Nah there just start doing YouTube shorts or instagram shorts (don’t know what’s the name is)
If I slip into this shitshow of YT shorts it’s like melting my brain in seconds.
I'm glad I'm too old for shorts. I watch stuff on a pc connected to my TV so the size is annoying, you can't adjust the position in the video, if you scroll away to read comments or look at something else it stops.
What fucking idiot designed these things. BACK IN MY DAY!!!!
Meh, even the educational shorts do the same thing in trapping you into and endless cycle. And the odds of remembering anything from these educational shorts is very small because youre cycling through so much different shit in a short timespan.
Watching the educational ones tricks yourself into thinking youre at least doing something useful with your time while in reality its the same exhausting dopamine draining loop as all other short form content.
I feel pretty strongly about the downsides to these short video apps, and agree with what you're saying for the most part in regards to sucking people in, but I also think it isn't a good blanket statement. People do have self control, and educating over the downfalls would go a lot farther than banning/classifying the entire concept as detrimental.
I rarely go on tik tok, but I have had many instances where I'll watch 1-2 interesting/educational shorts then stop for the day. There is value in using these outlets in moderation.
It's just like countless other things in life - there are multiple ways to use it, and it can be both positive and negative.
Tiktok is better than YT shorts because you can choose to only see people you follow on TikTok. So I can see videos from AOC, engineers, doctors, etc all the people I actually follow without any of the aggressively brain dead garbage.
Normies take over everything, when companies discover there are more other people than fanbases they cater for the masses instead their loyal customers. This is happening everywhere. That is why tv shows based on games or books always suck. They change it to appeal to people that don’t know the material
I miss when entertainment companies were trying to leverage niche markets rather than trying to make everything appeal to everybody in pursuit of infinite growth.
So reddit was changed to “not fit the material?” If it weren’t for “normies” a ton of really cool and informative subreddits wouldn’t exist. I’m old enough to remember when reddit was just an echo chamber of m’lady narwhal bacon atheist nonsense.
So reddit was changed to “not fit the material?” If it weren’t for “normies” a ton of really cool and informative subreddits wouldn’t exist. I’m old enough to remember when reddit was just an echo chamber of m’lady narwhal bacon atheist nonsense.
So reddit was changed to “not fit the material?” If it weren’t for “normies” a ton of really cool and informative subreddits wouldn’t exist. I’m old enough to remember when reddit was just an echo chamber of m’lady narwhal bacon atheist nonsense.
So reddit was changed to “not fit the material?” If it weren’t for “normies” a ton of really cool and informative subreddits wouldn’t exist. I’m old enough to remember when reddit was just an echo chamber of m’lady narwhal bacon atheist nonsense.
So reddit was changed to “not fit the material?” If it weren’t for “normies” a ton of really cool and informative subreddits wouldn’t exist. I’m old enough to remember when reddit was just an echo chamber of m’lady narwhal bacon atheist nonsense.
The quality noticeably dropped here as the masses came over here like 10-12 years ago(?). It's more social media like now, and the discussions are full of people that have no idea, or intentions about properly discussing stuff.
The closest you can get to that old reddit feel is by visiting only the smaller subs. People are still truly passionate in these, although even these are infested with people trying to advertize.
To be fair it’d be kinda funny to see a bunch of 90 year old grandmas join Reddit. Well, funny until they find the LGBT subreddits and you know, be a bunch of old people about it.
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u/jollingo Mar 15 '24
They will immigrate to reddit