• dannoffs [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The video is very interesting and has way more information than just answering the title question. That said, we don’t actually know for sure but probably something to do with agriculture interrupting the locust’s reproduction cycle.

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        Yeah sorry I didn’t mean to dunk on the video that hard. I think my comment was a little overly harsh sounding, especially since I actually love really long videos, I guess this one just didn’t speak to me.

        But thank you for summarizing it for me anyway!

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          No worries, it sucks that all YouTubers have to play the title clickbait game to make a living. I’m just personally a big fan of this specific creator so I’ve seen all his videos. He’s got a real late 90’s public access television vibe that I love.

          He also lived in China for awhile so while he does sometimes have lib takes, it’s usually pretty good.

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        This answer makes a ton of sense to me, given how we’ve completely agriformed a huge unbroken swath of the North American continent.