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> We’re at a very bad place in American discourse. Well, the internet connected into a billion+ audience in last 20 years. We didn't have the ability to give a

> We’re at a very bad place in American discourse. Well, the internet connected into a billion+ audience in last 20 years. We didn't have the ability to give a megaphone to every crackpot ~20 years ago. You'd have to physically rally people behind you, literally on the road to get your movement going. Now, Big Tech will gladly serve you that priviledge for a pretty penny off of clicks. And so will the media. The natural physical filter is no more. It used to sort of self-censor people because they couldn't get a following. Now mainstream media is on the Internet and so are the gullible citizens. Blame the following: Big Tech, Internet Media houses (NYT is constantly full of rage, Fox too), Social Media giants (Twitter, FB, Tiktok, Reddit). Next wave of understanding will come from in-person social life. It will be the anti-thesis of Metaverse.

thebigjewbowski 5y ago
It was a weird feeling when the news started to report on popular YouTube videos and later social media posts. More lately social media TRENDS. The media landscape has become so strange in the past decade. The more I think about it, advertising and more abstractly, corporatism, are really to blame. How many of the “video games are violent and bad” or “Marilyn Manson is the devil” people were there really in 90’s early 2000’s? Starbucks hates Christmas people in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s? Were they just amplified by the media? Is social media and the internet really to blame or did they just exploit a greedy industry already broken by years of mergers and acquisitions by conglomerates who already weren’t keen on spending on journalism?