Well, it’s a big and heterogeneous “outside” if we want to be nitpicky about it.

Maybe. But your impression of it may be skewed, because there are a lot of non-USA people here. That creste some mismatch in terms that tend to overwaight the perceived size of left-leaning people. But it’s terminology, really. What in USA is considered “left” more-or-less align with what is considered left outside of USA. But what an average Trump supporter call “conservative”, in the rest of the word is simply know as lunacy.

I think that license similar to what D&D has is having a cake and eating a cake. You open your word to be used which grows the community, but you remain the control on key characters and aspects, so your onwers intrests are protected.

There is simpler explanation. People who watched this video acvtualy buy the product more often then people who didn’t.

So it flaged you as someone potentially interested and selected you when advertisers chose to target people similar to their actuall historical clients.

(I’m not saying they don’t scan videos. I’m saying they don’t have to do it to achieve effect like this)