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Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown)
October 2024
Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Drug Alcohol Rev
October 2024
School of Health and Social Development, Faculty of Health, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
Introduction: YouTube personalities (YP) have amassed significant followings by distributing health information. There is concern that YP involved in anabolic androgenic steroid (AAS) communities are sharing information on how people should approach initiating AAS use. This research sought to explore how YP are using their platform to distribute information on AAS initiation, what information is being presented and how people are responding.
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October 2024
Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan.
Surgery
February 2025
Department of Anaesthesiology, Zhongshan City People's Hospital, Guangdong, China. Electronic address:
This paper examines how conspiracy theories anchor affective communities through an analysis of the YouTube comment section for the actor and comedian turned political influencer Russell Brand. Comparing videos before and after Brand's shift to covid scepticism, I explore like counts, reply networks, and other commenting patterns in a dataset of 217,157 comments and conduct an in-depth analysis of 2000 top comments. The findings show first, a shift toward right-wing viewpoints; second, a reduction in comment length and comment replies alongside an increase in likes; third, a sharp rise in proclamations of Brand fandom; and fourth, a steep increase in references to conspiracy.
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