Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.
Recently watched a documentary called ‘the YouTube effect’ by Alex Winter (bill of bill and ted) which goes into how YouTube was essential in the current global state of radicalized individuals.
In the earlyish days of the internet (late 1990s / early 00s) I fell deep down the rabbit hole of right wing hate and conspiracy theories…
One subject of the doc explains his descent. It is almost exactly mine. Only these days it is hyper stimulated, laser targeted, data driven, psychological warfare, wrapped in polished, billionaire backed campaigns.
It comes at you from wherever you are.
Crypto bros. Health/hydro bros. incel bros. Christian bros. Muslim bros. Rogan bros. Peterson bros. Elmo bros. Tech bros. Anon bros. etc.
By the time a lot of people realize what’s happened, if ever, they’re already in too deep.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bro people were eating tidepods and we saw a resurgence of nazism and white nationlism.
I think we at least know the effects of what was happening before.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Could we convince the Nazis to eat the tide pods?
Sabin10@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…probably
Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Just get 4chan to convince the imbeciles that it’s a white supremacist symbol like they did with the okay sign.
tmsqhazdzp@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…something something… making your whites whiter… they’ll get the message they’re after
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 year ago
apparently there weren’t really any people eating tide pods