virtual industry.

are facing a very real backlash, including death rats spamming memes and trying to get hash tags .

trending bomb, rape and death threats from online harasses.

a fake account on twitter even forced another game developer to leave her boston area home after her address was made public. IT was really the first culture war where the internet itself became the primary weapon. Who controls are family?

Family we do.

And IT became clear that the real thing that people were angry about wasn't ethics in gaming, journalist number, whatever. IT was the fact that they thought this culture of video games, this culture that for decades have been dominated by Young men, the characters under attack, if you can set your politics and your bullshit down before you come and to our gaming shop, you ain't welcome there. And the threat was coming from the media.

Now the media is trying to reapply these negative stereotype to us along as a mediocre game contains the correct progressive political positions. It's considered ground breaking, innovative and progressives. These people that they called social justice warriors.

term social justice warrior, does not actually mean someone who's out for social where S.

U, W is. They want equality, but I don't think that they understand what true equality.

And IT wasn't just video .

game activists and femina rocking .

ruling comic books.

feminism ruined war, pretty IT spread to p culture, really, everything ruling our whole world.

That's what gamer gate is about. We're tired of this saying that world White, world mall, world straight and someone so forth.

I saw IT is like, see, they're trying to take everything over. They just want to make everything politically correct. You all these S, J, W, they are even trying to take our video games.

And IT was on the other side of game gate that this new kind of political identity emerged. And this identity, like I, didn't really fit into a traditional left, right, democrat, republican spectrum. In this identity, you could be pro gay marriage and pro mariana legalization.

You can even support medicare for all. But the core belief, like the central thing that animates you, is this power struggle against these dying old media gatekeepers who just wanna tell people what to think and enforce this restrictive, PC culture. You cannot make anyone .

else feel bad in the way we're going to get you. To never make anyone else feel bad is to have put the S, J, W. Thumbscrews right up your refer, right in your balls.

And so this stephon molino that we see in Caleb's watch history post game rogate, he's really come to embody this new political identity.

The media will praise people who are left us to multiple cultural st and blab a blah. And they will attack other people who want that way.

especially with a series of videos.

This is the truth about carl .

Marks that are are of variations on the truth about king.

Please arrest .

about historical figures, political leaders.

but more often about, this is the truth about israel and I. This is the truth about slavery.

the Brown .

and the ferguson right? The truth about immigration. This is the truth. This is the truth. The truth about the movie frozen.

the format of these videos, is pretty much the same. Every time he lays out first the kind of official explanation for something that happened in the news.

CNN went with the headline team shot by police days before a college, continuing the gentle giant narrative.

and then he sort of breaks IT down and tells you, here's what really happened.

So the video that we saw, and according to a police report, Brown and his friend dorian Johnson were preferred a strong armed robbery with store staff and stealing a box guys instead.

and saying, basically look like, i'm no expert, but I can see that this official explanation is not right now.

This gentle giant, Michael Brown, recorded a collection of rap tracks with friends and posted.

but I am gna give you the .

truth lyrics. I guess you could call them go something like this. I just want a real bitch, smoke dope and kills shit. But if we can chAllenge the narrative and resh.

no bias, no spin, no fancy cameras.

no makeup. why? Because I actually do some research right before I create a video. You know, IT may not be the end of the world to do a little less foundation on the skin and little bit more foundation in critical thinking.

I was chasing truth, you know, I had this analogy I had that I thought of. I was like inDiana Jones with my know explores, had on and stuff like said hair. Look at this cave. Look, there's knowledge down there, right? The truth is down there, and you've got to go down and dig for IT.

So looking through the .

early amounts of callup s watch history .

and IT was an uncomfortable truth, and I accepted that. And that's what made me even more compelling.

You really see that stephon moler kw was the first step into the rabbit hole for him. And because kale would watch stone moon new and then go on these long binges where he would just watch recommended video. After recommended video, you can really see like in detail, where the algorithm .

is taking him next to.

