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Episode Date: January 7, 2025

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Today I'm going to talk about one of the biggest controversies in the world of advertising on YouTube. One of the biggest advertisers of the story of YouTube, Oni, who belongs to the PayPal company. And under the magnifying glass, an independent YouTube investigative journalist who exposed that it was a scam. It's a company that offers an extension on Chrome to find promo codes.

It's one of the main ones. Oh, yes, I think I read it. Ok, I was going to talk about a virtual companion called Friend and which will be launched this year in Canada and the United States. So, first quarter of 2025, it's likely to arrive soon and I had the honor to talk with one of the chatbots yesterday. Without further ado, the DG News! Ta-da!

DG News I shared with my children the decision that I share with you all today. I have the order to resign from my position as Prime Minister. DG News Zara, winners! attache Vautuque Bye bye On the bye bye, they saw me make an appearance where I said I wanted to put the H in Radio Canada. It's my Olivier Fecteau who called me and said, do you want to play that? And there are people who wrote to me saying, do you really want to do that?

What would you like to do? What would you like to happen in Radio Canada? Well, I started because we talked about it a little in the last few weeks. And it was the New Year, the in-and-out. I watched the bye bye on Twitch. I'm still disappointed by the bye bye, but I feel like it's the standard opinion to say that we are disappointed. I saw a lot of people who liked it and I can't understand why people actually like the Bye Bye. Simo Ali Effecto tweeted after to say, I see a lot of comments saying that the Bye Bye was woke, I'm a lot of things in life but I'm not a woke. So tell me what woke was in the Bye Bye.

I found it interesting because in the Bye bye, there are jokes that are made depending on the woke-ness of the Canadian radio. But we're in hyper reality because the Canadian radio is not necessarily woke. I think it's more woke. When I see woke, it's from the left performative. That's how I call woke. So the Canadian radio is really woke. They may recover some struggles. The identity politics, that's what it is. Because the joke in Bye Bye is someone who has to do a techie thing,

who has to replace a camera, and he goes to fill in a form at Radio Canada and they're like ok, but what are your pronouns? And that's like the anti-woke joke in Bye Bye. Ok yeah. I think it was full of common places, full of ok, yes, Northvolt, the casino, yes, Quebec TV is poorly funded,

another call to finance our TV more. I find that there were plenty of topics that were not addressed at all. In Canada, in Quebec, there is a big housing crisis, people have the trouble of living alone. I find that it comes back to the main topic, where to live, where to raise a family, where to have access to property. But basically, it's the primary needs. When you think about living alone, it cuts, being in safety, sleeping, protecting yourself from cold and heat. I think it was such an obvious thing to talk about this year.

I just put it out there. I didn't listen to the bye-bye. The wish I made for the bye-bye in December, saying that I wanted it to be inspired a little more by the web culture, to do sketches on it, we didn't really have it. We did a kind of slam rap on the male artists. And then after the Kodéco were released, they were on the bottom of last year, we still report that 3 million people would have watched the bye bye, what do I doubt? But I think the attraction of this kind of show, among other things,

is the idea of watching something live. At the same time as everyone. Because there is a live show and it is a federated experience. We don't have that many moments like that in a streaming era, for example. And there was even a controversy because the countdown, and I didn't watch it live, it was just on the interworld timetables. The countdown in the bye bye, in the decision of Canada, was 10 seconds late. So there are a lot of people who missed the New Year because the bye bye had been badly timed. I don't know if it's true, if you can confirm it.

That's really the loss of confidence towards the media. It's total. Hugo Dumas made a criticism saying that Bye Bye was less good than his ads. I saw ads for Bye Bye, there were good ones. And I just saw that in the air to people who work in marketing. But I think that if we have a TV event like that every year that is like our Super Bowl, it's comparable in terms of the percentage of the population that listens to it, the ads for Bye Bye should be treated like the ads for the Super Bowl. I saw some on TikTok like Mondou, who published his ad for R Canada, I saw him, but someone reposted it.

But what do you mean that we should treat them as at the Super Bowl? What does that imply now? At the Super Bowl, there's like a kind of campaign to deploy ads. A few days before the ad, we're going to tease it, we're going to make a series that brings it to the advertising. It is revealed during the Super Bowl and from the moment it is broadcasted at the Super Bowl, it is published on the internet. So you can watch it even if you don't watch it. So it becomes a part of the entertainment too. And the commitment that is generated too.

It's like that in the future, the future of the advertising of Bye Bye. Because marketing companies, it's their big moment. The big advertising companies, it's like, let's say that they realize 4 advertising of Bye Bye. Because marketing companies, it's their big moment. The big advertising companies, it's like, let's say, Pessette has made 4 ads in Bye Bye, they're like, we have 4 in Bye Bye. And it's also the moment for people to comment on all these marketing strategies.

