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Can you provide details of this watershed date?

• syndicatedjelly 3y ago
  That was the year that the phrases “influencer” and “content creator” entered the vernacular.
• simiones 3y ago
  This suggests the problem pretty well: https://xkcd.com/331/ https://xkcd.com/331/
  • agumonkey 3y ago
    no joke, when I close my eyes, the strange light patterns behind my eye lids are somehow pixelated now, i'm afraid LCDs altered cells in my retina somehow
    • araes 3y ago
      You are what you eat, hear, touch, smell, see. ...all your life will ever be.
      • simiones 3y ago
        For anyone intrigued, this is paraphrasing a beautiful line from Pink Floyd's "Breathe (In The Air)" from Dark Side of the Moon.
• RGamma 3y ago
  From my memory around that time (2014-2016), smartphones went big and became easy to use such that the dumber half of the population now also had access, platformication intensified, and the human scale social norms that held most of the web together were displaced by noise and oblivion by way of engagement maximization. It's also the time I got rid of Reddit and FB (though FB was only ever chat bridged to weechat for me) for good. Also, algorithmic feeds, "influencers" and "content".
• sneed_chucker 3y ago
  That's when I remember shit starting to get ridiculously astroturfed with everything related to the 2016 election, it's also when I remember YouTube starting to crack down on any videos it seemed not ad-friendly. But I don't think there's that much of a watershed date, more like a slow march that accelerated during the Trump era and then went into overdrive after 2020.