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07-14-2018, 05:13 AM
Where online 'spiritual gurus' go wrong
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We all know YouTube (https://mashable.com/category/youtube/). YouTube is the biggest video platform on the planet, with about 400 hours of video uploaded to the service every second (http://www.everysecond.io/youtube).
But YouTube, of all the current content "platforms," is arguably the most fragmented. There's no newsfeed, so there's no central place where everyone — or seemingly everyone — is gathering. As a result, communities form on their own, typically around channels or personalities, and they tend to be pretty insular.
SEE ALSO: YouTube announces sweeping changes to the way it handles breaking news (https://mashable.com/2018/07/09/youtube-announces-changes-breaking-news-video-search/)
One of these communities formed around someone named Teal Swan (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_Swan). Swan is what you might call a "spiritual healer" or at least someone who believes herself to be that. But it turns out she has some very controversial thoughts on many topics, including suicide, and a lot of people think her teachings are potentially damaging — and may have contributed to the suicide of someone who followed her closely. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/13/teal-swan-guru-the-gateway-mashtalk/)
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We all know YouTube (https://mashable.com/category/youtube/). YouTube is the biggest video platform on the planet, with about 400 hours of video uploaded to the service every second (http://www.everysecond.io/youtube).
But YouTube, of all the current content "platforms," is arguably the most fragmented. There's no newsfeed, so there's no central place where everyone — or seemingly everyone — is gathering. As a result, communities form on their own, typically around channels or personalities, and they tend to be pretty insular.
SEE ALSO: YouTube announces sweeping changes to the way it handles breaking news (https://mashable.com/2018/07/09/youtube-announces-changes-breaking-news-video-search/)
One of these communities formed around someone named Teal Swan (https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teal_Swan). Swan is what you might call a "spiritual healer" or at least someone who believes herself to be that. But it turns out she has some very controversial thoughts on many topics, including suicide, and a lot of people think her teachings are potentially damaging — and may have contributed to the suicide of someone who followed her closely. Read more... (https://mashable.com/2018/07/13/teal-swan-guru-the-gateway-mashtalk/)
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