It's already a type of content that is quite predominant on the web. People like to talk about marketing. Pepsi made an ad because it tried to take the game business again. The kind of I saw the wolf, the fox, the lion. I drink again, I saw the wolf, the fox, the lion. I saw the wolf, the fox, the lion. I found it a bad ad anyway,

and Koukaku hits the circuit with an ad for Jean-Pierre Ferland. I don't feel my skin anymore, weighting like before. And a ball of gum would would you be a man? Historically, Pepsi has been the best advertising company in Quebec. Quebec has already been the only place in North America where Pepsi was more popular than Coke. I find it funny that these multinationals do commercials just for Quebec. Coke, which does a commercial for Jean-Pierre Ferlence. And we call it localization.

It's a process of cultural translation. I think that since I watched them live on Twitch, I was like primed, I didn't like them. I didn't even focus that much, I tried to do jokes. I would like to re-check them ultimately, but I think that there was still a missed opportunity to do better sketches. Because after, what's interesting too, the sketches are bye bye, and then I'm not on Facebook, so maybe they circulate a lot on Facebook. But I haven't seen one pop on my TikTok or Twitter or on Instagram. Everyone who didn't see it checked this sketch, how iconic it is. I saw reactions from people like Pizza Salvatore who got gassed or the guy Sébastien Delorme who got spoofed

in the back. I saw them react but there wasn't a sketch where everyone was like yo check this it's fucking funny. We're going to have to make an episode about the Pizza family. Well, they're the Kardashians, they're next level. I've been talking about them for a long time. What was your chat saying? What was the consensus of the chat? They said it was the worst bye bye of the story before I started.

There's a very strong criticism from the right-wing Twitter, right-wing Quebec. That's how I call it, but I don't really have a word yet. Humor and diversity in Quebec is really low-end and really shit-talking. We've already talked about it, it's true that we have a carnivalous humour too. And I think that in Bye Bye, that's where you can see it best. I think it's interesting too because we had already talked about it together after reading a book, but humour itself is central in Quebec culture. It takes up a lot more space than elsewhere.

It's the only extremely profitable cultural industry in Quebec. Which works, yeah. An ecosystem that is unique for such a small population to have so much humor. I think it's because we lost on the plains, but it's my analysis, my thesis. To be continued. To meditate. I talked about the attack on the Belli car that happened in New Orleans, and it's going to be a little longer than 5 minutes.

The horrible news coming out of New Orleans is just a terrifying way to start the new year. This is an image of the 42-year-old suspect, Shamsid Din Jabbar, whose real estate videos are now going viral because people are identifying him as the man who rammed people on Bourbon Street in New Orleans yesterday. So last Wednesday, January 1st, on the night of the 31st, an American military officer who had a flag of the Islamic group in his vehicle and who ran with his car on a crowd celebrating New Year and killed 15 people and about thirty injured. It happened in New Orleans, in the South of the United States.

And then we learned that the person who was responsible for this act was called Sam Soud, Din Jabbar. He's the father of three children. He was born in Texas, divorced twice. And now I can necessarily analyze the motivations of his crime, but after everything I read about him, he was living like a financial crisis. It wasn't a personal crisis. He wasn't able to pay his mortgage.

Because of his two divorces, he had several family loans to pay. So he was in a crisis situation. What interests me in this news is the speech that was heard around, in particular a video that circulated that the New York Post published the day after the attack and several articles. In the video, we see a New York Post journalist, Jenny Thayer, who is doing a house tour, so a guided tour, filmed, of the supposed killer's mark. We're here inside the New Orleans terrorist home. Who's hitting? It's mostly the comments at the beginning that hit me. home. And in the end, it would be the state's operations to control the discourse. It's a way to target misinformation, a form of propaganda.

People write to the Pusaya about conspiracy and generally question also on the authenticity of the famous video, because the FBI would have given this access to the New York Post in the middle of an investigation, one day after the facts, after the attack. Why can a New York Post journalist enter the house of this man who is under investigation? It's been just 37 hours since the attack took place. Not just that, it's been only 8 hours since the FBI left the scene when the reporter of the New York Post entered. And we really see her entering this house that was raided by the secret services.

When she left the house after the Young Post shoot, the FBI returned to the house and completed its investigation. So it wasn't even over yet. I see nothing in the media, as they say, of heritage that talked about it. It was just in the comments. There are media right now that are starting to publish articles because someone in the US States found it weird too. We were having doubts about this process or this permission that would have given the FBI. I don't want to fall into conspiracy theories because I really feel that it's proliferating right now. And it seems that even men who are going to target people, who are going to kill people and their violence, it instrumentalizes this kind of social dynamic, the conspiracy theory,

because we live, as we often say, there is a porosity right now between what is true and what is false. And it can even be used by people who, for example, would like to commit suicide or live crises in their lives or psychologically, to magnify their act or their suicide. That's not what interests me about the person's motivations. What I want to emphasize is the way the New York Post covered this crime, the media framing of facts. Because we can imagine that this type of event, like a car-killing attack, will tend to increase Islamophobia, which is already in the media discourse.

