Anon mourns the smarts.
Posted by Meat-Stick-Murderer@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 33 comments
Posted by Meat-Stick-Murderer@reddit | greentext | View on Reddit | 33 comments
ChoiceFudge3662@reddit
Last anon is right, once they started studying the human brain to figure out how best to advertise to us, it was all downhill for any media from there.
Consistent-Throat130@reddit
Yup, bury marketers under the prisons
Arstanishe@reddit
i dunno, it feels like a battle between sword and shield? the more they push ads, the more we use ad blockers?
It became so bad that i don't really care what ad says, i just skip it as useless
ChoiceFudge3662@reddit
It’s not just ads, there’s a reason Facebook, instagram, and YouTube all made their own shorts page.
Arstanishe@reddit
Shorts are poison. I just hate the format altogether. YouTube shorts are stupid, tiktok is even stupider. But fb is even worse. it's a sad place stock full of ads, ai shrimp jesuses and fakes
stillmahboi@reddit
People still use Facebook?
Fatassgecko@reddit
They have good market place tho.
Arstanishe@reddit
yeah) I've visited the site last xmas, some of my old friends were still there. but only some
Fun_Pound5629@reddit
The sword won hard. You aren't not seeing ads. And even when you're not directly being sold shit, fear mongering and other societal manipulation is all designed to make you a good little consumer
butteryasstreflip@reddit
Vast majority of people don’t use ad blockers
Justin_Case619@reddit
Dopamine the real deal
TraumaPerformer@reddit
As it turns out, 100% of humanity will choose instant dopamine over learning every single time.
SpooderJockey@reddit
It pains me to think of all the time I’ve wasted on the short videos that you scroll through, and I try to limit it as much a possible. By a large portion of people in my generation will just sit on it all day and waste so much time. It makes driving scary and dating horrible
TraumaPerformer@reddit
Yup, gaming has always been my vice, from as early as age 3. It’s so habitual at this point that any time I’m unoccupied the Xbox goes on.
Sometimes, while I’m two hours deep into a game I’ve already played a billion times, I think to myself how I could’ve been reading one of the many books sitting on my shelf, learning something new. But by then I’m enjoying myself too much/too comfortable to stop.
AbsolutelyFreee@reddit
Oh the humanity!
undreamedgore@reddit
Books are hard to get into.
TraumaPerformer@reddit
The trick is to only read the first page. What you’ll probably by the time you’re 10 pages in is that it wasn’t as drole as you first expected, and you’ll want to keep reading.
lipehd1@reddit
I share your burden. I limit myself as much as possible from doomscrolling, but still, dating is terrible, because despite being able to have easy nights out, it seems fucking impossible to find someone who've read a book or know a tv show or have any fucking hobby for the matter. It seems that nowdays people don't have interests that take any time
stillmahboi@reddit
How do I get instant dopamine?
I want to doomscroll but 99% of shorts just aren't interesting or funny?
I'm a neet ever since I got fired but there's not enough good content for me.
TraumaPerformer@reddit
You get it from doomscrolling, getting comment notifications, playing games, etc. It really is the equivalent of pressing a button to instantly feel good.
The brain, however, grows numb to the same stimulation, at which point you either find a new stimulant, or up the intensity of the current choice. Alternatively, you stop chasing dopamine for a while by replacing this habit with something healthy and time-consuming (exercise, for example), and after a while doomscrolling will feel euphoric again.
stillmahboi@reddit
I just never got doomscrolling.
Like the shits not funny.
NotRandomseer@reddit
It can make you as smart as you want , unfortunately the amount people want isn't very high.
If there's anything you want to learn all you need is effort and you can learn how to gain that skill or knowledge for free on the internet.
People are forgetting that knowledge used to be inaccessible, so even if you had the drive , you could not learn that same skill without more barriers in the past. Sure you could get a book from the library on the topic , but if you want to learn something niche there wouldn't be many free comprehensive sources available to you
Fatassgecko@reddit
But we now have information being censored and manipulated,fake global news.
About a decade back, i tried searching for life saving information for someone around me. Google censored it.
It's accessible but it seems the barrier of having the freedom to choose unbiased information is getting higher.
Now we have a huge population using ai without fact check or source provided.
redditsucks101010101@reddit
>young people are way smarter
>young people most likely to cut their dick off
yeah ok you're just normies with propaganda
ZachF8119@reddit
No restrictions on who puts what there.
Used to be only nerds so everything was truth, forums, or nerd lore like mew under the truck.
Raleth@reddit
Social media happened, unironically. The internet was better before every single person in the world had a platform and every media outlet had a means of getting every bit of news to every single person in the entire world. At least here on Reddit, most people still go by stupid usernames with little-to-no attachment to their real identities (barring anyone seeking that attention). Going to places like Xitter, TikTok, Instagram, or even YouTube or Twitch or whatever else, people love putting themselves in the spotlight for hundreds of thousands of millions to see. Truthfully, I think the people who manage to have an identity and presence online that is effectively disconnected from their real life are the smartest. Like streamers or content creators who adopt a persona or at least opt out of having things like a face cam or whatever. I feel like you can still exist in this space and go about it intelligently. I just think too many people are enticed by the notion of getting attention and being heard, especially people who don't experience this kind of thing in real life and who really want it.
gamingvortex01@reddit
My two cents are...influencer culture destroyed it
lonevolff@reddit
Which are only possible because of corpo ads
shoko664@reddit
I don't know I feel like if you genuinely *want* to be smart and study things out of your reach the Internet is pretty good tool but if you just want to consume entertainment then yeah it will make you dumber.
OneInternational984@reddit
It makes smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.
DomSchraa@reddit
Theres things that changed, theres thins that didnt
Imo the biggest change is it allowed ppl to "live" without their filter, hence also increasing radicalization, as well as increasing unobtainable beauty standards and the like
Double edged sword
SleepingPodOne@reddit
anon is right we would all be geniuses if not for Big Gay
dirschau@reddit
>Young people are way smarter than boomers
>GenZ voting Trump because some guy on the internet told them it's what a greek letter would do
They have lead in their MrBeast branded juice.