Imo, late-2000s YouTube was organic compared to what it’s become.
Imo, late-2000s YouTube was organic compared to what it’s become.
That 99.9% of the time social media “virality” is just admin from YouTube and TikTok manually choosing which of their favorite influencers are forced upon users. I’m not even talking execs here, just low-ranking code monkeys and paper pushers on a power trip.
That most Meta workers abuse their power and read users’ DMs. Pretty sure this has been confirmed, though not by Zuck and the gang—just random ex-employees. I knew a guy who worked for Facebook who my gut-instinct says was cyber-stalking me. He let a piece of really personal info about me slip during a convo. It wasn’t a dark secret, just something that I’d barely told anyone. I assumed that maybe my friend had told him, but she said she’d hardly spoken to him.
I remember seeing a poster of Maxfield Parish’s Daybreak, looking the painting up online and feeling super depressed when I read that no one can ever see the original in person because some anonymous asshole bought it for over $25 million dollars. The worst part is that for all we know, the buyer could’ve decided to set it on fire and feed the ashes to pigeons. It’s their property. Rich people can seriously just take important artifacts with barely any oversight. They collect the weirdest shit, too: the personal letters of celebrities, Gutenberg bibles, stolen Egyptian art. It’s literally just hoarding but expensive.
then I think they need to improve their media literacy.
Cool, another pithy new buzzword from the wonk-net. Gonna place this on my shelf next to “disinformation” and throw them at anyone who disagrees with my views.
I’ve given up on those sites ever being taken down. Silver lining is that a lot of right-wingers (i.e. Red Scare, Yarvin, etc.) are targets now. Fingers crossed that internet trash chokes to death on its own fumes.
but only serious chuds buy American flag shirts.
Every racist brawl in the south has at least one chud in an American flag wife-beater.
True. I feel like furry hate made the word “de-gen-er-ate” more popular online. “Autist” as well as ableism in general.
edit: The word is banned here, so I spelled it out weird.
Omg, yes! It boggles my mind how casually people on the internet will bring the fact that a big part of their childhoods was stalking and bullying a severely mentally ill person. So weird. The saga’s more mainstream than other chan-related things. There’re hours-long documentaries this person’s life and a subreddit with thousands of members—and everyone just acts like it’s completely normal even now.
My hot take: the level of hatred for just that one individual did more damage to the public’s perception of autistic people than Autism Speaks.
False equivalence.