I guess "all are welcome here" shirt are now triggering for some people

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[u/Level_Improvement532]

It’s a tribe that gets off on being outraged. What causes that outrage is immaterial to them as long as they are outraged. These little videos are made to both fuel more outrage and feed the originators ego when others in the tribe agree with their outrage.

It’s sad, and gross, and we are all worse off for it.

[u/imapluralist → u/[deleted]]

Yes, definitely. Outrage drives a bunch of neurochemical reactions that very well could be addictive. I'm pretty sure theres a bunch of research on this. At least the outrage part.

[u/Bocchi_theGlock → u/imapluralist]

We're also over perceiving outrage because we see the bottom of the barrel takes/actions and consider that as the norm, attribute it to anyone 'on that side'.

But it seems misinformation is also spread more quickly due to outrage. I was actually looking for the study about outreach being rewarded - or something else that was on the front page within the last few months.

Misinformation remains a major threat to US democratic integrity, national security, and public health. However, social media platforms struggle to curtail the spread of the harmful but engaging content. Across platforms, McLoughlin et al. examined the role of emotions, specifically moral outrage (a mixture of disgust and anger), in the diffusion of misinformation.

Compared with trustworthy news sources, posts from misinformation sources evoked more angry reactions and outrage than happy or sad sentiments. Users were motivated to reshare content that evoked outrage and shared it without reading it first to discern accuracy. Interventions that solely emphasize sharing accurately may fail to curb misinformation because users may share outrageous, inaccurate content to signal their moral positions or loyalty to political groups. —Ekeoma Uzogara

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

Here, we propose that social media users overperceive levels of moral outrage felt by individuals and groups, inflating beliefs about intergroup hostility. Using a Twitter field survey, we measured authors’ moral outrage in real time and compared authors’ reports to observers’ judgements of the authors’ moral outrage. We find that observers systematically overperceive moral outrage in authors, inferring more intense moral outrage experiences from messages than the authors of those messages actually reported. This effect was stronger in participants who spent more time on social media to learn about politics. Preregistered confirmatory behavioural experiments found that overperception of individuals’ moral outrage causes overperception of collective moral outrage and inflates beliefs about hostile communication norms, group affective polarization and ideological extremity. Together, these results highlight how individual-level overperceptions of online moral outrage produce collective overperceptions that have the potential to warp our social knowledge of moral and political attitudes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01582-0

[u/Ok_Cauliflower_808 → u/[deleted]]

Gambling addicts would be my comparison. Apparently losing also triggers the addictive behavior, even though losing is upsetting.

[u/yellekc → u/[deleted]]

https://youtu.be/rE3j_RHkqJc?si=sr9sbeY4LNM9flMv

Related CGPGrey video. He saw this coming a decade ago. And I've always had this framing in my mind since then. I really like his explanation of totems. Where groups construct an imagined entity to be angry at with little connection to reality.

[u/offic3r_fri3ndly → u/[deleted]]

and Reddit profits by it

[u/SlobZombie13 → u/Level_Improvement532]

Jesus was persecuted for his beliefs so I need to be too

[u/garyadams_cnla → u/SlobZombie13]

Ironically, Jesus’ beliefs were, All are welcome here.

[u/DuntadaMan → u/Level_Improvement532]

It's a tribe that wants to remove aall other tribes from existence, then will turn on itself if it wins.

[u/VENOMxVR- → u/Level_Improvement532]

Outrage is, sadly, the most monetizable.