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(edited from an article on argo nuff)
What We Often See As The Most Cringe Content Displays Someone Leaning Way Too Far Into Either End Of Sincerity/Irony, And As Soon As You Start Paying Attention The Shit Is Everywhere; Edgelords Doing "Dark Humor" In Instagram Reels Comment Sections, Infographics About Which Grocery Store Brands Are Actually Zionist And What Gofundme's To Donate To Fight This, 3 Hour Video Essays About Socialist Themes In JRPGS And Those Who React To It By Sitting In Gamer Chair And Going "Woah, Chat" Every 5 Minutes. Both Shitposts And Calls To Action By Nature Get Equal Amount Of Space In The Attention Economy Of The Internet, Meaning Everything On The Internet Is Equally Important As It Is Worthless. And For A Lot Of Screen Dwellers That Dynamic Is Literally All They Know And It Fuuuuuuuucks You Up, Big Time.
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Meta-irony is the fantastical pallet in which I choose to paint my world.
I find myself following confusing paths to strange allusions.
Sentences that switch back on themselves and examine the writer for meaning,
And truly burn them during a burial at sea to sink beneath waves of witticisms and filler words
Like, itās, okay, um, well, god; physical eye rolls careen over bodies of the learnedĀ
And silence is resented.Ā
Seek visual silence and youre staring into space
I seek the stimulation of little scrolling stories and their sixty second arcs
The recaps of art I will only ever see from this side of the fenceĀ Ā
Obscured by toggles and buttons. UX and UI blurring my experience and sharpening my understanding
Trapped in a cage of something elseās design, in someone elseās device
What I hold is not my own. It is not of me, it has grown attached to me.
A leech I love so dearly we share skin. A parasite I make space for.
My mind has holes where morals should be. Blasted out by years of prank videos
Of multi-channel networks, family vlogging channels, relationship advice gurus, discord moderators
I am the seed sown by excitement for lazer collections, gmod idiot box, and home made stop motion lego Star Wars parody music videos
Perverted in bad faith at the hands of a digital monster let loose by its creatorĀ
To put the potential for profitability through exploitation in the hands of the proletariat too occupied by dreams of influence to see how they are being led to the altar by the collar.
Asked to sacrifice time or spirit or soul to be left hollowed out by the house before it inevitably wins
The will is no match for the cold, mechanical force of algorithms whose nature is dictated by watch times
One sided engagement over engaged interaction
I watched too much YouTube as a kid and now I know everythingĀ
Dec 29, 2024
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everything is politics. from vaccines to lgbt matters, politicians have leveraged the things conservative americans donāt understand to stoke fear and confusion.
this isnāt anything new. what is new is the algorithms that reenforce those fears. comment sections weāre told to treat like real conversation just flooded with faceless accounts saying their most vile inside thoughts. itās easy to want to interact and easier to just read it all and be mad. but every second spent engaging is another brain scrambling distraction.
these sensationalized posts and comments do nothing for education, understanding, or empathy. even on the left, slacktivism actively hurts the cause. theres an idea that someone who holds ignorant beliefs is *bad* in all politicized fields. but letās be real, just because uncle jeff is pissed about tuck underwear it doesnāt mean heās a climate change denier. generalizing people is exactly what politicians want from us.
social issues are important and politics arenāt going away from that any time soon. but social media is a slippery slope and i personally refuse to engage. when it bleeds into my real life (āparents just WANT their kids to be transā) i try to engage in conversations that get to the root of the issue. whereās this info coming from, why do you believe that? these are the kind of questions strangers wonāt ask them on the internet.
misinformation is a sickness that weāre all plagued with. to find some truth and understanding we cannot be having these discussions on platforms like facebook or instagram or twitter. if we do, weāre just giving these tech ceos and politicians what they need: engagement and fear
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anyone on pi.fyi will likely feel seen and heard when reading this. it basically accentuates all the redundancies and senseless aspects of social media and how itās disrupted every industry and how we are all dominated by the algorithm and have to be our own hype person. i always feel like an idiot after i finish a record or a book that i'm really excited to share with the world, but then have to think about ācontentā to promote the art itself. obviously pi.fyi feels likes a refreshing beacon of hope because artists can share their work here in a far more simple and wholesome manner. the article also addresses non-creative jobs like accountants and other professions that are all being forced to become an āinfluencerā of some sort or build a brand. itās spooky, yet weāre all feeling the fatigue so hopefully we can see a less algorithmic future soonā¦
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