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| ▲ | bee_rider 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Attention economy websites cause otherwise normal people to start acting like reality TV show characters or politicians. |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | And due to survivorship bias, they make it look like you have to act like that in order to "win", but since it's a numbers game you end up with millions of would-be influencers doing the influencer routines and getting the influencer personality, which is... pretty insufferable in real life. But they're different worlds entirely. | |
| ▲ | bowsamic 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Indeed. Really there’s no good option. Either you get screwed over by the attention economy and your family members become conspiracy theorists, or you give up and become a furry or something |
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| ▲ | Cthulhu_ 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Just because you don't see it, doesn't mean it doesn't exist; the more different people get downvoted or feel unwelcome in the mainstream spaces, but that doesn't mean they're not there. |
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| ▲ | bowsamic 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Sure but the fact they're downvoted and outnumbered means I can avoid them |
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