Somebody is watching the videos and giving these Dutch guys money via YouTube views. It makes me angry that CBC didn’t push a bit harder to try and find out why these Dutch guys thought to start separatist YouTube channels. Why did they think it would make money, particularly since the movement only has a bare few percent support and only in Alberta? And what are their viewership statistics?
CBC only went far enough to say “nothing to see here, just some Dutch guys making untraceable money on something that they have no earthly reason to know about and even less of a reason to suspect would be profitable, because under normal circumstances it absolutely would not be.”
The whole thing stinks like bullshit, and CBC dropped the ball. We are all way too fucking complacent for the magnitude of these problems and the forces driving them.
I think you’re suffering from the same lack of curiosity that the CBC suffers.
I want to know why random Dutch guys thought that it would be profitable to get into the separatist influencer game, and go through the effort of setting all this up in the first place. Why didn’t the CBC ask them why they even know about this issue or why they figured a maximum audience of 6% of the population of Alberta would be enough to give them thousands a month in income? What are their viewership statistics anyway?