And it can be very well instrumentalized, no matter the motivations of the killers, to justify political facts, attacks, wars, etc. Because it has already been the case in the past. When things happen, there is a fringe, in fact, many kinds of political fringes already call for the manufacture of consent, and they are like, oh no, they want to convince us

to make a war in Iran, that's what Trump wants to do. It's direct, all the speeches in all directions are embarked on when the world calls on the false flag. We're talking about the creation of consent, which is an expression drawn from a essay written by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman. But there's also a film available on the UNF. It's available on YouTube, but it's a UNF film.

Ah, ok. We'll put it in the show notes if you want to listen to it. But that's it, they're talking about the, but it's a UNF movie. Okay, we'll put it in the show notes if you want to listen to it, but that's what they're talking about. The fact that there is a certain propaganda that is spread in the media, an instrument of ideological communication that aims to legitimize foreign policy in certain countries like the United States. So if we go to war against XYP in the Middle East, we will justify it in a certain way. Before getting into the video, I will comment on the New York Post article entitled An Inside Look into the NOLA's Terrorist, Hostin' Lair. I often do critical analysis of discourses and I'm interested in the words we use.

So instead of saying house, we say lair. What does lair mean in French? It means tanner, spot or hound. So we really feel like we're dealing with a wild beast, an animal, a wolf, an owl, not an animal. What does Lair mean in French? It means a I order Uber Eats and unwavered clothes. It's like, if in the world, let's put Twitch and everything. Yeah, like... I'm going to put the article in the notes again, but it's just to say that the house itself, when you see it, because we're not filming ourselves, we're not showing any videos, but the visual, it's a house that is cleaner and newer than mine.

It's literally clean. And yes, there are things that are a little messy, but you also have to remember that it's post-raid. So, literally, the secret forces raided the house. And it's written in the article that it's a Ramshackle Texas Trailer Home. So, a caravan wrecked in Texas. After that, it says The Home, a squalid trailer. The house, a sordid caravan.

And then it says It's cheap furniture tossed around. It's cheap furniture thrown around. And that's really not what I see. The article is classified under the keywords ISIS, Islam, New Orleans, New Year's attack, terrorism and the date. And for me, this framing really allowed to draw a direct link, a correlation between terrorism and Islam. But I find it even more insidious because this idea is starting to grow because this man is a born and raised Texas. He's a Texan.

He wasn't even Muslim and he converted later. As if there was something viscerally evil in the Arabian man. Even if he was born in the United States, even if he was an American soldier who served his country, even if he wasn't religious, there's something

in his heart that could wake up at any moment by a process called radicalization. But it's like at any moment of your life, if you go through something, a crisis, then boom, you'll be able to radicalize yourself by the mere fact that you're an Arab man. That means that your identity is essentially evil. It's like a ticking bomb, a bomb that threatens to explode at any moment, that can reveal itself at any moment. And it reminds me of the clip that circulated a lot this week of the Israeli lady that we interrogate about the children who died in Gaza.

Here we go. How many civilians have been killed in Gaza, from what you know? Who gives a shit? Okay, but don't you feel like, for example, children? Children grow up to be Arabs. We ask her, well, doesn't it make you feel something to hear that there are children, there are so many children who are dead? And she says, no, but they grow up to be Arabs. One day, they won't be children anymore, they will be Arabs. Arabs here are something that by definition is a threat, which also represents an imminent danger. There are a lot of visual elements in the video that are there to trace this link.

In the bedroom there is a keffiyeh, there are currents on a shelf, presented as something that is worrying. Okay, so let to watch the video. Lots of different chemicals played around and different electronics. This is again a work setup. There's an excerpt where she shows a computer desk with two screens

and things like a classier and a lamp. We see a lot of cards, we see a lot of things. We see a lot of things that a police officer lot of things. We see a lot of things that police officers took. Yeah, but Eddie, she calls it a work area. As if it was a place where illegal things were being done and Eddie says there are a lot of chemicals while I, I don't see any chemicals. There, Eddie says there are receipts hanging and that it's very unkempt in here. She says there are receipts that hang, and that it's very unkempt.

Again, left in disarray. What appears to be his collection of religious materials, his Koran, an open Koran with a passage there, as well as even the Bible here, but mostly books on Islam. She walks around in the salon, which is super chic. She sells an Ikea cute library with books in it, beautiful books well linked. It's an Ikea model that I was able to identify. It's the Calax at $179 Canadian plus tax.

