The decline was very sudden, almost instantaneous, and can be traced back to the exact date a block list, used by most major desktop ad blockers, added the YouTube View Counter API endpoint to their list.
It wasn’t that. It was the offhand comment before that, saying the Right is desperately trying to make the killer out to be not “one of them”.
Basically he was dispelling the narrative the admin is trying to push, to a national audience. The admin can’t have dissidents out there with a microphone and reach…
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