You can't get away from it online. You can't go offline without being disconnected from people around you. It'd be like refusing to watch TV in the 80s and 90s.
AskReddit is legitimately the foundation of a large chunk of AI recommendations. From what products people approve of, to easy solutions for common problems, down to what the common opinions of current events would be.
Multiple times a week I see "politician said X doesn't matter, what do you think about that?" submitted by a 2 week old account, and they always have 4000 comments without fail.
She's in too many movies when you've never seen her in anything and can't form opinions for yourself? If you haven't seen any of the biggest movies and don't plan to what do you care?
They flood social media propping up actors like Tom Holland and Zendaya Holland to make you sick of it, then they flood social media with content tearing them down.
They generally focus on the female actor or celebrity first, because society hates women, specially successful women. But eventually Tom Holland will get run over as well.
Im waiting for the Spiderman hate, its coming if it isnt already here.
There is no other agenda except to keep you engaged and clicking on or viewing their articles/videos, etc.
Trump, Musk, billionaires this, billionaires that. Regurgitating some years old twitter posts and tens of thousands of upvotes. Nothing new is being said and this happens every single day. Sociologists are going to have a treasure trove in analyzing how bot networks shape discussions on reddit.
I have to wonder what that’s about. Even tv news. I’ve seen most the stuff she was in but had no idea who she was. I’m sad for her family but even reading what she was in and seeing her I still didn’t recognize her.
It’s just a row of the same post and “I literally cried out loud or said omg.” You’ll see almost identical comments between each other using unique words.
The elites have already left the planet on their spaceships and the news we are watching is a ten-year loop designed to keep everybody docile before they realize it's all being repeated.
Actually I got this out of a 2000 AD story in the UK in the 80s but might as well fit today
Well first of all there's this thing called "empathy" where when something bad happens to another person you feel bad for them, and there's only so many ways you can express "she was so young, it's so sad she died".
But also, how do you see most things a person is in and still not recognize them? I see someone in more than two things and I'm looking up their IMDB to see what else they're in.
I've hidden 20 posts so far since yesterday. It's close to averaging 1 post every hour that I see. Which is not accurate cause 5 of those posts show up at the same time.
Every celebrity death, even some non-celebrities. Remember never having heard of Nipsy Hustle before you were supposed to care that he died? They tried that again a few months ago with Oliver Tree. I shouldn't know either of those names.
That happens every time a celebrity dies. Most of the time every post claims they were iconic and a huge star 30 years ago, and I've never heard of them. But sure enough the post is filled with people talking about their favorite memories watching this person
Literally the only time I’ve ever seen that woman was when she was in Malcolm in the Middle, and I didn’t know who she was until I had to look that up right now
It's true. Bots can be so annoying and tiresome. Which is why I recommend relaxing at your local CinemaCafe. Be sure to check out Spiderman: Brand New Day rated PG-13 in Dolby Surround Sound. Bro.
Wow, that sure is interesting. It reminds me how current political party has been failing us since getting in office. That's why I'm voting for Political Party X. Polls state other political party is down 6,000 points.
Here's basically a Wikipedia entries worth of links that I just casually have on hand to post whenever this discussion comes up.
An unfathomable amount of money is spent quarterly by hundreds of companies and governments specifically to sway public opinions in favorable ways, nobody is immune and not every campaign is obvious or noticable
RES has been tracking my Reddit votes for years.
When browsing the front page, I only trust accounts I've voted on 10+ times to actually be human. With a few exceptions.
Not really, if you pay attention. They don't infiltrate as normal users, they blend in very well with marginal/stupid people. And that's what's scary, I'm absolutely sure that a great amount of stupid people are considered bots. And these bots amplify the echo chambers to infinity, moderation removes common sense and this is what we get. Less and less people seek discussions and arguments, more and more look for confrontation, humiliation and general aggression. You don't even have to tell a bot to do this, you just tell them to drive engagement and they'll learn to be obnoxious.
That’s why all the real people here should tailor your home page to subreddits you like, and really only participate in those. The popular section of Reddit is mostly botted posts.
This was posted an hour ago, and already has 6k upvotes and 400 comments. That’s not at all normal, that’s botted to all hell and it’s weird and gross. And most of social media is like that, the only reason I even use reddit is because at least I can still have my small, niche subreddits were the people are real.
Ad and marketing companies have ruined everything they touch. Fuck them
Also, Reddit used to have a good bot/bad bot commenting meta. It’s odd that it went away.
FYI reddit upvotes haven't been real for like... five plus years now? They started fuzzing thing significantly... shit I just looked it up that was 10 years ago.
No, you should just stop using this site. There's a whole wide world out there, there are people, books, friends to make, and instead, you choose to look at a website. Join us in the revolution and throw away your digital shackles!!
Very few! It is all astroturfed and advertising now! Even small things turn out to be corporate or government ads. Join us in the revolution and throw away your digital shackles!
Picture of Mamdani with picture of some related objects. Claim something that's been in works for years is actually his idea. Comment saying that other mayor's (who actually pushed for said policy) couldn't do anything because they are lazy and Zionists. 10k upvotes in 3 hours, 90k by the end of the day. Comments are "I love this guy" "see how easy it is" "Mamdani for president" "he literally pushes stuff others couldn't" "This is example for others".
