Current Events > Be honest, we started sucking as a society when Youtube became popular.

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It's been nothing but downhill from there as Youtube glorified idiots doing foolish acts, everyone has a voice and it's killing us.
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There was nothing before youtube that made us suck as people huh?
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The Internet, Myspace, & Facebook.

Nah, I'm pretty sure it was when we started letting barely intelligent nobodies become famous that things started going downhill.
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Social media in general.
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ColeslawIsBad posted...

There was nothing before youtube that made us suck as people huh?

It's a well-known fact that Hitler started out as a vlogger, you know.
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This is what Pewdiepie has done to us.
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I think Youtube is pretty interesting representation of the realities of society.

The design Youtube is that everyone is creating content and sharing memories/perspectives, and whenever you see advertisements or promos for it you're seeing Casey Neistat talking about how YT has inspired a generation of amateur filmmakers, awe-inspiring nature videos, videos for motivating social change, etc.

But when you really get into YouTube and see what is popular besides Despacito and Jimmy Fallon clips, you see the real bottom of the barrel trash that people truly go on YouTube to see.

Making Out With Girls Videos (jerkoff material for preteens), Stepping on black peoples' shoes in the hood pranks, crushing iPhones, Jake Paul vlogs, obese people reviewing fast food in their cars, Shoenice eating broken glass, pimple popping, etc

H3H3 productions does a good job of showing this part of YouTube, where it's people producing garbage and making shitloads of money off of it. I think that's a good snapshot of society, where we all pretend to be elevated people using our technology for education, enlightenment, and social change, but at the end of the day we really want to just watch LA Beast eat light bulbs and jars of mayo.
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I honestly believe that social media had a major impact.
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Eh, I watch plenty of high brow youtubers.
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Actually, society is good
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We started sucking as a society when society became society.

Romulox28 posted...

I think Youtube is pretty interesting representation of the realities of society.

The design Youtube is that everyone is creating content and sharing memories/perspectives, and whenever you see advertisements or promos for it you're seeing Casey Neistat talking about how YT has inspired a generation of amateur filmmakers, awe-inspiring nature videos, videos for motivating social change, etc.

But when you really get into YouTube and see what is popular besides Despacito and Jimmy Fallon clips, you see the real bottom of the barrel trash that people truly go on YouTube to see.

Making Out With Girls Videos (jerkoff material for preteens), Stepping on black peoples' shoes in the hood pranks, crushing iPhones, Jake Paul vlogs, obese people reviewing fast food in their cars, Shoenice eating broken glass, pimple popping, etc

H3H3 productions does a good job of showing this part of YouTube, where it's people producing garbage and making shitloads of money off of it. I think that's a good snapshot of society, where we all pretend to be elevated people using our technology for education, enlightenment, and social change, but at the end of the day we really want to just watch LA Beast eat light bulbs and jars of mayo.

You summed up YouTube nicely. I'd add it got really bad with Facebook,Instagram, and twitter too. Bullying, shaming, fake news, harassment, and narcissism became a big issue after that. Sure we had chat rooms back then, but most people in the general area only communicated in person or on the phone.
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Hard times create strong people
Strong people creates good times
Good times create weak people
Weak people create hard times
*repeat for infinity*

So basically, this world, this time, these people are nothing but trash? So in the end, that's all that we are, just worthless trash bringing down everything and everyone. That meteor is sounding so much more appealing by the day now.
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Nah, just you
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Romulox28 posted...

(jerkoff material for preteens)

Why bother, when no porn tubesite has anything resembling age verification?

tremain07 posted...

meteor

No.

I would rather go back in time and show DARPA that their DARPANet project made Pandora's Box look like a plastic bag holding a stale sandwich.
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SSBBSB posted...

tremain07 posted...

meteor

No.

I would rather go back in time and show DARPA that their DARPANet project made Pandora's Box look like a plastic bag holding a stale sandwich.

All that would accomplish is the "WWW Explosion" happening in 1973 instead.

Questionmarktarius posted...

All that would accomplish is the "WWW Explosion" happening in 1973 instead.

...Huh.

Hm.

Then, I'll just go back in time and eat DARPA.
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SSBBSB posted...

Questionmarktarius posted...

All that would accomplish is the "WWW Explosion" happening in 1973 instead.

...Huh.

Hm.

Then, I'll just go back in time and eat DARPA.

Then, Al Gore really would have invented the internet.

TC said "be honest," that means their stupid and blatantly false statement must be true.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Then, Al Gore really would have invented the internet.

Then I'd go back in time and eat Washington D.C.
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Stop eating things! Oh my god.
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tremain07 posted...

Stop eating things! Oh my god.

I'm Galactus.
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You're a louse!
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