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.
all roads lead to PBS Spacetime for me. I can't avoid it. I will remove it from my homescreen entirely. Ban it and any other space-related channels. And then 2 weeks later it's back like a cockroach infestation.
I've had a few of their vids show up on my recommended, I click on them because I want to pretend to know what a muon is, but 2 minutes in and I have literally no clue what the bearded guy is talking about.