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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
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.

769
political sentences on the theme
176
sentences read
Waiting for our local model

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

The sample is ready: 176 sentences drawn by orientation, channel and video. The reading takes place during the project’s computing slots; next slot today at 06:30. Meanwhile, the theme’s clearest sentences are shown below.

The theme in a typical video
  1. Far right 4.4% 61 videos
  2. Left 2.4% 32 videos
  3. Manosphere 10.0% 8 videos
  4. Conspiracism 3.1% 1 videos
  5. Culture 6.1% 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 63% 485 sentences
  2. Left 27% 209 sentences
  3. Manosphere 8% 63 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.

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. « Et pour ce faire, cet État-nation, cet État créant la nation, cet État-nation en germe en tout cas, aurait eu à lutter contre de nombreux traîtres qui apparaîtront. »

  2. « Voilà, un État qui est complètement dépassé. Donc ça, pareil, c'est intégré. »

  3. « parce qu'eux, ils croient quand même vachement à l'État, à l'ordre et tout. Mais comme toujours, c'est paradoxal, »

  4. « Chaque peuple conserverait son autodétermination avec une ouverture progressive de la circulation et de la résidence. Et évidemment, pour que ça fonctionne, ça nécessite un investissement majeur des pétromonarchies. »

  5. « Je crois que c'est encore pire. En fait, t'es souverainiste, en fait. »

  6. « Non, quand je voulais dire le conserver, c'est conserver ses tendances progressistes. C'est pas faire genre, pas balancer les progressistes avec l'eau du bain de l'État, quoi, tu vois. »

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. YouTuber Psyhodelik takes a twelve-axis political orientation test Psyhodelik · 1 October 2026 · record
  6. Interview with Sardoche on liberalism and the French media landscape Frontières · 27 September 2026 · record
  7. Luigi Mangione : Le criminel qui divise internet Naj B Fit · 31 August 2026
  8. LE MEDEF VEUT VOUS TU€R (c'est pas une blague) PaduTeam · 29 September 2026
  9. Andrew Tate : La chute la plus satisfaisante de l'histoire d'Internet Naj B Fit · 14 August 2026
  10. Comment l’Union européenne détruit la France - Gilles Raveaud & Jacques Sapir Front Populaire · 19 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.

971 2009–2017* 550 2018* 993 2019* 1.7k 2020* 5.1k 2021* 7.4k 2022* 8.8k 2023 10.8k 2024* 8.1k 2025* 3.6k 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