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This is quaint. The darkest monetization is turning it into 4chan 2.0: an overwhelming psyop to mobilize exploitable people to think, believe and do horrendous
by heavyset_go 8mo ago
This is quaint. The darkest monetization is turning it into 4chan 2.0: an overwhelming psyop to mobilize exploitable people to think, believe and do horrendous shit that conveniently benefits the most powerful and corrupt people on Earth.
It will make Qanon seem like a cute ARG.
- vkou 8mo agoI mean, money can serve a similar purpose. ...Which is also why people who control a lot of it are an existential threat to civilization.
- cucumber3732842 8mo agoDude, look back on the last 20yr. If you think that sort of think is limited to "alternative" places like 4Chan you're sorely mistaken. What you're afraid of is already here and has been for a long time.
- heavyset_go 8mo agoI'm well aware that the internet is overwhelmingly a psyop. I brought up 4chan because of just how absurd, influential and successful its manipulation has been. It shit-tier meme'd its way to a presidency and multiple worldwide movements that culminated in a subsequent insurrection, all the while being incredibly, well, dumb. The fact that we have people goosestepping to MSpaint frog meme flags and mass shooters doing it for the lulz shows how stupid things can get and will continue to be. Multiply that by x10000 and that's the vision for the future: memelords stamping on a human face forever at the behest of the Ministry of Memes.