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Those '5-Minute Crafts' videos prioritise shareability over practicality/veracity, and have been carefully crafted to chase/exploit the YouTube and Facebook algorithms '5-Minute Crafts' is just one channel out of dozens under the same umbrella - TheSoul Media, a huge and hugely lucrative Russian content farm based in Cyprus and Russia.
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The actual truth is that 5 Minutes Crafts finances the Russian troll factory. It is part of TheSoul Publishing, third largest social content creator on the planet. They push out Kremlin revisionist history and for ex leaked a video few years ago that predicts war with EU.
I wouldn't be surprised if some of those 'adults' are paid bots. It's been well established that 5 minute crafts and most of their copycats are from content mills. Reusing bad, low effort footage and paying people to write cheap, poorly written scripts makes a ton, and any video that doesn't do well gets an algorithm boost from bots.
Bro these 5 min crafts need to stop! I feel like this was made more to watch her make the chair and hold plaster cheeks rather than how to repair a “it rubs lotion on the skin” style chair. Reply reply
Great, 5 minute crafts in sucking world wide now. Reply More posts you may like. r/kallmekris ...
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So I go in for my school photo one year, do my regular smile, and this damn photographer spends a good 3 minute going "come on, give us some teeth!" while I'm sitting there grinning like an idiot. I finally lose my patience and say "Just take the damn picture!"
156 votes, 27 comments. true. I have no paying job and yet these idiots are making videos where not only is is virtually impossible to do the craft in only five minutes, but the crafts are worthless.
To be grudgingly fair to "Five Minute Crafts" , their political content amounts to about two videos and a couple of minor ad buys. They seem to have stayed out of that field after people noticed. They might have considered going propaganda mill, but they didn't commit. (They could be funding someone else though, but that is simply me speculating).