Yeah, no. American Oligarchs did social media. Youtube, Twitter, facebook, instagram all American. First they did it for money now they are doing it openly for power. Cambridge Analytica, anti-vax, anti-trans, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant all of these are made by Americans to poison the world. And they are going to do much worse with AI. Americans destroyed the world.
All of these right-wing grifters are susceptible to Zeitgeist shifts as they are paid for the reach of their propaganda so when it became untenable to defend Israel even to a right-wing audience Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Charlie Kirk pivoted. Ben Shapiro didn't and lost his audience.
Haruna itself is a frontend for mpv and mpv can probably do what you need and more. Check out the archwiki and if something you want isn't on there someone else on the internet probably has made a script for it or something.
While I do appreciate its existence, I've never been a fan of VLC. Back on Windows I used to use MPC-HC, mpv is always better on linux and even when I tried to use VLC on my google tv device yesterday to stream some episodes over NFS it kept stuttering so I had to install Kodi which worked perfectly.
There always seem to be better apps to do what I need.
Always been a big pisser