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Themes and arguments.

The arguments put forward or contested in the videos, grouped by theme and by period. Our local model draws them from a sample of political sentences, then they are checked against the sentences; each quote links back to its video.

The theme

Distrust of the state

Political sentences expressing libertarian ideas or distrust of the state, public services, taxation or norms.

Reliability of the classifier 0.90F1 0.65checked precision The method
Period

The last seven days are read again every day. * provisional, part of the period’s videos are still to be transcribed. Greyed out, reading pending.

877
political sentences on the theme
179
sentences read
Gemma 4 31B
read on 6 October 2026 at 04:12
The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 5.2% 72 videos
  2. Left 2.3% 33 videos
  3. Manosphere 7.9% 11 videos
  4. Conspiracism 3.1% 1 videos
  5. Culture 3.0% 2 videos

Mean share, per video, of the political sentences on the theme; each video counts once, from 20 political sentences.

Where the theme’s sentences come from
  1. Far right 71% 623 sentences
  2. Left 21% 182 sentences
  3. Manosphere 7% 60 sentences
  4. Conspiracism 1% 9 sentences
  5. Libertarianism <1% 1 sentences
  6. Culture <1% 2 sentences

This split follows the size of each orientation’s corpus. It describes the channel selection, not the weight each side gives the theme.

Arguments come from a sample shared by the territories. Only excerpts from channels in the selected country and their associated arguments are kept here; counts are recalculated.

The arguments

What is put forward, and by whom.

Each card opens on all its sentences; each quote links back to its video.

  1. Carried by Far right 11Left 1Manosphere 1
    Contested by Far right 3Left 1

    « Voilà. Donc maintenant, c'est soit que nous sommes en sécurité, donc l'agent des deux impôts sert à quelque chose, et si ça ne peut pas servir à quelque chose dans ce cas-là, on ne paye pas, on attend quand ils vont faire quelque chose. »

    « extorsion de fonds, appelés impôts révolutionnaires, imposés à des entrepreneurs et des chefs d'entreprise, sous menace de violence, »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  2. Carried by Far right 5Left 4Manosphere 1

    « Ce que fait l'État vis-à-vis du peuple français, le laisser dans ses conditions, bosser. comme des chiens dans des services publics saturés et puis en plus vivre tout ça à côté c'est horrible franchement moi je... ça me... »

    « Et l'État ne réagit pas, ou très peu. Je n'ai pas vu l'État vraiment réagir. »

    « Toujours. Si un État ne parvient pas à vaincre la criminalité, c'est parce que l'État est complice ou parce que certaines parties de l'État le sont. »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  3. Carried by Far right 2Left 1

    « Moins de bureaucratie contre plus de policiers et moins de procédures contre plus de places en prison. On arrive. »

    « O principal desafio político do Brasil em 2026 vai ser ter um olhar para o futuro e que realmente reduza os índices de criminalidade e de violência em todo o Brasil. Nós temos que ter um programa econômico que dê estabilidade e segurança jurídica, com redução de impostos, […] »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

  4. Carried by Far right 3Left 3Manosphere 2

    « Sinon, on nous fait des menaces de justice, on nous démonétise. Et en plus, on augmente nos assurances. »

    « Est-ce qu'on veut une société de surveillance façon dictature chinoise ou russe ? Ou est-ce qu'on veut garder notre liberté d'expression et notre qualité de vie ? »

    « Et pour ça, il faut que les Gaulois se libèrent de la prison mentale universaliste que l'Etat l'aura injecté dans le sang, après l'avoir si abondamment fait couler pour des ambitions qui, à la base, ne le concernaient pas tant que ça. Ce patriotisme gaulois ne serait pas […] »

    The argument, its videos and all its sentences

The videos

Where the theme weighs most.

Videos of the last four months, ranked by the share of their political sentences the classifier assigns to the theme; each record opens in a side panel.

  1. Même l’Allaitement serait un Complot du Patriarcat ? Sana Nova · 17 September 2026
  2. INCENDIES EN GIRONDE : L'HISTOIRE DE CEUX QUI SONT RESTÉS Vincent Lapierre · 5 August 2026
  3. Debate on the decline of chivalry and the evolution of male-female relationships The Blind Spot · 2 October 2026 · record
  4. ELON MUSK EST DEVENU TRILLIONNAIRE... LES FRANÇAIS RÉAGISSENT - EL RAYHAN El Rayhan · 21 June 2026
  5. Analysis of a video on the value of degrees and the impact of artificial intelligence Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS · 5 October 2026 · record
  6. YouTuber Psyhodelik takes a twelve-axis political orientation test Psyhodelik · 1 October 2026 · record
  7. CE WESH GRABATAIRE VEUT METTRE PIGASSE DANS UN CAMP Kroc Blanc - FDENEWS · 26 September 2026
  8. BRÉSIL : FLÁVIO BOLSONARO DEVANCE LULA : L’INTERVIEW OMERTA · 5 October 2026
  9. Interview with Sardoche on liberalism and the French media landscape Frontières · 27 September 2026 · record
  10. Luigi Mangione : Le criminel qui divise internet Naj B Fit · 31 August 2026

The percentage is the share of the video’s political sentences assigned to the theme (at least 20 political sentences and 5 on the theme).

The periods

The theme, year by year.

Political sentences on the theme by period; click a period to show it. The number also depends on the share of videos transcribed, which varies a lot from year to year.

How the arguments are drawn

The theme’s political sentences are drawn at random by period, with quotas per orientation and a cap per channel and per video. Our local model reads the sentences without knowing their channel or orientation, groups those making the same argument, separates those reporting it in order to contest it and sets aside those off the theme. Orientation shares and quotes come from the sentences, never from the model. The last seven days are read again every day.

The detail in the method
Project paper