It's been over 10 years since the publication of The Shallows, which discussed some of the problems with internet use.
Since then, social media has given permanent brain damage to a whole generation of people. Twitter today is worse than anything we could have imagined in the 2000s - pure, concentrated outrage porn and clickbait that turns people into angry one-dimensional drones. "YouTubers" who dominate entertainment for young people are the worst possible group of people you'd want to influence a young child.
Has anyone written a modern book about the dangers of social media?
OP here. I realise the pic is biased towards right wing YouTubers.
I'm guessing the left wing version would be something like Contra Points, Chapo Trap House, Red Scare, Destinity... not really familiar with BreadTube.
Daniel Howard
All those channels are breadtubers
Jackson Carter
Yes... That is what he's saying?
Owen Miller
Yea Forums has done more damage than those guys together
Leo Fisher
he said 'not really familiar with Breadtube' at the end
Eli Cruz
The person who made this genuinely thinks JRE is a threat to our democracy and closed their Spotify account over him. I can respect him for causing so much butthurt when all he does is just bring on people and interject with "Mmm hmm" or "Yeah.." every few minutes.
Henry Cook
...yes? What's your point?
Jackson Ross
I was just misunderstanding you I guess
Landon Carter
Yeah the corperate news oligarchy was so much better. The telecommunications act was great. Boomers don't have the attention spans for a postcast because their brains are blown out by fox news and cnn having 15 second sound bites.
Carter Price
Is that Vaush but hairier?
Ryder Hall
>bro did you see those wolves take down that caribou? >dude they eat them ASS first Truly a threat to western society. I miss Ted Turner and Rupurt Muurdoch carrying the military industrial complex's lies so we could start 7 fucking wars. God if only the billionares had MORE power.
You should kill yourself OP.
Charles Lopez
Yea Forums is anonymous at least and allows for free expression of idiotic ideas where no single poster has priority in shitposting
Jacob Wood
>rogan triggered all the swj snowflakes! based! >gets this angry over a picture portraying his surrogate father in a negative light lmao
Austin Edwards
Sjw is blasè. What is this 2016?
Cooper Ward
I've watched like, 5 clips of JRE on YouTube, relax.
Isaac Thompson
Hasan's doing more damage than all these dudes combined
Anthony Brown
Hasan is an industry plant as well. I think only Ben Shapiro could stake that claim with these guys.
Jace Morris
Is he really? He seems to be more of a punching bag for every other streamer in existence.
Owen Peterson
He has subverted young people who should be democratic socialists into just following the corperate democrats talking points. Especially over the intellectual property scandal on the vaccines.
Aaron Morgan
Ecco by Lena Lindgren is the best book on social media ive read
Dumb graph, but they're pretty right about Leafy ngl. Though I have no idea how he could be considered "right wing," when the dude was just a cryptotard shitposter that bullied people.
Joseph Bennett
>the dangers of social media still better than tv
Isaac Sanders
>Yea Forums has done more damage than those guys together seen my first decapitation on Yea Forums, also there was a /r/gore in reddit, pretty fucked up shit going on there
Jaxson Carter
That's just showing people what the real world is like. Most westerners have never even seen a dead person.
Landon Sanchez
bros this isn't even translated into english what's it about?
Henry Butler
I only recognize pew, the jew and the podcast man.
Ian Gonzalez
the title implies modern algorithms are the ultimate weapon at delivering what people really want, and that's why the internet is what it is. there's no rationality, no gatekeeping, it's just what the man desires, man gets
Juan Gutierrez
I know all of them but watch none of them. Stat me /tg/
Holy fuck I hate that autist on the top left so much, he has such a grating voice to me. I wouldn't care if he just stuck to gotcha journalism or whatever but the fact that he's using Babylon as his aesthetic makes me seethe pretty hard. >Want to listen to the Epic of Gilgamesh on a run one morning >Open a vid >It's this twat on a second account with a shitty "Reading" Morning ruined desu
Leafy said Jews were responsible for his downfall on Twitter
William Kelly
The problems of social media mainly revolve around it's use for conformity and exclusion, it's use for predatory gossip, and the problem of shitty user generated content that normies force upon everyone
Xavier Brooks
Who's the kid in the bottom left?
Brayden Baker
Leafy I think
Samuel Nelson
>Amazing atheist, joe rogan, sargon of akkad >Right wing The fuck you talking about?
Lincoln Campbell
leafy, a faggot
Kayden Clark
Yea Forums has actually been a positive impact in my life by bullying me into self improvement and knocking me down every time I say something retarded. Yea Forums in particular has recommended me books that have had a shaped my view in a healthier direction towards life. Sure it’s full of insane broken psychos but the average four chan sperg seems some how more authentically human and genuine than anyone you would find on Reddit or Twitter. The redditor may make an effort to look wholesome 100 chungus but in my experience they are way more psychologically disgusting.
Jack Morales
Kek yeah Sargon is pretty annoying.
Adrian Rodriguez
As bad as these guys are how many people do you think were convinced to cut their cock off by people like contrapoints.
Sounds like an algorithmic twist on Ellul's technique
Jayden Garcia
do urbanites really?
Jonathan Miller
"Right wing" really just means "white guy said something that makes me uncomfortable" or "not enthusiastic enough about trans-rights".
Jose Young
Amazing athiest is fine
Josiah Price
Suffering builds character.
Ryder Baker
I used to go on /fit/ and still work out. Used to know on /fa/ and my wife asks me to coordinate her outfits. Used to go on Yea Forums, avoid music hipsters who don't know any music history or theory but base their personalities around music consumption. Used to go on /ck/, watched all of A Taste of History and don't buy storebought bread or pizza now, know how to smoke meat texas style with lump charcoal. Used to go on /k/, own seven guns. Used to go on /g/, know basic programming and how to run music off a home server. My parents were basically unpleasable so negativity fuels me.
Brody Scott
Not even close.
The absurdity that comes from refreshing an anonymous image board to see if there are any acknowledgements to your post, any applause or laughs, hits pretty hard, and quickly demonstrates the shallowness of internet clout, how it is just a drug addiction
Login forums don't allow for this intellectual space. The constant affirmation, and complete history of posts and likes and so on, creates an almost inescapable cycle of dopamine and adrenalin addiction
That is why the most fucked up people post here 24/7 4lyf, because they are trying to own something intangible, any their failure just fuels their hate which justifies their spiralling descent into excommunication, making it harder for the misanthropes to express themselves without being shoved into the same degenerate swill
Christopher Baker
PewDiePie is the best possible influence on a child/teen.
Brody Watson
Yeah I love PewDiePie
Evan Davis
Is the fact that i have watched all of these at some point why im so autistic?
David Flores
I still don't think that makes someone right wing. Just edgy and a little tarded.
