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> With that I mean the mass production of content that is illegal, harmful, misinformation, divisive, stolen or down-right low quality. 100%. Look at the front
by AlwaysRock 5y ago
> With that I mean the mass production of content that is illegal, harmful, misinformation, divisive, stolen or down-right low quality.
100%. Look at the front page of most popular websites. It's mostly outrage in some form or another. Reddit r/popular is so bad now. It's mostly videos of public freakouts, idiots in cars, or someone yelling about something on tik tok with the occasional uplifting post. Outrage content makes websites more money.
- fleddr 5y agoVery much so. I'd even extend the outrage phenomenon to real life and non-tech. "I just had a perfectly reasonable conversation with my neighbor on a matter of no consequence" Said nobody ever. "Omg did you hear what that idiot down the block said this time?" Said everybody, all the time. The very act of gossip is to dramatize something mildly unusual and escalate it into an ever juicer story as it passes around. We are Facebook.