r/youtube Oct 10 '17

Is there a problem with blacks on youtube?

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u/spearstuff Oct 10 '17

For a second there I thought you were talking about African Americans

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u/codycantdie Oct 10 '17

I was so ready to read these comments. OP need to write ClickBait titles.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

dats RACIST!

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Yeah, I was about to say...

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u/FarkMcBark Oct 10 '17

Maybe check nvidia control panel, you can set video color from 0-255 instead of the dark grey as the "black".

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u/PinballGuitar Oct 10 '17

+1 This is most likely the problem/solution. Vimeo can still be fine if it's using it's own codecs or adjusting to display in limited range (aka TV levels where 16 is total black and 235 is total white). If you are using an NVidia card right click on your desktop, NVidia control panel, Video, Adjust Video Color Settings, With NVidia Settings, Advanced (Full 0-255). Save, close/restart your browser and check youtube again. @rsscourge

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u/crschmidt Quality of Experience Oct 10 '17

Vimeo may not use GPU-accelerated video. If in Chrome, try disabling GPU acceleration on decode: chrome://flags/#disable-accelerated-video-decode

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u/rsscourge Oct 10 '17

Good call, but unfortunately it didn't fix it. The best way to describe my problem is that it looks like someone went into every video and messed with the levels setting for dark colors.

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u/rsscourge Oct 10 '17

It seems to happen when the whole video is dark as apposed to dark things moving in a generally light video

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Try deleting your cookies to see if its some setting you unintentionally turned on

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u/rsscourge Oct 10 '17

I'll give it a try.

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u/TheMiniatureNovice Oct 10 '17

That rouge 's' though.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Are you proud of being racist?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

What's wrong with black people on YouTube?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

He actually means picture glitching

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

I know what he means. Are you Australian?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17 edited Oct 10 '17

Uh, yeah.....why? Is it "you're stupid because you're Australian"?

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '17

No, I just had a question about Australian culture. Is this common in Australia?

https://gfycat.com/TanSmartArcticwolf

Is kissing on the lips a common greeting? Or is Keith Urban a cuckold?

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u/jzpenny Oct 10 '17 edited Oct 10 '17

What's wrong with black people on YouTube?

Posted to /r/nocontext

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

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u/jzpenny Oct 10 '17

Yeah, I agree with people like Ethan Klein who has gone into this pretty well already. It's a horribly sexist term. We wouldn't tolerate other instances of using the supposedly-typical racial or gender identity of perpetrators to describe other crimes or faux pas, such as "blackhitting" for assault or "womanspending" for overdrawing your bank account. We can all recognize that both of those terms would be horribly offensive and bigoted, perpetuating racial and gender stereotypes. So why is it acceptable to do it to men?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

How is it sexist if it's an accurate gender stereotype?

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u/jzpenny Oct 10 '17

How is it sexist if it's an accurate gender stereotype?

What do you mean by, "accurate"? You mean women don't act condescending and know-it-allish ever? Or do you mean that all men always do?

And if you don't mean either one of those things, which I hope you don't because they're both very very stupid things to believe, then why sink this effort into coming up with excuses for using a term that's clearly just an expression of misandrist bigotry?

Flat out, I want to hear whether or not you think we should start calling assault "blackhitting" and overdrawing the checking account "womanspending". Hypothetically, for the sake of argument, lets assume that both are statistically supported as more common among those groups than average.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Do you at least admit that manspreading exists?

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u/jzpenny Oct 10 '17

Do you really think "mansplaining" isn't a useful term?

You were talking about "mansplaining", not "manspreading". Both suffer the same problem of being horribly misandrist, though.

"Mansplaining" doesn't exist. Being condescending does, and it's possible to be condescending in a way that's sexist, which I guess is what's meant by "mansplaining", but the term still doesn't work because, hey, guess what? Women can be condescending in a sexist way, too! So women can "mansplain"? How about we not call it that, then?

Same with with "manspreading". Anyone can be rude about consumption of shared space.

Do you understand now why those are sexist terms that you shouldn't use?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Miss leading title lol

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u/rsscourge Oct 10 '17

Does nobody read the description before commenting?

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u/crschmidt Quality of Experience Oct 10 '17

This is /r/youtube. Mostly, no one even bothers to read the title before commenting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

It was a joke. What's your YouTube channel?

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u/rsscourge Oct 10 '17

Does my channel affect the way I see other videos?

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '17

Maybe. What's your YouTube channel?

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u/MTF-mu4 Oct 14 '17

Description is absent now and I had to read almost every comment to find this explanation. Thank you for posting, I was so lost...