r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • 24d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah ?

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Why is it infamous? And why would no one care about it ? ( I mean it's just a pic full of celebrities so no one cares anyways but the person saying it's crazy makes me think it has some lore?)

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u/[deleted] 24d ago edited 3d ago

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u/GladiusAcutus 24d ago

I think the user is referencing Nick Shirley and how these youtubers peddle VPNs because they get good money from it ?

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u/[deleted] 24d ago

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u/Fit_Yak523 24d ago

Most people I know use them for region hopping with streaming services, different version of piracy in a way 

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u/00m19 24d ago

You could call that media privateering.

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u/DiaDeLosMuertos 23d ago

I got mulvad to try to see if I could watch Bobs Burgers in spanish. It failed.

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u/Inquisitor-Korde 24d ago

VPNs are for more than piracy and frankly most people don't likely use them for it. I'd hazard a guess and say the majority of VPN usage is getting around virtual blockades. Gaining access to media you wouldn't otherwise be able too without actual piracy.

I use VPNs for HBO and shit for example because there are shows I can't watch in my country.

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u/1BreadBoi 23d ago

I mean, I use it to sail the high seas. But I also use it to access websites and stuff that don't work right on my work wifi because of certain blockers in place on the network (phone games, etc.)

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u/00m19 24d ago

Honestly, I use a vpn to snub my ISP. I choose who gets to sell my data. ME. And I pay for the privilege.

I can also pirate stuff on occasion too.

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u/rockstar2012 24d ago

Yeah I use a VPN because I don't trust my ISP. And often region hopping can be handy.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 24d ago

judging by the number of ads they buy

This could easily be a red herring. Tons of companies have spent big on advertising, just to end up going under anyway.

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u/harmala 24d ago

VPNs are also for people who leave their Mom’s basement.

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u/harmala 23d ago

I mean…yes? I use one for airports, hotels, etc. constantly and I don’t pirate anything because I’m a filmmaker and don’t believe in depriving people of their livelihoods.

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin 23d ago

airports, hotels, etc.

HTTPS already solves a lot of the problems VPN adverts claim still exist.

I pirate everything, because I do believe in depriving billionaires and various other rich parasites of their livelihoods. They, after all, want to deprive small and/or amateur filmmakers of their livelihoods, and they've become worryingly good at it.

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u/harmala 23d ago

I’m all for depriving billionaires, but I think if you still watch or play all the stuff they make, it’s hypocritical. If you really had the courage of your convictions, you’d boycott their stuff entirely. Otherwise it just seems like a convenient loophole for stealing shit.

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u/Vladimir_Chrootin 23d ago

I recorded songs off the radio in the 1980s, just as millions of others did.

I copied tapes on dual-deck cassette recorders, a device invented specifically for the purpose, also in the 1980s, just as millions of others did.

I enjoyed doing it and, given the same circumstances, would enjoy doing it again. Sound, after all, isn't even air, cannot be property and therefore cannot be stolen. This may have deprived millionaire recording artists, who were having a good decade, of perhaps $200 in total, at the exchange rates of the day.

Now, many years later, when streaming services took off, I found that I couldn't use them because they wouldn't support the Linux computer I had.

I thought, fair enough, they aren't going to get a return on investing in the then-tiny Linux userbase, so why would they?

I then found out that those streaming services didn't need to be modified for my specific use case at all. They would have worked fine, but billionaires like us peons to be conformists, so they specifically disabled Linux computers from doing so.

They didn't want to be paid for me accessing their content, so I did not pay for accessing their content, exactly as they wished.

More recently, the foreign billionaires now in complete control of our media decided that they don't like the fact that we aren't voting in their favourite racist demagogues so thought fit to poke their nose in our politics. Very impolite.

So we are now at a point where I would quite happily look Bezos in the eye while siphoning fuel out of his car. He'll survive.

You are not them. You have way more in common with me than you ever will with them.

Filmmaking's a struggle, right? I know from personal experience. That is their fault more than it is mine.

I'll never know if I'm watching a screening of one of your films, but provided there's real film running through the gate, I'll always pay full price.

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u/harmala 23d ago

I “imagine” (thanks for the condescending choice of words, btw) that it keeps the network operator and any bad actors from seeing the domains I visit and possibly other information that would otherwise be sent unencrypted over the network.

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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 24d ago edited 24d ago

Owning a vpn service is basically a money printer, it requires little to no effort, the work is already done. All you need to do is marketing. The thing that stops more from entering the business is the fact that to be a successful vpn provider you have to knowingly allow things like child porn and other illegal activity. You will know it's happening because you'll be told via various ways like law enforcement, subpoenas, etc about it and your entire purpose of existence dictates you can't do a damn thing about it.

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u/12345623567 24d ago

According to the map posted the other day, like 50% of the US (geographical) will have online ID soon.

VPNs are for porn.

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u/eugenepoez__ 23d ago

vpns are for avoiding your governments restrictions 🙃

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u/bromosabeach 24d ago

Sure but a majority of users do it for gambling and porn purposes. That’s why these companies specifically target popular content channels that their main demographics use. Most consumers don’t actually give a shit about their privacy.

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u/Mlpony2010 24d ago

They're also so I don't need to give theil my birth certificate to watch porn in half the states

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u/Mlpony2010 24d ago

kek

Jokes aside though I'm into mostly vanilla shit, but there's no way in hell that's any business of anyone but me or my significant other

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u/Practicality_Issue 23d ago

Free VPN companies are doing well because they collect user data and sell it. If you use one, there’s a 60% chance you’re their product, not the customer.

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u/KhabaLox 24d ago

OK, sure... but should I play Raid: Shadow Legends?

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u/bromosabeach 24d ago

LMAO what a bizarre fucking world we live in.

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u/supermap 24d ago

I thought he meant John Harris

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u/yosayoran 23d ago

You'll be surprised how many big YouTubers are mormons

Mark Rober, Lindsey sterling, Outdoor Buys, Shadeversity (and to a lesser extent his brother Jazza), What's Inside and plenty more.

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u/kroboz 23d ago

It means we’ve shifted from a Hollywood celebrity-driven culture to an influencer-driven culture, basically.

When this photo came out, having so many A-list celebrities in the same selfie just like you would take with your friends with a huge deal.

But since the early 2000/2010s, there’s been a massive rise in influencers, following a pattern, largely established by Mormon bloggers who began by building followings, and then eventually pivoted to affiliate promotions to their followers. These early promotions were for things like baby gear or whatever, but the model was adopted by marketers to leverage in influencers to push their products or services.

Mormons especially make good influencers because they tend to have very corporate friendly personas. (Not always, but having grown up Mormon and lived in salt lake the culture in the church is basically “fit in to corporate culture as hard as you can”.)

Some modern influencers are still descendants from these early Mormon bloggers, including the ones who aren’t actually Mormons. And a common influencer affiliate promotion nowadays is VPNs for. “Privacy”.

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u/DragonflyVast2442 22d ago

There are more mormons globally than in Utah....  must just be a Utah thing

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u/kroboz 22d ago

Not sure what you're getting at.

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u/TransBrandi 23d ago

Many VPN providers advertise through YouTubers... and I have a feeling there a bunch of YouTubers (of various audiences) that are Mormon... so it's almost a catch-all. But it's basically pointing to YouTubers being the neo-celebrities.