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I call this phase the proliferation of stupidity. Back when the internet started, it was mostly university professors and students using it. Now its mostly p
by DarkmSparks 2y ago
I call this phase the proliferation of stupidity.
Back when the internet started, it was mostly university professors and students using it.
Now its mostly people that are not sure if the world is flat or not.
- probably_wrong 2y agoThe term you are looking for is "Eternal September".
- TwoNineFive 2y agoNo, this is entirely different. Stupid people click on adverts. So, businesses promote and foster stupidity. Large businesses like Facebook, Reddit, and other social media is about collecting the largest pile of ad-clicking morons together in a package and selling access to advertisers.
- beezlebroxxxxxx 2y agoI don't know if I would entirely characterize it like that. Much of what is bad about the modern internet is the result of very intelligent people ("the brightest minds of my generation...") maximizing and hyper-focusing on a particular form of marketing, monopolization, financialization, and profit seeking, to the detriment of basically anything else. It's not just "more stupid people are using the internet more", it's also "very smart people have changed the way that 95% of people can interact with the internet."
- AwaAwa 2y agoShearing the sheep only requires one to be smarter than the sheep.
- onetokeoverthe 2y ago[dead]