So for example, on thursday, july seventeen, s had exactly eleven twenty seven A M clip clicks on a music video for a song called california son by the reviewer.

Dies and gentlemen from the dark north of canada, the White north.

And then he clicks over a joe rog.

There's a lot of these ideas that you have said that are very controversial that we're going to give you .

an opportunity who is interviewing .

who else and one of positions .

criticised or one of the other things that get tossed out you is the term as oggi st.

And for like three hour IT means general .

hatred of all women, that I made a really bad choice of .

you to get married. Caleb, watching his favorite youtube s talk about his favorite youtube videos.

You do a lot of these, the truth about people.

and you debate a little bit.

a lot of these ideas. They're not. It's not. These aren't essentially black and White issues. And when you start people .

who have issues with me or or disagree with things, so I say you have Better reason, evidence. fantastic. I am.

I've done. And then I can see that the very next video that he gets recommended.

I've been looking forward to doing this part caps for .

you again for a while is another joe rogan interview with define more.

I feel quite a strong urgency that is a race of asset.

The birth of the internet will be by far.

And then again.

he watches .

them talk for another three hours.

I think were at a time I think you down S.

I cross. I .

didn't talk about a lot of things. I.

And then you can see kalo goes on this long music.

He logs off for a few hours, and when he comes back at three forty in the morning, he plays hours .

of classical .

music. The next day.

saturday, july .

eighteenth.

which of times .

you get .

picked?

And skipping head in his viewing history passed some more of a moonie and some musical interludes.

Sorry to say that the most brazen and truth always come from the left.

You can see that kale gets a recommendation for someone totally knew what .

the game gate movement did, was proved that IT is possible to beat .

the less malian ops provocator .

IT was the first time that ordinary people prove that you could beat the .

feminist wackers milo yus. He's this one point british guy who is fully embrace.

My say is, women can be funny. The role of international? No, they can. I mean, I can't think with examples.

He was a major figure in gamer gate, and then he got hired by Steve ban on at bright bar.

Everywhere in the world there is islam. You will find women oppressed, homosexuals murdered. Ganging rate. Now there's a unique to fun.

my new and he's not just talking into his web cam. He's actually going out to college campuses and on talk shows and podcast.

We're in a situation now where students can go to university. They come out dumb than when they went in. They are infantilized by safe space and trigger warning culture .

and became breakup. Its first break out .

star is a wonderful ly.

And then after that, kalou gets recommended, this other new guy.

these feminists are the absolute weakest among them, Stephen crowd. They can handle content that might be upsetting. They need to be warm. They need to make terms like Michael gresh.

He's this comedian. He did a shorts stint at fox news, and then he became huge on youtube.

Like lives matter listed, their dems black only cultural spaces, the name of equality. They are demanding .

segregation just for scale. He's got like four point four millions of scribers, which is about twice as many as the new york times.

These women demand that you don't say anything, that they don't like the man, the man that you put the bill for their health care, for their he's got .

a lot in common with stuff in my loves.

You are demand to not only approve, tolerate, but please them.

But what makes them different is that he's the first straight up conservative that has entered Caleb youtube diet.

We've been told how great barack obama has been for national security because .

for some of in london was killed. Stephen crowder is a constitutional.

is conservative. Have syrian refugees, the verge been caught with fake passports?

Trying to get IT was.

listen a lot of him. And what's particularly interesting about this piece of chaos youtube history is that we don't just have his viewing history. We also have his search history. And we can see right here that after he gets recommended, Stephen crowder videos the .

deeds of yale, or president of yale, they told them his job was to create a safe space for people. His job wasn't to educate.

He then goes looking for more of them. And he goes on all of these other side benches that start with Stephen crowder, which is how he meets another new character.

And Gavin begin, thank you for being on .

the show ser gain. Hello.

good morning.

I am here to make the case for western shovin ism.

I saw Gavin on Stephen crowd's podcast, and so i'd typing gaven s name, and I start watching his content.

