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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

Democracy

Political sentences about democracy, as an ideal or as a regime: elections, institutions, representation.

Reliability of the classifier 0.88F1 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.

1,937
political sentences on the theme: 196
sentences read

The theme in a typical video

Far right 7.3% 74 videos
Left 8.3% 37 videos
Manosphere 2.3% 9 videos
Conspiracism 4.1% 2 videos
Culture 3.0% 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

Far right 38% 740 sentences
Left 59% 1,138 sentences
Manosphere 2% 36 sentences
Conspiracism 1% 22 sentences
Culture <1% 1 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.

« Alors ça s'explique pour plusieurs raisons, et je voudrais vous en citer au moins deux. La première d'entre elles, je l'ai dit, c'est le système en lui-même qui corsette les politiciens et les canalise pour qu'ils fassent toujours les mêmes bêtises. »
« Voilà celui que nous sommes censés élire demain, un majordome du grand capital. Un grand serviteur, certes, mais un serviteur quand même. »
« Alors Netanyahou est vraiment en train de nier pas seulement qu'il ait reçu des ammunitions, mais aussi de faire tout le... mettre tous les poids sur l'armée et les services secrets qui sont responsables de cette catastrophe. »
« Ou bien ce sont des gens qui sont très haut placés et qui s'amusent à dire à la population « C'est trop compliqué pour vous de réussir. Le système ne veut pas que vous réussissiez. »
« Les 40 dernières années en France sont assez aberrantes, parce qu'on a eu d'une part une démission sur le plan socio-économique et politique. des partis de gouvernement et ils nous ont enfermés dans un débat socioculturel, »
« Les seuls débats, et c'est pour ça que j'étais assez ennuyé, je trouvais ça d'un ennui assez important, assez gros, tous les débats des chefs. On dirait que la seule ambition qui anime ceux qui se présentent pour gouverner l'État québécois, c'est une ambition managériale. »

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.

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.

2.2k 2009–2017* 1.6k 2018* 1.7k 2019* 2.8k 2020* 9.7k 2021* 24.4k 2022* 21.3k 2023 37.7k 2024* 25.5k 2025* 12.3k 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