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Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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Grow your own blueberry bushes and then you can have more blueberries for 3 weeks during the height of summer than you could possibly use for the next 2 years but it's too fucking hot to pick them and the birds eat them all so quickly that you end up having to buy those sweet blue balls from the grocery store for the other 49 weeks of the year regardless.
As with most doomer posts, 2/3 of that is just a problem of being addicted to social media - not necessarily a problem with the era itself.
It's weird that people didn't get addicted to social media in other eras, isn't it?
I mean, it's not like social media doomerism is some mandatory thing. The internet shows us what we want to see - if someone wants to spend their whole life reading about every possible bad thing in the world, that's on them.
The Internet used to show us what we wanted to see. Now it shows us what it thinks we will most engage with even if it is not what we most want to see. So if the algorithm figures out that a person on engages well with right-wing media sources, that's what it will show them more of. It doesn't matter what that person's politics are, all that matters is that the algorithm has figured out what the user will most engage with.
And that is how reality is being rewritten with fantasy in real time.
If someone is engaging in a certain kind of content, I would argue that's the content they want to see. It might not be what they enjoy seeing, or what's good for them, but you can't seek out right wing content and then tell me you don't want to see right wing content. At some point, there has to be a level of personal liability here.
And. Yet. Here. You. Are.
Is that supposed to be some grand statement? Yeah, I enjoy occasionally posting on stuff like this - never said otherwise.
No, see they are miserable so you must be miserable.
They don't want to not engage with these services that they know manipulate them but choose to do so anyway but deny any responsibility for their own actions because those same algorithms told them they aren't responsible.
Again, they aren’t seeking it out.
If they're getting inundated with it to the point it's affecting their actual mental health, then they obviously need to change something. Whether it's the quantity or the quality of the content they consume. Logging off and going outside is always an option.
Well now you're just contradicting yourself. If someone is getting inundated with certain content that it's affecting their mental health, then that's not content they want to see. That's like saying if someone is being bullied, it's because they want to be bullied otherwise they'd change.
I've never been on the internet, much less a smartphone, and I'm still depressed as shit.
This meme is so basic, it's probably made by a bot.
