Conservative YouTubers want to be persecuted

From “shadowbanning” to YouTube “blacklists,” the right has delusions of social media martyrdom

Steven Crowder at the 2013 CPAC saying something incredibly smart and well thought out. (Gage Skidmore / Flickr / CC-BY-SA)

Conservatives are being blacklisted by YouTube—or at least according to Steven Crowder.

His evidence? He claims that if you search for rightwing YouTuber Lauren Chen (known previously as “Roaming Millennial”), videos from her channel don’t show up on the first page.

If you click on the link Crowder provides, the top hits are all Chen’s videos (as you can see from the screenshot), but none are hosted directly on Chen’s channel, which is “blacklisting,” I guess?

But, if you go to Youtube yourself, and just search for her name, you see this:

The address Crowder gives:

…/results?search_query=Lauren+Chen&sp=EgIQAQ%253D%253D