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Do they take into account the ads that are run on those sites?
I mean, everybody talks about how YT is killing everyone but I don't get it. Unless... There was one day I sat down for breakfast, feeling great and started to play a light hearted review of a movie from Red Letter Media, about to eat a spoon full of Cheerios when an ad snuck past my ad blocker. It started off with "Cancer is different when it happens to a child." I immediately closed my browser and sat there in stunned silence for five minutes with my chin on my lap. That ad just shat all over my day before it even began. When I got back to watching RLM, I was still thinking about kids with cancer for five minutes while Mike and Jay made jokes.
If people are bombarded by that kind of bipolar stream of videos while watching YT, I can see how it can ruin your life.
In the past when you were bullied it usually was contained to school. Now with social media, it continues in the safety of your home as well.
People, super especially kids, should not have social media with their real name. No one should use social media or the Internet in general with their real name unless they have bodyguards, a PR team and plan each post like a mission to Mars. There's literally billions of people who can see you, and one of them is definitely going to be lunatic who can find out where you live and murder you in your sleep.
Eh, I refuse to be that scared.
Then you can't blame social media if it goes south. You know the risks.
Beats the hell out of existing in a state of constant anxiety, of second-guessing every decision, of looking suspiciously at every stranger I pass.
Ok? But the comment I was replying to was complaining that bullying today follows kids into the safety of their owns homes and driving them to suicide. I'm just saying, whether you're a kid or an adult, if you don't want to be bullied in the safety of your own home, don't make it possible for that to happen. It's very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very easy to avoid.
I get it, context and all, but it's very funny to me that you say you got bummed out by couple seconds of advertising for a cancer drug or treatment interrupting your video of bumbling hack frauds shouting about AIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDS. Hell, Mike literally can't help but laugh at geriatric women describing their health problems.
Like I said, it's like stepping back into Plato's Cave. It's almost impossible to explain what it's like.
It not so much the context. There's no build up to "children with cancer". Whether it's about that or not, a block of advertising is a string of shitty short films specifically designed to be like a tear jerker to get a reaction out of you within 30 seconds or less. If you're not used to that psychological tug of war, it almost physically hurts.
I have diabetes and the vascular disease that comes with it. If Mike and Jay make jokes about it, it makes it easier to live with. But if a commercial starts with a deep booming voice dripping with dread exclaiming "Diabetes". Oh yeah, I forgot for a second that it's a deadly serious disease that will probably kill me. Thanks commercial. I was living my life for a second.
No, this specifically is about how seeing content in which teens explain how to kill yourself has an impact on the probability that you try to kill yourself.
That'll do it. But also having to hear about side effects 100 times a day, including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, constipation. indigestion, belching, flatulence, fatigue, and dizziness, pancreatitis, gallbladder problems, kidney issues, and vision changes, thyroid tumors, including cancer, may not help.