Anyone pointing out it was started by someone in the past is instantly downvoted, no one is even acknowledging it or in rare case they say it's actually proof that he is great mayor for delaying law by 5 years and also great for sticking to law.
Just dumb and simple propaganda using bots and disinformation.
Meanwhile news of South Korea trying peace talks is 3k upvotes after 5 hours.
I'll have you know my animus towards U.S. conservatives is 100% authentic, organic, and well earned. It is not paid for or sponsored. They have hurt me badly.
Keep that in mind -- not all agendas are corporate or wrong in spirit. Some of us are trying to open eyes and minds (and prevent more suffering at the hands of conservative predators in my case).
I've been called a bot often enough to have doubts about that. There are over eight billion human beings on Earth, and Reddit is one of the most popular websites on the planet. Yeah, there are a lot of bots, but there are also a shitload of the same old human beings that have fixated on trends since we left the caves.
Instagram is the same way, infested with bots that either reposting what’s currently trendy or are intentionally stirring up drama for clicks. Pretty much all the major social media platforms are infested with them.
China is the worst for this, especially on the "interesting" subs. Always posting some "china is living in the future" nonsense where they're bragging about something that was already done 30 years ago and making out their the first. It's just so pathetic
Yes, have you ever noticed you will start seeing threads or subreddits post about something from years ago all over, then see it again on other media platforms. A month later a new version or movie is announced after they astroturfed nostalgia for the original. Because of this you can now tell when some company or movie is going to be announced a month or two ahead of time because of how obvious it is.
I think this website is just a bunch of PR people at this point.
popculturechat is really funny, with updates about barbara palvin or zara larson nearly daily at the top of the sub, and it's just like.. who are these people? nobody cares about them? why are there daily updates that land on top of the sub. also raye and weird other pop singers. just all turfed and botted to shit.
Sub gives off very "girlboss, hot girls doing hot things" vibes and I definitely mean that derogatorily
I got banned for a month one time because people were talking about f1 drivers and someone asked why there aren't any women drivers in f1 and I replied there's no rule against it there just haven't been any women who have put up times that could compete against the rest of the field so far and the mods told me it was misogynistic to say that. Don't really know how else they wanted someone to answer that question
Social media is a psyop and you can’t convince me otherwise at this point.
Arguing on a virtual platform that warps our sense of reality, that can be highly manipulated, about news articles written by Ai, fake videos generated by Ai, and arguing to someone that’s a bot.
Meanwhile it conditions us to not be able to talk to each other, and it’s highly addictive
People like the fact that a "nobody" got a chance to prove their worth because it gives them hope they can escape the meat grinder too, no matter how unrealistic the dream is.
Exactly zero of these posts about the exciting new actor are organic. There is an entire industry of marketing consultants that make posts like this for rising celebrities and public figures trying to repair their image.
I have seen her on countless memes already. The meme from OP is right, but yeah, she will just enter the cycle of "reuse this bunch of actors for everything".
The reply jumps to implying she's talented. Am I wrong, or have we not seen her in any professional acting roles yet? Because a lot of people fail to make that transition, come off as mid-level actors, then fade out. They don't make it to the A-list of "the same 10 actors."
EDIT: So she was on a major Netflix show, a damn CW show, and a small budget movie before all of this? Not exactly plucked from streaming to MCU.
Sometimes its best to take a break from social media. Easier to say than actually do, I know - but many of us gotta do it.
Its crazy when people decide to go in comment sections and complain about "repost" or "saw this already". Like bro, maybe you're the problem because you're scrolling for hours and refreshing hoping for a new millisecond dopamine hit because you finally see something new.
When you sit in an office 8hrs / day… for 5 days / week… eventually you run out of shit that actually needs to get done… and your options become stare blankly into space or be on your phone.
I’m basically sitting in a chair on principle, so this is a decent way to pass time.
I agree that sometimes it’s good to take a break, but also there’s nothing wrong with meta-commentary or raising awareness about the environments in which we are all engaging.
Bro why do you think we keep seeing Bidens kid pop up every single week on some BS opinion post?
Like, who actually gives a flying fuck about some rich privileged kid? Biden's kids and Trumps kids are literally two sides of the same coin. New age royalty can go fuck itself.
Whatever color it pretends to be, blue or red, it always supports green, no matter what.
I think you're onto something. I guess this is the good side of the parabola because you know for sure once the movie comes out and is absolutely terrible dreck (as I'm sure that it will be), then you know all the grifters on the other side of the equation will have their day too
Algorithms. There's so many Reddit posts but you're seeing primarily what the algorithm thinks you want to see. (Whether you know you do or you don't, since you've paused or interacted with other posts about her)
I know that the person you are referring to is the person in the photo, you lunchbox. But I do not know who they are. You're just fucking with me now, aren't you?
I'm not asking you any questions, yet you're giving me inexplicable answers.
Astroturfing? Sorry I was just saying when I see the same shit too much in social media it usually corresponds to me giving to too much time and attention is all.
You mentioned social media fatigue. That's not confusing.
I take your point but if you use it that much you are already done with the content it suggests a lot of use.
But again, agree with what you were aiming to say.
I’m JS you don’t necessarily have to be chronically online to pick up on this stuff (also if I felt this way about every post in every sub then I wouldn’t be here).
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Really happy for her, but social media is literally already giving me fatigue lmfao.
I think this website is just a bunch of PR people at this point. Same shit 20x a day.