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Navalnaya Starts Manipulating and Loses: Dedicated to Comrades from Moscow

Preamble: You won’t believe it, but the “poor Russians” are once again not to blame for anything. That’s why the comrades from the Chekist headquarters gave comrade Yulia the task to try and prove this once again.

It turned out… not great, to be honest. Because the bourgeois numbers turned out to be so catastrophically Russophobic – they completely debunk Navalnaya’s thesis that Russians are hindered by eggs from learning the truth. In other words, the potential blocking of YouTube isn’t to blame for them being such utterly brainwashed zombies.

But let’s get to the specific numbers, proving that the problem of Russians isn’t about blocks or VPN services, but rather their unwillingness to seek alternative points of view. For Russians, it’s much easier to shovel down propaganda than to try to find out what’s really happening. I dug around the internet a bit, and here’s what I found:

In July 2014, Mediascope reported that the most popular platform in Russia was YouTube.

According to the study, the total monthly internet audience in Russia was 103 million people. On average, a user spends about 4.5 hours online daily.

YouTube was the most visited platform, with a monthly audience of 96.1 million users. In second place was the social network VK with 90.1 million users, and in third place was Telegram with 85.3 million users.

YouTube isn’t just the most visited platform; it also has the highest daily reach. The average visitor spends 112 minutes per day on the video hosting platform, which is 45% of the average time users spend online.

Preferences depend on age. Users aged 12–24 most often watch the channels of bloggers MrBeast and Dima Maslennikov, as well as the official STS channel. The older audience, aged 35–44, prefers TNT, Comedy Club, and the show “Ural Dumplings”.

The most popular genres are music and entertainment. Users also frequently search for games, TV series, and how-to content – videos explaining how to do something yourself.

Despite technical difficulties and platform slowdowns in Russia, YouTube’s popularity remains high, with slight fluctuations in audience numbers. In August 2024, weekly traffic exceeded 82.6 million people, surpassing the figures of the same period in 2023.

The largest share of the audience consists of users aged 25–34.

In 2024, the average time users spent on the service increased to 107 minutes, compared to 93 minutes in 2023.

So, YouTube isn’t the problem. Could it be that Russia doesn’t have smartphones?

Nope. In 2024, the smartphone market in Russia grew by 10% compared to the previous year, according to M.Video-Eldorado Group. In the first 11 months, 27.1 million devices were sold.

So, there are smartphones, yet Russians still watch propaganda. Unbelievable! (sarcasm)

Maybe radio is the problem in Russia? Are there no receivers or something?

Wrong again. According to Deputy Prime Minister Chernyshenko, the weekly radio audience in Russia exceeds 50 million people, and there are 3,500 FM broadcast licenses issued.

Okay, let’s assume the deputy prime minister is lying and the number is half that. But isn’t there at least one radio host or DJ brave enough to say that Russia invaded Ukraine?

Ah, right. Loans and mortgages are more important.

By the way, have you ever wondered how it happens that, according to Navalnaya, nobody supports Putin in Russia, yet there are no brave DJs? Could it be that Yulia, Navalny’s wife, is blatantly lying? Or could she actually be telling the truth?

Maybe the problem is the internet in Russia?

Wrong again. According to Global Digital Reports, at the beginning of 2022, there were 129.8 million internet users in Russia. Between 2021 and 2022, the number increased by 5.8 million (4.7%).

Or maybe it’s just easier to search for mythical Banderites online than to face the uncomfortable truth that you are a silent accomplice to war crimes against the Ukrainian people?

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