Comment by johnnyanmac 5 hours ago
You say most highly viewed content. I then click on "popular" and then I see 6-10 minute edited videos, and the 30+ minute ones are highlight reels.
I see thr regular videos top out at 10m. I click on shorts and they top out at 32m. His most popular non-short just misses the top 10 videos when compared with the shorts.
And then all this is on YouTube. I bet his Facebook or Instagram has much higher viewed content. So I'm not convinced.
Okay. My point wasn't that there aren't unedited videos out there. I acknowledged that. It was "They won't ever venture out and see the full context.". If thrres a 10m view clip and the full lovestream has 500k views, thats 95% of the audience without the full context.
The 2nd video is also a highlight reel of different segments edited together, so I'm not sure what you're showing here. There's still room to edit out any people they didn't like. Just because they show the full segment for one person doesn't mean they show them all.
But i feel we're way off topic at this point so I'll cut it off here.
The 2nd video is not a highlight reel. It's literally just a video of him doing what he does at the University of Pittsburg - inviting people up and having a debate/discussion. None of the conversations have been removed, edited, or changed in any way whatsoever. You can watch the transition between each debate to confirm for yourself.
The clip, which involves an attractive girl flashing him in the middle of a debate, and is literally the most viewed video on his channel - has 10m views. The full stream from that event has 8.4m views. In any case I'd again emphasize that even that clip is not taken out of context. It includes the complete and unedited discussion with the girl.
Click on the longer videos. The overwhelming majority are literally unedited footage of him debating people. Even the shorter clips are complete and unedited. The most popular video [1] is of the girl who shows up and tries her hardest to troll and insult him. Here [2] is the in-context segment. It is literally the exact same thing, but just with her 'segment' snipped out of the series of debates.
The only out of context clips are when people are trying to misrepresent him, the things he says, or the way that he generally behaves towards the people he debates/discusses with. For instance the widely disseminated clip where he speaks against the term empathy, which is edited to remove the clip and subsequent context where he talks about it being exploited and abused, and much preferring the term sympathy - which he feels is less susceptible to exploitation.
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk4Nkmfgxzk
[2] - https://youtu.be/U_BY2ENwPyA?t=349