Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/science/youtube-science-women.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Women Making Science Videos on YouTube Face Hostile Comments

After studying 23,005 comments left on videos about science and related topics, a researcher says, “I could see why people would not want to be on YouTube.”

By Adrianne Jeffries
July 13, 2018

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A screen grab of Emily Graslie's channel, The Brain Scoop, from a recent episode about skunk dissection.Creditvia YouTube
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics are popular topics on YouTube. Some channels that stream videos on these subjects have millions of subscribers. Most are hosted by men.

“There is a lot of discussion about YouTube being an unpleasant environment for female creators,” said Inoaka Amarasekara, an Australian researcher in science communication. “I wanted to see if that affected science communication on YouTube, and if that was something I could corroborate.”

In fact it was.

“She so ugly I almost threw up. Ew.”

“I was just staring at your bbbooo.....i mean eyes.”

“Go back to the kitchen and make me double stack sandwich.”

These are some of the 23,005 YouTube comments that form the basis of a new paper by Ms. Amarasekara and Will Grant, a lecturer at Australian National University, published last week in the journal Public Understanding of Science. They found a tough environment for women who create YouTube videos centered on science, drawing both more comments per view than men and also a higher proportion of critical comments as well as remarks about their appearances.

 

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The researchers found that about 14 percent of comments for female on-camera hosts were critical, compared to about six percent for male hosts.

They also found female hosts got a much larger proportion of comments about appearance (4.5 percent for women versus 1.4 percent for men) and comments that were sexist or sexual (nearly three percent of comments for women versus about a quarter-percent for men).

There were some positives for women as well. Female on-camera hosts elicited more comments, likes and subscribers per view than the other categories. They even received a slightly higher percentage of positive comments compared to male hosts.

Some of the researchers’ findings echoed a 2014 study that looked at comments on TED Talks. When the presenter was a women, 15.28 percent of comments were about her as opposed to the talk, TED or other topic. When the speaker was a man, only 9.84 percent of comments were about him.

That study also found that comments for videos with female presenters tended to be more “emotional” — significantly both more positive and negative.

 

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Facing YouTube critics is like “someone is leaving a Post-it note on your desk every day telling you why you’re not qualified or why your voice is horrid,” said Vanessa Hill, who has 435,330 subscribers on her channel BrainCraft.

“I’m sure it does discourage some female creators from starting a channel, but I think it goes further than that,” she said. “It discourages female creators from continuing to make videos and being able to do that at a professional or semiprofessional level.”

 

[ginfreely]

To ccb Malaysians and sinkies, even if a woman that talked nothing about sex and no response to sexting is called ALSO horny slut and loose TOO.

 

[ginfreely]

Bring in the ten million foreigners. Ccb sinkies deserved it!

 

[glockman]

@ginfreely So, all sinkies and mudlanders are ccb in your book. Since you are so unhappy, why don't you migrate elsewhere? I hear the maoris in NZ, the aborigines in OZ and the niggers in the US would love to have a chink woman like you in their harem.

 

[AhMeng]

@ginfreely So, all sinkies and mudlanders are ccb in your book. Since you are so unhappy, why don't you migrate elsewhere? I hear the maoris in NZ, the aborigines in OZ and the niggers in the US would love to have a chink woman like you in their harem.

Lol

 

[Valium]

People also complain about your sex videos in xtube. You zoom in so close to your big cheebye, people can't see what a fucking ravishing piece of cunt face you have.

Zoom out you whore, so that they can see both your cheebyes. Your mouth and your mouth below.

 

[ginfreely]

@ginfreely So, all sinkies and mudlanders are ccb in your book. Since you are so unhappy, why don't you migrate elsewhere? I hear the maoris in NZ, the aborigines in OZ and the niggers in the US would love to have a chink woman like you in their harem.

Ccb Malaysian dog tell that to yourself and get lost from Singapore! Go work in USA Europe India wherever!

 

[ginfreely]

People also complain about your sex videos in xtube. You zoom in so close to your big cheebye, people can't see what a fucking ravishing piece of cunt face you have.

Zoom out you whore, so that they can see both your cheebyes. Your mouth and your mouth below.

I never have sex but have sex videos. That’s how ccb Malaysians are! Post here lah or go post in your ccb Malaysian newspapers and boast lah! Let whole world know how ccb Malaysians are!

 

[ginfreely]

To ccb Malaysians and sinkies, even if a woman that talked nothing about sex and no response to sexting is called ALSO horny slut and loose TOO.

Horn loose and have ses videos! That’s how ccb Malaysians that can’t win a good Singaporean woman by proper ways will do so by ccb comments. No matter how proper women are, as long as have ccb Malaysians enemies become slandered as filthy woman!

 

[Valium]

I never have sex but have sex videos.

I take that as admission

 

[ginfreely]

I take that as admission

That’s what you said of me ok ccb Malaysian son of whore. No sex but have sex videos!

 

[ginfreely]

Horn loose and have ses videos! That’s how ccb Malaysians that can’t win a good Singaporean woman by proper ways will do so by ccb comments. No matter how proper women are, as long as have ccb Malaysians enemies become slandered as filthy woman!

Ccb Malaysian men and women both use ccb comments to win good Singaporean woman. That’s how ccb Malaysians are!

 

[Valium]

That’s what you said of me ok ccb Malaysian son of whore. No sex but have sex videos!

Ya, we know you have sex videos. Hahaha. Seen it all, you small nehneh and your loose pussy.

 

[ginfreely]

@frenchbriefs now you know why there are no women in top science or whatever field because too many ccb men and women will harm them with ccb comments!

 

[ginfreely]

Ya, we know you have sex videos. Hahaha. Seen it all, you small nehneh and your loose pussy.

Post here lah ccb Malaysians! No sex before but have sex video must be newsworthy. Go boast in worldwide newspapers of how smart ccb Malaysians are to make that a possibility!

 

[Valium]

@frenchbriefs now you know why there are no women in top science or whatever field because too many ccb men and women will harm them with ccb comments!

But you are in top porn despite your inadequacies and everybody's criticism. Nothing stopped you from crawling your ranks up to top whore.

 

[Valium]

Post here lah ccb Malaysians! No sex before but have sex video must be newsworthy. Go boast in worldwide newspapers of how smart ccb Malaysians are to make that a possibility!

Nobody wants to see your filthy cunt here....

 

[ginfreely]

Post here lah ccb Malaysians! No sex before but have sex video must be newsworthy. Go boast in worldwide newspapers of how smart ccb Malaysians are to make that a possibility!

Ya call that a ccb Malaysian invention of how a virgin is possible to have sex video!