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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

Environment

Political sentences about the environment or ecology: climate, energy, nature, green parties.

Reliability of the classifier 0.96F1 0.90checked precision The method
Period
Last 7 days Last 3 months* 2026* 2025* 2024* 2023 2022* 2021* 2020* 2019* 2018* 2009–2017*

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.

922
political sentences on the theme
165
sentences read
Waiting for our local model

Content in preparation: it will appear here as soon as it is ready.

The sample is ready: 165 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot tonight at 00:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 4.4% 64 videos
  2. Left 6.6% 37 videos
  3. Manosphere 1.8% 8 videos
  4. Conspiracism 3.3% 2 videos
  5. Culture 36.4% 1 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 38% 350 sentences
  2. Left 56% 519 sentences
  3. Manosphere 3% 24 sentences
  4. Conspiracism 2% 15 sentences
  5. Libertarianism <1% 1 sentences
  6. Culture 1% 13 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.

While the reading is pending

What the videos say, sentence by sentence.

The sentences the classifier ties most clearly to the theme, taken from different orientations and channels; each one comes out of its video, which opens in a side panel.

  1. « Une manière de dire la planète, oui, mais pas trop. Les mesures pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique, oui, tant que ça ne dérange pas les patrons. »

  2. « Mais sans insister sur le fait que la Chine, elle aussi, est un petit peu responsable des mauvais comportements sur l'écologie. Et la Chine n'en a rien à péter. »

  3. « les hydrocarbures, etc., qu'on n'exploite quasiment pas à cause des écologistes qui ont mis des interdits là-dessus. »

  4. « Je ne comprends pas ce qu'il dit. Ah, il casse les voitures des citoyens basiques aussi. »

  5. « Alors que sur YouTube, il n'y avait pas un guide du genre « Tu fais une vidéo sur l'hydroxyde le rocine, ta vidéo elle saute. » Comme ce qui m'est arrivé quand j'ai fait 20 mensonges sur Didier Raoult. »

  6. « qui sont les derniers à ne pas avoir de complémentaire santé, et la poursuite des investissements, notamment d'adaptation des établissements de santé au changement climatique. La deuxième priorité, c'est l'accès aux soins. »

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. Interview with the editors of Terrestres magazine on radical ecology Mediapart · 4 October 2026 · record
  2. Analysis of the debt crisis and energy challenges in France Front Populaire · 1 October 2026 · record
  3. Analysis of the Health and Social Impacts of the Pesticide Industry Paroles D'Honneur · 1 October 2026 · record
  4. Debate on environmental causes of cancer and the influence of pesticides Mediapart · 1 October 2026 · record
  5. Le catéchisme écolo lourdingue d'Hollywood… DIGGER | Critique (avec et sans spoil) Plot Time · 30 September 2026
  6. Street interview on left-wing Christianity and ecology Cathédrale Osseuse · 3 October 2026 · record
  7. Analysis of the Diesel Price Crisis and the Russian Threat in France Le Fil d'Actu - Officiel · 30 September 2026 · record
  8. Avatar 3, la représentation des humains LE LAPIN DU CULTURE · 16 August 2026
  9. ELON MUSK EST DEVENU TRILLIONNAIRE... LES FRANÇAIS RÉAGISSENT - EL RAYHAN El Rayhan · 21 June 2026
  10. CE PHILOSOPHE MÉDIATIQUE ET INCOMPÉTENT SE FAIT ÉCLATAX PAR CHAT GPT ! (Il a rien compris.) Le Hussard · 4 October 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.

1.2k 2009–2017* 656 2018* 973 2019* 1.7k 2020* 7.2k 2021* 15k 2022* 13.9k 2023 12.6k 2024* 8.5k 2025* 3.7k 2026*
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