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.

  • BerserkPoster [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    See, I watched some video about... I cant even remember what it was, but it had something to do with some evolutionary process. Immediate recommendations were all videos about how evolution is a lie and creationism is real. The video i watched was not a creationist video. Like wtf it was actually scary to me because I was like, is this what happens to people? I don't really follow youtube recommendations much anyway, I usually search for videos directly