Observatory

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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.

1,244
political sentences on the theme · videos mostly from September to October 2026
240
sentences read, two draws
Waiting for our local model

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

The sample is ready: 240 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 6.0% 79 videos
  2. Conservative right 42.7% 1 videos
  3. Left 2.4% 37 videos
  4. Manosphere 10.1% 10 videos
  5. Conspiracism 10.3% 5 videos
  6. Culture 6.6% 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 65% 811 sentences
  2. Conservative right 3% 33 sentences
  3. Left 20% 245 sentences
  4. Manosphere 6% 70 sentences
  5. Conspiracism 6% 77 sentences
  6. Libertarianism <1% 1 sentences
  7. Culture 1% 7 sentences

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

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. « Élections au Québec, le Parti québécois. Parti québécois élu majoritaire, est-ce qu'on s'en va vers l'indépendance du Québec? »

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

  3. « Que ce soit l'Alberta, le Québec, la Saskatchewan, je serais pour une véritable confédération dans laquelle chaque province a les pleins pouvoirs. et partage certains pouvoirs concernant peut-être la défense, »

  4. « Parce que là, en ce moment, ce qu'on voit, ce n'est pas tant de la neutralité de l'État, ce n'est pas tant de la séparation des pouvoirs, c'est vraiment un athéisme d'État. Les gens qui sont vraiment favorisés par ça, c'est les athées. »

  5. « It proposes abolishing the Senate and replacing the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. It also describes the abolition of the police and prison system as a goal. »

  6. « Le camp massif médiatique de l'État, la vision de l'État, de la politique du gouvernement était... »

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. I Read Marx So You Don't Have To Ben Shapiro · 3 October 2026
  3. INCENDIES EN GIRONDE : L'HISTOIRE DE CEUX QUI SONT RESTÉS Vincent Lapierre · 5 August 2026
  4. Ce soir Bill Gates et L’I.A. 09 septembre 2026. Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 10 September 2026
  5. Debate on the decline of chivalry and the evolution of male-female relationships The Blind Spot · 2 October 2026 · record
  6. ELON MUSK EST DEVENU TRILLIONNAIRE... LES FRANÇAIS RÉAGISSENT - EL RAYHAN El Rayhan · 21 June 2026
  7. YouTuber Psyhodelik takes a twelve-axis political orientation test Psyhodelik · 1 October 2026 · record
  8. Denunciation of legal proceedings initiated by Élections Québec Président De L'Association De L’Union-Nationale · 30 September 2026 · record
  9. Presentation of the Conservative Party of Quebec's justice and security plan Actualité Politique Du Québec · 29 September 2026 · record
  10. Presentation of Québec solidaire's proposals for families and the economy Actualité Politique Du Québec · 2 October 2026 · record

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.

1.7k 2009–2017* 845 2018 1.3k 2019 1.8k 2020 6.7k 2021 9.1k 2022 14k 2023 20.7k 2024 14.4k 2025* 4.8k 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