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I had a similar thing happen, but in the opposite direction. Back in September (two months before the election), a random meme of Hillary Clinton popped up on
by et-al 10y ago
I had a similar thing happen, but in the opposite direction.
Back in September (two months before the election), a random meme of Hillary Clinton popped up on my Instagram Explore feed. It was funny, so I liked it. Immediately after, after one like on a seemingly innocuous meme, I started getting full blown "Hillary is a criminal" memes. Along with that, gun activism, taxation is theft, and that WW3 was going to happen. And I tried to fix this by flagging all the suggested posts as "not relevant to my interests", and even blocking the meme accounts, but Instagram wouldn't get a clue. So for weeks afterwards, my Instagram account was bombarded with pro-Trump memes. All because I thought one joke about Hillary Clinton was funny.
With all these automatically curated feeds, there's no space for moderates anymore on the internet.
- Neliquat 10y agoReminds me of that one time I watched a playthrough of an old video game that is now obscure. 3 years later, torrents of wannabe pewdiepies are all that is suggested to me. The related videos are now mostly useless even. Autocuration is cancer.