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Welcome to The Explanation from the BBC World Service.
This is The Media Show.
We're here to explain the trends behind the fast-changing media landscape.
Hello, I'm Ross Atkins, and this week on The Media Show,
why YouTubers in the north of England are being accused of exploiting vulnerable people for clicks.
Also,
how pirated football streams became so popular that they posed the sport with a financial crisis.
And we'll report on the latest development in Netflix's podcast strategy.
The mayor of Greater Manchester in the north of England has accused YouTubers of giving his city a bad name by deliberately provoking confrontations with street drinkers and drug addicts.
He's called it a phenomenon.
And this all centres on the Piccadilly Gardens area of the city centre.
If you look online you'll see that these videos are hugely popular.
Here's a clip from one YouTuber.
This is Charlie Veach in a video titled Very Big Trouble in Piccadilly Gardens.
Okay, welcome back to Central Manchester.
I can just tell it's going to be a good one.