“No Alarm, No Notifications to my phone… literally nothing happened just found it like this…” wrote Cybertruck owner Anuj Thakker, who shared the upsetting news on Facebook a few days ago.

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      2 months ago

      Imagine if you subscribed to a YouTuber and they had good content. You subscribe to their patreon. At some point later, they take on a bunch of sponsorships, and eventually they just become a corporate mouthpiece for their sponsors. Then their entire channel just gets bought by the corporation and is ran as a corporate social media account. At what point would you cancel your Patreon subscription? Would you say that refusing to pay that YouTuber for their videos means that you have a part to play in the process whereby they ultimately ended up as a corporate social media account?

      Because that is ultimately what happened with the media, in my opinion.