Ever go to Starbucks and have the person in front of you show the cashier a tiktok of some crazy drink they want? That is a societal low…just order a fracking dragonfruit whatever and be done with it.
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This is interesting. I do have a question. If algorithms are watching you on YouTube, wouldn’t they be smart enough to do the same on the rest of the web? I could imagine bots trolling the the rest of the internet to do the same.
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every time someone visits a website and clicks “allow” without optimizing for cookies, you open a door, and when you close it, still a window into your phone/computer/browser is left open. web crawlers aren’t the only bots logging site traffic on the internet.
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They know everything you’ve ever done, all your dirty secrets, that bag of M&M’s you have hidden under your pillow, and they also know everything you are ever going to do in the future.
You could try and fight it, tell yourself you are protected with vpn’s and other useless software scrubbers, but it’s all a failing illusion. The computer AI overlords took control of us all years ago. You are a sheeple eating digital grass. Fatten up and obey.
Also, I found a whole genre of reactors reacting to reaction videos. The cycle is complete.
Even worse, the person behind them recording their conversation.
So they know what drink to order?
If I ever see this - and I’m sure I will when I move next year - my soul will leave my body.
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A little aside: I spent the last weekend having a Ted Lasso marathon, and now whenever I read your posts it’s automatically in Roy Kent’s voice…
(my fave character on the show btw)
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No idea who these pricks are
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“Reaction streamers” just out and leaving the room and taking long shits / doing coke or whatever while making millions.
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while the actual information on fair use is informative and educational, the more informed I am about things and people I don’t care about the dumber I feel.
in truth, I’ve never heard of any of these people.
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On one hand, the individuals are more used as exemplary, various successes that are representative of the extremes of whatever trend.
On the other, the problem with keeping up with tendrils of culture is that so much of it is novel and only more exploitative, nonsense “content”-driven and consumption-driven (less creation encouraged.) It’s time best spent on literally anything else.
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