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May 28

Vaccine videos receiving dislikes

I am noticing a trend with COVID-19 vaccine videos on YouTube. They all have a rather high proportion of dislikes. The vaccine is meant to be a good thing, so why are they receiving dislikes? -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 01:57, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe they don't like seeing needles being pushed into arms? I avert my eyes whenever these things show up on the nightly news - which is like every night. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 02:56, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've searched up other needle-related videos and they've all had positive ratings. I don't think it has to do with needles. -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 04:07, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Then it's probably political. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 06:18, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Blame the culture of conspiracism and cynicism for that, considering how the anti-vaccination movement has made great strides towards pushing their own agenda. /s Blake Gripling (talk) 06:46, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Anti vax nutters. Fgf10 (talk) 09:51, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Do not forget the specific COVID-19 conspiracy theory about nano-RFID chips in the vaccines. --Lambiam 11:11, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah I've been told of that over at Facebook by someone who bought into the Satanic panic canard about them vaccines lately. Blake Gripling (talk) 12:59, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Really, I hope this won't happen again. -_-|| -³²²UbnBr₂ (Talk | Contributions | Actions) 01:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

They're also usually categorized into one section on the YouTube home page, so it's pretty easy for someone to click through and dislike all of them DrawWikiped^(talk) 23:27, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just vaccine videos. Biden in mainstream media, pandemic news, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if Putin or Q-Anon are hard at work. Imagine Reason (talk) 00:37, 2 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook fails

So I use Adblock Plus, which is brilliant most of the time. Then maybe nine months ago on my Facebook feed I started to see adverts and daft videos of animals, big trucks, and people's various stupid antics. These actually outnumbered posts from my friends. I got so tired of these I contemplated leaving Facebook, which I don't use much anyway. I tagged most of them as unwanted, but stiil kept seeing similar rubbish. Then suddenly about two weeks ago they all stopped and once again all I see is posts from my friends. Did something change with Facebook, or with Adblock Plus? Have others found this? Just curious.--Shantavira|^{feed me} 10:49, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't use Facebook and so have no idea what happened (probably obscure changes to algorithmic sorting, if I had to guess), but two immediate suggestions for what you could do come to my mind:

You could try only watching a chronological feed (tricks for doing so are here, here, and here). Hopefully ads and daft videos are rarer near the top when posts are in chronological order.
You could just stop using Facebook; I fare perfectly well without it, and since you don't use it much anyways I don't think you'd miss it very much as well.

Duckmather (talk) 00:43, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

iPhone 5S screen problem

The screen of my iPhone 5S is starting to split from the metal. The bottom edge is fine, but the glass has deviated a few millimeters from the metal on the top edge. Is this a known issue? Can it harm? I don't want my cell phone exploding in my pocket. Thank you. Hevesli (talk) 16:01, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Perhaps the battery is swelling up and pushing the screen off. If that is the situation, get the battery replaced. This may cost $40-70 in a phone repair shop, so may be more than the value of the phone. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:13, 28 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Affirmation to Graeme Bartlett. – Had same issue with an aftermarket battery into my LG G3 about a year ago. As I kept the original battery (which had lost some capacity) I could put this in temporarily. Another original replacement-battery was a matter of a few days and a few €. --87.147.178.173 (talk) 08:59, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

You should take it to your nearest Apple store before the phone starts a fire somewhere. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:14, 29 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/What_to_do_with_a_swollen_battery .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 22:00, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]