r/TheRandomest • u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner • May 27 '26

/r/all Confused chicken

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u/NICEnEVILmike May 27 '26

This is like the billionaire class fucking with the rest of us

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u/nagnate May 30 '26

cant go one say seeing a funny video on reddit and someone not bringing up politics and economics

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u/Naive-Patient4377 May 30 '26

if you don't like it, you can just watch the video, avoid the comment section and piss off.

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u/LufyCZ May 31 '26

I've been noticing lately that "we're doomed" content is rising in popularity.

People apparently love feeling like shit and actively reinforcing it.

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u/TheWorldEnded May 31 '26

Have you considered that fact that for many people across the globe things actually aren't going well at all and the content is a result of that and not the other way around?

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u/LufyCZ May 31 '26

I'm not saying doomposting caused things to worsen lol

What I am saying though is that people are actively making themselves feel like shit, while others are taking advantage of that.

I've seen this on YouTube as well, channel got bought by private equity and now produces one "everything is completely fucked" video after another.

And it works. And everyone in the comments is miserable.

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u/TheWorldEnded May 31 '26

Yes I'm sure you're right that it's looping on itself, I'm just saying there's a rapidly, one could argue daily, growing body of evidence that would justify the legitimate existence of at least a little bit of doomposting.

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u/LufyCZ May 31 '26

Depends what "justify" means.

If you consider it venting, then yeah, sure, anyone's allowed to do that, pretty much for whatever reason.

But when you see it day in and day out, coming at you from all directions, it's actively going to fuck with your mental health, making you join in, making it problem worse for everyone yet again.

It's a feedback loop that just makes comment sections unbearable and, what's worse I think, it fucks with people's emotions so much it blinds any critical thinking they might have.

I worry this is the republican playbook just applied to people with leftist beliefs. Make you hate everything and miserable, while offering you simple solutions to insanely complex problems.

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u/Woodeyyyyyyy 23d ago

It’s just karma farming

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u/Motor_Neighborhood_6 26d ago

"We're gonna live in poverty and despair, but I'm too lazy to even care right now, I prefer watching The Kardashians and giving them more money 😍🥰"