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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

Equality and inequality

Political sentences about equality or inequality between human beings: sexes, origins, social groups.

Reliability of the classifier 0.89F1 0.85checked 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.

63
political sentences on the theme: 22
sentences read

The theme in a typical video

Far right 1.2% 16 videos
Manosphere 66.7% 1 videos
Conspiracism 0.7% 3 videos
Culture 2.8% 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 51% 32 sentences
Manosphere 37% 23 sentences
Conspiracism 8% 5 sentences
Culture 5% 3 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.

« des problèmes démographiques sérieux, avec une disproportion. Non, ils n'ont pas institué seulement une politique homme ou enfant mâle seulement, mais c'est dans les mœurs chinoises que si on allait être forcé à avoir seulement un enfant, mais là on va avorter toutes les filles […] »
« J'en ai marre de me plier à toutes les exigences que m'impose le fait d'être une femme. J'en ai marre d'avoir cru toutes ces années ce message qui dit que les femmes, au-delà de 30 ans, sont périnées et que les hommes vieillissent comme un bon vin. »
« moi je vais le laisser faire le merci, il fait la promotion de Trump, avec ses tarifs contre l'acier, le monde ne comprenne pas, les gens s'attachent, c'est leur système limbique, l'attachement, le groupe, le sauveur, mais tu regardes le sauveur ce qu'il fait, »
« Qui ont voté pour des politiques comme ça. Les féministes gauchistes n'interviendront sur le peuple pour défendre les vraies femmes. »

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.

26 2009–2017 18 2018 23 2019 3 2020 1.2k 2021 336 2022 569 2023 959 2024 831 2025* 235 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