There's a cute little plant on the top, there's a forged iron rice cooker, a nice candle. She also walks around in her room. And there are all her clothes that are really well placed on the scenes properly. And coincidentally, I don't know, there's a keffi. Front and center. The woman who walks around in the video is dressed in yoga pants, which I find weird for a journalist. She's about to go out of the gym and and you're literally in a house that's like a conviction room.

You're not supposed to be tempered with the evidence. You're not supposed to enter in spaces like that while the investigation continues. No gloves, no mask. No gloves, no mask, nothing. Literally in running shoes and yoga pants. And I did a little research on the web that reveals that the worker between 2015 and 2017

for a Zionist organization called Kamera, so Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting. It's a pro-Israel organization that will do media surveillance to ensure that the interests of Israel are well represented in the media. An organization that saw the light, I think it was about 20 years ago when Israel made an invasion of Lebanon and wanted to make sure to really control the media discovery. I'm not going an organization that saw the light, I think it was about 20 years ago, when Israel invaded Lebanon and wanted to make sure to really control the media discovery. I'm not going to say anything except one thing, the journalist has a share in a notorious terrorist entity that is Israel. No matter the motivations of this man, killer, murderer, he still has a media frame

that will push towards an association. I was going to say, for example, I have... In fact, the term is a recovery. Yes, there is a media recovery of the matter to push certain narratives, discourses, agendas. For example, just in the article, the video's cipel, I put everything in yellow the words that could be used to refer to Islam and terrorism. So we have ISIS, terrorist, Quran, ISIS, Quran, Allah, Quran, Allah, Quran, martyrdom, Muslim, Allah, Islam, prayer rug, believer, ISIS, ISIS, jihadist, group, Afghanistan, Quran, religion, Muslim, area, kefi.

How many words did you say? Not even a few words. Read them, read them. So next time, DG News! You wanted to come back to the press article? Ok, as I said in the previous episode, I have an article that came out in the press this Sunday, which is called 5 social trends to watch in 2025

or something like that. And I'm talking about Ideologies, which is a neologism of the author Joshua Starrela that we already talked about in Café Snake. It refers to complex political identities that young people adopt online, because he's really doing research on young people who are going to radicalize, who are going to adopt political identities, for example on Instagram. I was saying that what needs to be remembered is that the binary spectrum of the left and the right

was now struggling to fully circumscribe the ideological profiles that were... That's what we've been saying, just saying... More and more, etheric. And then after that, no, but it's interesting because there's a debate among journalists who cover web culture in relation to that, where there are many who adhere to that vision.

And there's another one, for example, that I follow, called Catherine D, who says, well no, well no, it's not really something we should be careful about, because it's just teenagers and identities. It's a bit like adopting an aesthetic, adopting a policy. It's not because that's what you shouldn't take into account, even if that's what it is. Yeah, exactly. And the other thing I wanted to add is that in my article, I also say that we should note that the massive deployment in the last two years of certain technologies, such as generative artificial intelligence, is also in concert with the imperative to finance the development of these technologies, has contributed to disseminate on the web or in the mass culture ideologies that were relatively marginal or niche,

such as long-termism, like extro-pianism, like singularitarianism. Accelerationism. Accelerationism, effective altruism, etc. etc. And I think that's really something important to remember, because technology is starting to be central in the political discourse, especially because the giants of tech have more and more political power. We saw it with the Trump election recently. And you have to think that technology,

how it is designed, thought and deployed, is always an ideology. So there are several ideologies that come into play and that will really influence politics and all kinds of things. And it's not ideologies that can necessarily be attributed easily like that to a left-wing or a right-wing. And that's important. For example, Elon Musk.

We're talking about Elon Musk, a well-known American dude, Walter Isaacson, who says, Elon Musk isn't motivated by money or power. In fact, he's motivated by the fact that he cares so deeply about humanity. So, humanity is at the heart of everything. That's why he works so hard. You have to think that humanity is at the heart, that's why they work so hard. You have to think that this is precisely an ideology. It's your way of seeing what would be best for humanity.

And that varies, what is best for humanity. It varies depending on what your ideology is. An ideology refers to a system of ideas proposed to men to guide them, to give meaning to their lives in the situation, in an order and in a future that transcends them. This way of thinking of it as the best for humanity is important. We discuss this in the media, for example. We start thinking about what are these tech maniacs who have a lot of money and more and more political power.

What is their ideology to them? So here ends the free part of today's episode. To listen to the rest of our conversation, go to Patreon.com, bar oblique, café-ciné. You will be able to access all our episodes like that every week. See you next week! Bye!