I started this game called the proud boys. We have chapters all .

over the world. Gavin is really a singular character in all this. He one of the confounders of vice magazine back in the day and helped pioneer this like hipster aesthetic. He has a big beard and wear skinny jeans. Like, he looks like someone you would like run into at the food cop.

You go to these, you pro black cop ralles, and they're screaming with soviet science and like stuff.

And milo and Steven crowder, he considers himself edgy.

They make up all this fake science, and then they come storming at you and they say, White male patriarch is rapping women. White men are the reason. The sexism you.

but he takes things a lot further than other people they care of has been watching, especially when IT comes to race. In two .

thousand and five, ten White men raped black women. Thirty seven thousand black men raped White woman. Now, I don't want to make IT about race, but if you want to go there, we can go there. And the numbers aint pretty lady.

Then throughout the next part of his watch history, you can see that one name really starts dominating basically everything else. Laun southern y reporters like .

Rachel matto and publications like the huffington post and heat street have become a lapping stock among the right and left further ignorance on how the internet and its culture works.

So ern, she's this twenty five year old canadian libertarian who in two thousand and fifteen ran for parliament and SHE lost. But in the process, SHE built a pretty big youtube channel, which in some ways I made her more powerful than if SHE gotta elected .

to parliament. It's laun. He was. And I just gotten a huge confrontation with the slight walk, which we are following right now.

When I first so learned, he was at the slight walks.

hy IT, let's go follow the walk.

SHE is beautiful. SHE was around my age.

You are attacking our camera.

man. Her big break at moment was when he interpreted these slit walks, these sexual assault protests that we're happening all over north amErica .

sign that said, we are not living in a rape culture in the west.

He would go up to feminists and try to debate them.

Raps don't get high. Five, the government finding rapist.

She's basically doing the same gono activism that Michael Moore was doing ten years earlier, but she's doing IT. On the other side of the culture war.

there is a group of women network here and there wishing to a draw consent to use a footage that you had, I guess, scotland. So you can just withdraw and send the next like interest that interesting tell me I like a rally for like consent and like there's saying no when you're saying that, okay, so if someone gives consent the night before and then they need to listen if they have sex with the man and they give consent him, then the next day to IDE all I regret IT i'm in a report in for being a rapist even though I game consent you're saying that's okay.

So out of all the youtube s that Caleb has watched laun southern, she's really the most like him. She's Young SHE drop at a college. SHE is a fan of the same youtube ers that he is. And SHE really kind of brings all these ideas together in these dramatic, real world confrontations. I was like.

who's this? And I was like, she's out their own in the lives and given a faction logic OK.

if you wanted, know what my means. My sign means that this is not a rape culture, because rapists go to prison here, go to africa, you will see a real rape culture.

And at this point, like Caleb says that this all feels like the same edge rock stuff he was into a high school. It's just that what is punk ck has changed.

There was this counter culture .

element to the new camp.

to culture.

I don't why the why White males have to tip to around, we are the punk rock kids, right? And everyone else has just, what do we want their cups? What everyone's raises.

the one pushing back against status of like this, a lot globalists like liberal society, I don't know.

the most media knows just how many people are following in the wake assembling what they're building because I just keep doing.

I have really good news. You, I just heard that the press is stuck on their airplane. They can get here I love.

And that's what trump was. trump. L was that figure that was going .

to come in and reverse at all? Could you wait? I said, absolutely not. Let's get going.

Let's get going.

New hampshire.

There's a lots of things I hate about the republicans, but you had to vote for trap.

So Kevin IT feels like just in this first year of Caleb watch history, he's come quite a long way from the guy who was excited about bar obama or who wanted to study environmental science in college rate. And IT feels to me like it's happening .

really quickly. Yeah but all of the stuff that Caleb is going through and experiencing IT all lies up with these changes that are happening at youtube the very same year.

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So throughout two thousand thousand and two thousand fifty, youtube is growing and insane and and a lot is because of this A I that giles .

helped .

build get .

on our our french friend.

We got a billion users at seeing .

accelerating .

usage growth.

