OH NO! If that’s the audience, I don’t want to be popular – Freethought Blogs

This is an odd looking graph of traffic to my latest YouTube video.

You might want to congratulate me on that sudden surprising surge of traffic in the middle of the night, but dont. Apparently, thats when the magical YouTube algorithm started recommending the video to others, and it brought an influx of Peterson worshippers, as the comments reveal.

all these years and you still cant get 10 k subs??? JP just hit 5 million and growing. Youre in the final stage of your life, stop being so jelous. Btw, you shpould check out JPs interview with Roger Penrose, eat your heart out.

But heres the thing: Im not concerned about traffic. I look at the most popular videos on the medium, and its garbage like Pewdiepie and the Paul brothers and bizarre twisted animated childrens videos designed to milk clicks out of babies. Im content with my tiny little niche. Ive also got a real job, fortunately, and the $50 my channel brings in every month is fine.

Then there are the feeble defenses of Peterson:

Peterson clearly states that what he is saying is highly speculative. If your going to critique the man at least do it honestly.

Theres a whole bit in my video where I point out that Peterson is flinging about the word speculation as a get-out-of-jail-free card. Useful speculation has to be built on some kind of empirical, testable framework. Peterson is lazy and doesnt do the work of justifying it.

Most common, though, are the people who deny his transphobia (the thing that made him famous!) and have a knee-jerk hatred of social justice.

I realize Petersons claims about consciousness traveling up and down the micro and macro levels is nonsense, but so are the accusations of transphobia towards Peterson and Dawkins. Myers never really bothers to explain how theyre transphobic. At least not in this video. I think Myers should maybe spend more time investigating his own biases and irrationalism than those of Peterson if he has such obvious blind spots.

I thought Petersons transphobic comments have been so thoroughly covered elsewhere that I didnt have to discuss them, and could focus on where he intrudes stupidly on my area of expertise, biology. I guess I was wrong. Do I need to make my next video about that? Id rather not, because Peterson is such a twit.

Of course, there are still swarms of anti-SJW clowns out there.

I am not going to talk much about Peterson, but here is my problem. PZ Myers is supposed to be a scientist and yet he lets social justice which has nothing to do with Science leak in.

I help a Transgender person overseas and help feed him and fix his bike, so this isnt about hate or anything, but pronouns and having many sexes is against the Scientific data.Its more like a problem with the mind itself and social justice should not be mixed with Science.

This is why I am upset, because if you are a Scientist, you should have NOTHING TO DO WITH STUFF THATS NOT SCIENCE AT ALL, its more pseudoscience than actual real science.

Disappointed in you PZ, I thought you would be better than that.

This is really shameful and I think thats worse than whatever Peterson is going on about.

What Scientific data is against pronouns and having many sexes? I suspect he couldnt name anything.

Im also unsurprised that there are people who think social justice should not be mixed with Science, but then have no problem at all with the irrational, unjust garbage that Peterson freely mixes in to his science-free babbling.

I guess Im going to have to make more spider videos to flush away these clowns and get my traffic down where its supposed to be.

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