youtube shorts are basically dumbass comment bait. like yt very obviously applies absolutely no logic to how they spread these so my imac video is being put in front of hundreds of thousands of people who have never heard the word "retrocomputing" before and they're understandably confused about it. i have received half a million views on this video and i think almost none of them were from people who wanted to see it. this does not make any of their comments less stupid of course it's just an observation
also it's constantly amazing to me how many people don't understand what thrift stores are. a third of the comments on this are "OMG THEY GOT THAT FOR FREE AND THEY'RE CHARGING THAT MUCH FOR IT???" like buddy what do you think they should charge? do you think the purpose of the store is to give stuff to poor people at low prices? that was literally never the intent. like yeah goodwill apparently is a terrible charity that's mismanaged at best and fraudulent at worst but even if they were functioning ideally, their goal is to make as much profit off of resold donations as possible in order to pay for other projects. the reason you're donating or buying stuff is to indirectly support a charity! there are signs all over the store that say this! their retail demographic is the lower middle class! it always was!
this is why i get so confused about people who get mad about reselling stuff from thrift stores.
