CNN Passes 10 Billion Views On YouTube

     CNN's YouTube channel, which has 13 million subscribers (nearly double the number of subscribers Faux News has), just hit another milestone well before FOX did: 10 billion views on YouTube. FOX likes to spend their days making pathetic little videos with AK-slinging "gurus" about how "woke culture" and "cancel culture" are killing the United States while stoking the flames of racial division, misinformation, and disinformation, but it doesn't appear to be working.

     What's especially worth noting is their progress since they began actively posting on YouTube nearly 13 years ago. Their first videos only got a few hundred views and had a 49-51 split of likes to dislikes. Even their first video, an interview with General David Petraeus, was only viewed 7,000 times. This is abnormal because the first video on a YouTube channel is usually well-viewed thanks to curious people sorting the videos as such years later. Nowadays, a video getting 100,000 views in a week is a slow news bit, and their most popular video has nearly 75 million views. The average video gets about 80 percent likes.

     Let's get one thing clear: I'm not batting for CNN. However, I hate FOX enough to realize that a thorn in their side turning into a pike would be good news for society. CNN, while incredibly biased, is not just blatantly false like FOX is: they claimed that the election was stolen until a lawsuit forced them not to, and their failure to identify a flaw in President Biden's agenda led them to resort to falsely claiming he wanted to ban burgers and was responsible for a sauce shortage at Chick-Fil-A (to be fair, their idea of a bad president is a man who rides a Peloton and wears a Rolex). 

     FOX is also simply dangerous: guests on Tucker Carlson's show regularly referred to Iraqi people as "monkeys," Carlson's writer was fired for running a white supremacist server, Bill O'Reilly went down for sexual assault, their idea of political commentary is wondering if Nancy Pelosi would admit to plastic surgery while being waterboarded, and their "Foxitis" inspired the 2018 Florida Mail Bombings and 2021 Capitol Insurrection.

     The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and I will continue to rejoice in every success CNN and MSNBC has because it means FOX sleeps a little less that night.