Not entirely sure what you mean but especially on sites like Reddit I’ve felt for years that they’ve become the people they used to make fun of. It was always a little cringe, but I remember subs like r/atheism and r/politics had more of an edge to them. Feels like now all there is is the reactionary outrage of the day and Russian interference shit. I don’t know if this started around gamergate or the Pao stuff, but it certainly kicked it into a higher gear. Reddit is now fully a giant yahoo news comment section, if anyone remembers what those look like.
Gamergate and the Pao stuff was definitely the point it reached critical mass. I think that might have just been the result of a long, steady change though. I blame it more on increasing user numbers. Maybe the younger people that normally would have ended up on the chans found reddit first or something, maybe it's a result of the whole hive mind concept. I guess there's probably more than one reason. I completely agree though, reddit used to be where I'd go to talk about how dumb more mainstream sites were. You'd see funny shit on reddit then a week later they'd get to facebook. Now reddit moves at the same, sometimes even slower speed than those other sites. The world became more "online" though, that's undeniable.
95% of people using social media don't give a fuck about the weird debates that spawn there, they just have them so that they post pics with their friends or at best share memes. It is also boomer mindset to constantly be like "these social medias that the kids watch? They are making them weak narcissists and all they know is how to post their butt on the Instagrams" lol
You see im not a communist, more of a democratic socialist.
Under communism there's blatant corruption, but after the orange turd I guess its just mainstream to be corrupt now.
Not entirely sure what you mean but especially on sites like Reddit I’ve felt for years that they’ve become the people they used to make fun of. It was always a little cringe, but I remember subs like r/atheism and r/politics had more of an edge to them. Feels like now all there is is the reactionary outrage of the day and Russian interference shit. I don’t know if this started around gamergate or the Pao stuff, but it certainly kicked it into a higher gear. Reddit is now fully a giant yahoo news comment section, if anyone remembers what those look like.
Gamergate and the Pao stuff was definitely the point it reached critical mass. I think that might have just been the result of a long, steady change though. I blame it more on increasing user numbers. Maybe the younger people that normally would have ended up on the chans found reddit first or something, maybe it's a result of the whole hive mind concept. I guess there's probably more than one reason. I completely agree though, reddit used to be where I'd go to talk about how dumb more mainstream sites were. You'd see funny shit on reddit then a week later they'd get to facebook. Now reddit moves at the same, sometimes even slower speed than those other sites. The world became more "online" though, that's undeniable.
I was part of the digg exodus
I was a little before but probably used Digg more than reddit until the exodus. They really ruined Digg haha.
People telling others to get off facebook in 2019 vibes.
I'm convinced the only reason I'm a communist is because I never had any social media to suck me in and commodify and idologize me.
I did spend time on reddit, but mostly avoided the defaults until Trump and immediately felt the propaganda pull and started to back out.
95% of people using social media don't give a fuck about the weird debates that spawn there, they just have them so that they post pics with their friends or at best share memes. It is also boomer mindset to constantly be like "these social medias that the kids watch? They are making them weak narcissists and all they know is how to post their butt on the Instagrams" lol
I was talking about me personally lol, I agree though that most people just post pictures.
You see im not a communist, more of a democratic socialist. Under communism there's blatant corruption, but after the orange turd I guess its just mainstream to be corrupt now.