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This is buzzfeed, one of the biggest contributors of this shit culture we now experience. Just watch how they randomly call some arbitrary twitter account a na

This is buzzfeed, one of the biggest contributors of this shit culture we now experience. Just watch how they randomly call some arbitrary twitter account a nazi: > 14. Then suddenly there are Nazis everywhere. This outrage culture is horrible, Buzzfeed is a heavy contributor which makes them horrible and I wish people would just stop.

PavlovsCat 7y ago
> wish people would just stop That's not "just" going to happen, no more than Twitter, Facebook and Youtube will "just stop" sending people into feedback loops of radicalization. Case studies are good for educating people, who just see their own small contribution at some of the stages. That it's hosted on buzzfeed is unfortunate -- if you know of something better on another site, share it. I have a bunch of "shit X says" collections I sometimes put things I stumble over into, here's some shit HN says: > > people shouldn't buy phones from the manufacturers they don't trust. > You're literally hosting your life on it. You should indeed not do this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244303 Nobody batted an eyelid at "literally hosting your life on it". No, the question is just how to best do that. > I have begun wondering aloud about whether the social media era is our closest approach as a species to telepathy. [..] The stories I read that had telepathic species glossed over their transformation, usually with some variant on the phrase, "It wasn't pretty." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943994 > I remember life before smartphones. I remember boredom. It sucked. I would never go back to the agonizing pain of sitting in the DMV for three ours or standing in line at a grocery store just for some "missed moment" where I study the shitty tabloids in line or DoT pamphlets. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665 > Having lived through the horrors of the pre-smartphone days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342 I could find more, if I used algolia I could find ten thousands. I know it's petty. But it's also true, the fish stinks from the head and that's SV rather than buzzfeed.
beaconstudios 7y ago
I'm not sure if this is satirical, but the user they called a Nazi has a Hitler pepe avatar and uses the "echo" meme. That's about as straightforward as you can get. Otherwise, yeah. Buzzfeed often acts as an outrage factory - it gets clicks. Much of our media landscape is moving in that direction now because it's the most profitable form of "news".
- mscasts 7y ago
  I am not satirical. Maybe the troll is a nazi but honestly, no one can for sure know. The hitler pepe meme is a meme making fun of the fact that many media outlets are happily using the term nazi against everyone they dislike. It's pretty obvious that the account is a troll account and that they are a big parody of the outrage culture by using the exact same outrage but with a twist. By even acknowledging any of these outrage trolls they show that they are no better and is in the sandbox with them. This is the level of Buzzfeed, they belong with the trolls throwing sand at each other.
  - dash2 7y ago
    Guy, you do realise that the entire story is made up? None of those tweets or accounts are real? Sheesh.
    - beaconstudios 7y ago
      yes it's a fake example, but the general trend is real. You can see real instances of this mock story play out regularly.
    - mscasts 7y ago
      No, I did not realize that. How could I know? There is no text explaining that this isn't real and the screenshots look real enough. It's not like the story would be uncommon or important enough that I'd care to actually look it up myself. If they are mocking the outrage culture, it may be even worse since Buzzfeed is one of the media outlets carrying a big part of developing it.

PavlovsCat 7y ago

> wish people would just stop That's not "just" going to happen, no more than Twitter, Facebook and Youtube will "just stop" sending people into feedback loops of radicalization. Case studies are good for educating people, who just see their own small contribution at some of the stages. That it's hosted on buzzfeed is unfortunate -- if you know of something better on another site, share it. I have a bunch of "shit X says" collections I sometimes put things I stumble over into, here's some shit HN says: > > people shouldn't buy phones from the manufacturers they don't trust. > You're literally hosting your life on it. You should indeed not do this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244303 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17244303 Nobody batted an eyelid at "literally hosting your life on it". No, the question is just how to best do that. > I have begun wondering aloud about whether the social media era is our closest approach as a species to telepathy. [..] The stories I read that had telepathic species glossed over their transformation, usually with some variant on the phrase, "It wasn't pretty." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943994 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16943994 > I remember life before smartphones. I remember boredom. It sucked. I would never go back to the agonizing pain of sitting in the DMV for three ours or standing in line at a grocery store just for some "missed moment" where I study the shitty tabloids in line or DoT pamphlets. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913665 > Having lived through the horrors of the pre-smartphone days https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15913342 I could find more, if I used algolia I could find ten thousands. I know it's petty. But it's also true, the fish stinks from the head and that's SV rather than buzzfeed.

beaconstudios 7y ago

I'm not sure if this is satirical, but the user they called a Nazi has a Hitler pepe avatar and uses the "echo" meme. That's about as straightforward as you can get. Otherwise, yeah. Buzzfeed often acts as an outrage factory - it gets clicks. Much of our media landscape is moving in that direction now because it's the most profitable form of "news".

mscasts 7y ago
I am not satirical. Maybe the troll is a nazi but honestly, no one can for sure know. The hitler pepe meme is a meme making fun of the fact that many media outlets are happily using the term nazi against everyone they dislike. It's pretty obvious that the account is a troll account and that they are a big parody of the outrage culture by using the exact same outrage but with a twist. By even acknowledging any of these outrage trolls they show that they are no better and is in the sandbox with them. This is the level of Buzzfeed, they belong with the trolls throwing sand at each other.
- dash2 7y ago
  Guy, you do realise that the entire story is made up? None of those tweets or accounts are real? Sheesh.
  - beaconstudios 7y ago
    yes it's a fake example, but the general trend is real. You can see real instances of this mock story play out regularly.
  - mscasts 7y ago
    No, I did not realize that. How could I know? There is no text explaining that this isn't real and the screenshots look real enough. It's not like the story would be uncommon or important enough that I'd care to actually look it up myself. If they are mocking the outrage culture, it may be even worse since Buzzfeed is one of the media outlets carrying a big part of developing it.