More of the same, more of the same. But around two thousand and fifteen, after a game was gone, youtube realized that in order to keep growing, yet had to do a version of a thing that he had been talking about. IT couldn't just keep showing people more and more videos about the things that they were interested in.

IT had to show them new videos on new subjects, new topics featured new people. IT had to actually expand their tastes, including things they didn't even know that one. So youtube calls in google brain.

It's the best A, I P, H D in the world. They're publishing the most papers. They're winning the most awards. Like this is the eighteen of ai. And they come in and their job is to the engineer the recommendations algorithm around this new AI technique called the deep neural network, which is this A I technique that is supposed to mimic the way the human brain processes information.

And basically what you do is you give IT a whole bunch of data, in this case, like billions and billions of data points about what people are watching on youtube. And you instruct the AI to go out and find patterns and connections in that data, including stuff that no human would ever think to make, connections and patterns that no human could ever find. And then you use those connections to recommend paths for people that can draw them into new subject areas that can get them interested in new things that can make them watch not just one more video or two more videos.

but like five hundred .

new videos.

That's really what feminism is. It's a giant suicide bomber. And if you look .

at canos watch history, that's when he starts getting introduced to all these new characters.

IT only leads to death and suffering.

The idea trying to show that women are real people too.

And when he gets a new job, and then i'd got my second .

job at the warehouse, we are actually allowed to listen ear phones, packing boxes in a warehouse. I put things in the boxes. So it's pretty much by myself.

his youtube watch time skyrockets even more.

There is a war at the moment between the west.

and is women are not an oppressed .

class in the west.

There is no now prefer party preserving western night.

He's actually spending all day .

from sun up to sun down online.

The people in the bad cultures want to get .

to the good culture, not even down, because I .

doesn't go to my put the phone next right next .

to my head and I would just be run in youtube all night.

Thank you guys so much for watching, and thank you so much to my amazing patr and supporters who make IT so that i'm able to talk about this scary.

And I did feel very connected with these people.

Thank you so much for your patients and time and care and attention has always this is all supported by you. Yes, you not. No, no. On the guys.

as I can know, if only learn a new high I was.

we'd be friends.

If staff knew who I was, we'd be friends. It's just that i'm disconnected from these people because i'm stuck in west Virginia.

If you look through Caleb's doing history and at at all up, he washed about four thousand videos in two thousand and sixteen, which is double the number he had the previous year. And around this time, like youtube, es overall viewing time was ratched up so much that in sixteen they reached the smile stone of a billion hours a day being watched on youtube.

When you get an oversupply of lies, you get a demand for truth and just raises the demand. And I think that the alternative media, bringing just evidence.

to put that in perspective, a billion hours is equal to one hundred and fourteen thousand .

years that is in same.

So every day on youtube, people collectively around the world are getting up and watching one hundred and fourteen thousand years worth the videos.

We could have .

colonized bars .

by my only source .

of information with youtube.

This is no longer like a site where you go to watch a video. It's the soundtrack to people's life.

I was only listening to staff, Lawrence southern game mechanic. I was not taking my news from anywhere else.

And these alternative media figures, these people that call up, has been following and watching. They're becoming bigger. Then a lot of the mainstream media actions that they're criticising.

I built the show from nothing to you coming up to three hundred million views .

and downloads that started back in two thousand six on youtube. Back then, eg, atheism and liberals. M dominated all beauty.

It's amazing how things have change. Google is a calculate. It's just an algorithm, and the algorithm shows.

And you can see in his viewing history, after the election, like late twenty sixteen, early twenty seventeen.

you thought I was gonna lose wrong. You thought Hillary was gonna win wrong.

That's on the tone of the videos that kale is watching. Has to say you.

because you're a fucking White man who gets to do whatever he wants to in this space.

stops feeling to him like a culture war, and IT starts feeling like an actual war. Angry .

demonstrators taking turn being a paper. My hade lightness of trump with .

a bad I would watch S, J, W, social justice, or your crying can take .

your village somewhere else.

do not be a spectator in the most important battle in history.

