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Attention economy websites cause otherwise normal people to start acting like reality TV show characters or politicians.
by bee_rider 1y ago
Attention economy websites cause otherwise normal people to start acting like reality TV show characters or politicians.
- bowsamic 1y agoIndeed. Really there’s no good option. Either you get screwed over by the attention economy and your family members become conspiracy theorists, or you give up and become a furry or something
- Cthulhu_ 1y agoAnd due to survivorship bias, they make it look like you have to act like that in order to "win", but since it's a numbers game you end up with millions of would-be influencers doing the influencer routines and getting the influencer personality, which is... pretty insufferable in real life. But they're different worlds entirely.