I’m old enough to remember what life was like before an algorithm-based internet, and I can tell you that the damage it has caused to our country’s cultural fabric has been catastrophically ruinous.
It’s not your imagination - people are stupider than they used to be, and a large reason is because of how much they’ve allowed their brains to get rotted out by personalized algorithmic content feeds that insidiously confirm all of their biases and never challenge their beliefs. None of us are immune to this, myself included.
Intellectualism is dying a slow and ignominious death in the US, and I’m fucking sick of it. I’m done. I’m going to focus on my real life, making memories with my wife and daughter, and I encourage you all to do the same. Get off twitter. Stop watching short-form video content. Get away from the algorithms. Leave youtube behind. We were happier, smarter, and kinder before we made all of this horseshit a constant accessory to our lives.
this man got impeached twice AND arrested and he’s still in our face running for president. and people are still voting for him. shit is actually crazy lol
Here me out:
Sonic and Shadow Gens 'FINAL STORY' DLC
A Frontiers styled titan fight where the time-eater and Neo Devil Doom fuse is some BS way.
Kellin Quinn Live and Learn cover, multi phases where you switch between Sonic and Shadow.
The irony of Trump's McDonald's photo op:
•As a convicted felon he can't work at McD's
•As POTUS he blocked a $15 min wage that would've helped countless McD's employees
•As POTUS he weakend McD's employees ability to Unionize
His photo op is 100% fraud—which defines him well
H - nothing wrong with me
O - nothing wrong with me
T - nothing wrong with me
T - NOTHING WRONG WITH ME
O - something's got to give
G - something's got to give
O - SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
NOWWWWWW
Chris here - just to elaborate.
Not been a fan of Mr Beast's content for many years now. I don’t think he’s inherently bad, but like many folks his content isn’t aimed at me and thankfully his videos never appear on my homepage.
However, seeing him partner with Logan Paul, a man who's done nothing but awful act after act for almost a decade now just made me snap.
It may have been six years but I still have the dystopian fucked up image in my head, of Logan Paul vlogging himself in the Aokigahara forest, mocking somebody who was quite literally hanging from a tree before him. And rather than do what any decent person would do, and show compassion and immediately switch off the camera, he recklessly and selfishly exploited it for views. He carried on filming. He joked about it. And then he actively uploaded it to his channel.
Then I had to go on Japanese national tv and explain why a foreign YouTuber would want to exploit a man who’d tragically taken his own life for views. Understandably, everyone in Japan was confused why anyone would do such a thing.
And while I believe in forgiveness, Logan Paul hasn't exactly reformed his character. He's not a changed man - barely a week goes by without a new headline of some outrageous, awful shit he's actively partaken in.
So to see the world's largest Youtube gleefully partner with a man like that and endorse them to an audience of tens of millions of kids is something that just sickens me, all in the name of some disgustingly tacky food product, again aimed at children. I'm not sure what counter argument he has up his sleeve this time, but you can be damn sure references to philanthropy will be made in abundance.
My rant wasn’t about “making money is bad”. It was about the act of making money by partnering with a man with an abhorrent track record to sell crap food aimed at children seems like a pretty spectacular error of judgment.
It's happening. There are real companies who will just use an AI-created rip of my voice to promote their stuff. And there's really no repercussions for it other than being known as this scummy shady company that is willing to stoop that low to sell some product