And kill started to notice around this time that he wasn't the same person, that he wasn't high school.

And I now call myself a civic national.

He is changing.

It's not just for america, not just for britain, for the identity of the west. It's under attack from radical islam, from cultural marxism.

And I noticed that we all were progressively becoming more and more .

right wing now when he sees a video of Richard Spencer and open White nationalist for us as europeans, IT is only Normal again when we are great again. Hell, trump, hal, our people. Hell, Victory actually feels like they have something in common. I remember .

even Richard Spencer going to the hotel and dc.

to be White is to be a striver.

And you doing the hail trump and doing the eko.

we don't exploit other groups. They need us and not the other way around.

And I remember defending him. I thought, look, it's his right to do that and it's his free speech. And they are not that's not a nazi salute. It's a roman salute.

And and I remember saying things like, you know, if they want White nations, if they want their own little corner of the country and they all voluntarily move there and do that, that's fine. Immigrants come to this country and do that all the time. There's a china town. There's any know all these things. So IT was like, I saw that is like, but that's their freedom to do so.

And like there are some distance between the Richard Spencer White nationalist movement and like kilos, very youtube ers to find Molly was not having Richard Spencer like on his channel.

But I think that White identity and White nationalism is a little misleading. I think it's more accurate to say that the all right cares about west and supremacy rather than a White supremacy.

is about a lot of them are starting to filiation themselves.

I do think that the right overall is going to be changing to a movement that is going more alright.

actually, with this group that Richard Spencer played .

a hero and starting so arted with this guy, Richard spender, he came up with the name, alright, alternative, right? And I like this guy. I like debating the alright.

what's the alright or alternative, right? Some members hold distinctive positions on sex, roads, trade, free markets and foreign policy. But they all agree on one thing, equality is a dangerous myth.

Over time, in his youtube history, you see that kale gets recommended videos s by this guy named Jerry Taylor.

For some reason, Jerry Taylor got into .

my algorithm. What IT comes to race. I was certainly just as ignored .

as you and your tailor. He's a little different than the other people that killed .

spend watching IT was with great reluctance that I say goodbye to all of these happy fantasies about how we are all sensually replaceable and everyone is the same.

He's older. He wears like suits and has a master's degree.

Jared Taylor, for some reason he was soft spoken, well mannered, presentable looking.

He's not a youtube .

r the science of he tells us that some people will always be above average. Some people, people.

He was a professional racist before ka was born. And his big project has been to kind of make racism respectable by dressing IT up in all this quasi scientific language. And so when club season, he's talking about something .

called race realism. Race realism, you know, the differences in IQ among the races, and saying that that explained why black people are in poverty and why asians are doing so well in the country.

These are biological facts. There are not so logical construct I thought .

will look at IT you can see in reality.

But what he does haven't common with the other youtube bars that killed .

as what so much vital data on these questions is essentially kept underground, is that he frames .

his views as a kind of secret knowledge we have all from nature. And that wants you see the logic behind IT and how .

things are you see. That is the truth. This is the natural world, and this is you. Black people grow up in africa, and why people grow in europe. And this is just how IT is and all this stuff that I never.

ever believe before. And then at some point, he says he started to do more than just watch youtube videos.

I would have arguments with people, and I would try to convince people on things like race realism and mass immigration.

Thing I want to talk about today is the great replacement.

I'd talk to people that I saw us intelligence. And I said, you need to have more kids.

The funny thing is, is that if White people really cared about the world, they would very much wish to preserve White culture.

You know, intelligent people are dying out.

I'm sure you're aware of what is called the great replacing the fact that in every western country, the proportion of weights drops every year.

Do you really think that the european people in culture are replaced with in a generation with no consequences?

Did you read the new zealand shooters manifesto?

Read about the first fifteen pages? IT was exactly what I believed, not the violence, but the great replacement. That's what I call IT. All those things.

That's how I saw the world.

That was what I believed.

Yes, so. When did you feel your views shifting again?

So um.