Destined for clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan.
Destined for clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan.
Pakistanis are looking for certainty. Astrologers on YouTube want to help.
When i was saying youtube is cancer, i didn't mean the zodiac sign.
Sure, that's definitely a country that needs more wishy washy magic crap on top of all their current issues.
People in times of desperate oppression and violence rarely turn to the uncaring vastness of the chaotic universe for comfort.
Sounds like something a Scorpio would say...
I’d bet islamists hate this kind of “fortune telling”. I wonder if that will create any problems down the road.
Edit: yup, Islamists mad
The rise of the YouTube astrologers has caused consternation among Islamic scholars and clerics who call the practice heterodox or even a form of shirk, or idolatry, in which predictions about the future are seen as claims to God’s omniscience.
Thanks to YouTube I am now a Zoroastrian. That algorithm just knows me