this is a :a-guy: post

So my grandma couldn't live alone anymore and she moved into my parents house about a year ago. Her new bedroom doesn't have cable. Her media diet used to be like 90% TV and 10% internet. Now it's reversed.

She's 90 years old and just a conventional methodist.

What probably happened is she searched youtube for gospel music to do crosswords by. 100,000 iterations of the algorithm later she believes in ancient aliens, crises actors, millenarianism, all of it.

Same thing probably happened in rural communities who got the full internet all at once. They didn't get it by degrees, dial-up alta vista, to learn years of bullshit filtering heuristics.

  • ajouter [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    let's not pretend millennials and gen z are any more media literate.

    • hes_fired [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Like and subscribe and don't forget to hit that bell on this innocuous video about celebrities to get nothing but alt-right pipeline directly into your feed for the next 6 of your formative years

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        This wacky relatable rich sociopath influencer is GIVING AWAY his money for silly challenges! All is well. The system works. :so-true: