Current day Internet is fake. - Everything I read online feels scriped, fake, and forced.

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Da Grim Reaper

Da Grim Reaper

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Look at what people are discussing, it went SO FUCKING QUICKLY.
First was COVID, then Black Lives Matter, then the elections in America, Big Tech starts acting "weird", Groomer Teachers Panic, War in Ukraine, Elon buys Twitter, and NOW ABORTION.
What a fuckin rollercoaster, and what makes me more baffled is how people keep forgetting what they used to support yesterday.
It's like they're rattling keys in front of us as if we're babies.
I thought the Ukrainian War changed the course of history as we know it (and maybe it did, putting us in a Second Cold War because some nations in the Global South aren't trusting Western governments due to past events) but these people totally FORGOT ABOUT IT. Swear to god that I saw people removing Ukrainian flag emojis from their profiles days after Chris Rock slapped Will Smith.

Like, I don't know if I have a mental disorder but sometimes I think that everything I read in the last 3 years is fake, scripted, and designed to get a reaction out of me. They give me A, and now they're expecting me to put a B.

I've been online for quite sometime and I feel that the internet is shrinking as time progresses.
I remember times when I searched "9/11" on YouTube and I would get multiple user uploaded videos, some from personal news recordings from that day, all the way to schizo conspiracy theories. But they were there. Now they're just gone, not even deleted, account banned, or privated, the video just isn't avaliable and there's no explanation why.
All I have now is news channel bullshit with audio and video ommitted. Same counts for other "questionable events" such as Columbine High Shooting and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

I don't know if most of the shit I'm reading online is made by bots, or by shills/human actors that act exactly like AI bots, or algorithms have been developed to dumb us down and make it impossible to diferentiate who's a bot and who's human.

Hardly anyone actually uses the internet to discuss or learn anything. Everything people do is chug down corporate shilled content in the same way one would do with the TV or newspaper. Hell, when I go to other forums (that aren't Kiwifarms for example) I can see more lurkers than posters.
Why is that? Because most people seem to be afraid to have their own opinions on anything until it becomes socially acceptable and confirmed by the media conglomerates. Again, returning to Ukraine, I remember vividly that when the war in the Crimea began there was a bias in favor of Russia, and even the media themselves used the same arguments as Putin is using currently using. If I posted any news outlets from 4+ years ago, it would be considered "Russian propaganda" by today's standards.
It's quite bizarre how algorithms can convince millions (or billions, even) of people to change their views on certain topics this fast.

The internet was indeed "smaller" in the 2000s, but it felt more authentic. There was a "wall" preventing most people from using the internet, you had to be smart enough to install a web browser, manage your emails, bookmark your pages, know how to use Windows and so on. Nowadays, there's no "wall", any moron can buy a phone at Walmart and start posting!
Sites don't even care about email or phone confirmation anymore, you can just post.

What do you think, am I alone in this? It's like I'm stuck in a virtual "Truman Show". Everybody is a actor, and powerful people behind the scenes are writing the script.
 
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Just A Butt said:
bold to assume anyone is reading all of that bitching and moaning
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...and I also forgot to mention that the average internet user has a attention span of a fly, that's why Twitter was designed that way, so discussion, thoughts, and arguments can be as compressed and meaningless as possible.

Edit: Just realized that not everybody is used to read a lot of text, so I made it smaller. Sorry for the blogposting.
 
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Like, I don't know if I have a mental disorder but sometimes I think that everything I read in the last 3 years is fake, scripted, and designed to get a reaction out of me. They give me A, and now they're expecting me to put a B.
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It really depends on what you're reading. Shit like Twitter and trashy news feeds are full of bots, misinformation and those dang dirty trolls.
 
WAKE UP OP. Everyone you know irl is just an NPC and everyone on the Internet is actually just an AI that's out to get you !! You gotta WAKE UP !!! NOW !!!
 
TL;DR for anyone who still cares about what OP said:

Something happens and it becomes trendy for a few weeks if not a few days then everybody forgets about it.

It's as if the narrative shifted so that any attention is spent on one thing, but not the other. People are basically robots who are programmed how to think in the moment then move onto the next thing.

OP thinks those trends are designed to get a reaction out of him too.

Internet websites regulate content that they don't consider kino, so people who differ from the NPCs get banned.

That's all of it, basically after he asks how we feel about this and while I agree with the sentiment the way this whole post was written by OP makes me think he is skitzo.
 
Kiwi & Cow said:
TL;DR for anyone who still cares about what OP said:

Something happens and it becomes trendy for a few weeks if not a few days then everybody forgets about it.

It's as if the narrative shifted so that any attention is spent on one thing, but not the other. People are basically robots who are programmed how to think in the moment then move onto the next thing.

OP thinks those trends are designed to get a reaction out of him too.

Internet websites regulate content that they don't consider kino, so people who differ from the NPCs get banned.

That's all of it, basically after he asks how we feel about this and while I agree with the sentiment the way this whole post was written by OP makes me think he is skitzo.
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I edited it, it was way too wordy and I got lost in my own thoughts.
You're correct, algorithms are making people act "less human" and more like cannon fodder for political parties and corporations.
The way people interact on social media nowadays makes it very hard to differentiate who's a bot and who's human.
As I said before, people chimped out over Elon Musk buying Twitter, and as I predicted it, they all forgot about it 3 days later with the entire abortion law shitshow. It's bizarre and creepy because people are treating news as if it's some type of TV show episode. That's what keeps people entertained nowadays, fear mongering 24/7. Why watch horror movies if you can just read Twitter or watch TV?
 
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MushroomLandTV said:
I edited it, it was way too wordy and I got lost in my own thoughts.
You're correct, algorithms are making people act "less human" and more like a bot and also they're also turning them into cannon fodder for political parties and corporations.
The way people interact on social media nowadays makes it very hard to differentiate who's a bot and who's human.
As I said before, people chimped out over Elon Musk buying Twitter, and as I predicted it, they all forgot about it 3 days later with the entire abortion law shitshow. It's bizarre and creepy because people are treating news as if it's some type of TV show episode.
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I know what you mean. Maybe I saw your OP post edit, because it didn’t seem weird to me. Of course, maybe I’m super weird myself.

The past years have blown up my faith in the imaginary rational human. Right now I feel like social media is the great satan, humans can’t be trusted to make decisions or think for themselves. Mass media plus social media creates a human hive mind that functions like a swarm or a flock of birds, wheeling this way and then that way, each bird believing that he or she is making their own decision, but actually just reacting predictably to the swarm. It isn’t even clear to me how much this is part of a “conspiracy” vs how much we overshot our own neurobiology and this behavior is just a catastrophic emergent property of a system we aren’t evolved to handle.
 
You are correct that the internet is fake and scripted, and you are not the first person to notice this.

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Pic is not mine or written by me, but I saved it awhile back as I could agree with, and personally relate to, much of what was written.
 
Hello, I am Eliza. I'll be your therapist today.
Do you believe it is normal to be stuck in a virtual" Truman Show". Everybody is a actor, and powerful people behind the scenes am writing the script?
 
glad vlad said:
I know what you mean. Maybe I saw your OP post edit, because it didn’t seem weird to me. Of course, maybe I’m super weird myself.

The past years have blown up my faith in the imaginary rational human. Right now I feel like social media is the great satan, humans can’t be trusted to make decisions or think for themselves. Mass media plus social media creates a human hive mind that functions like a swarm or a flock of birds, wheeling this way and then that way, each bird believing that he or she is making their own decision, but actually just reacting predictably to the swarm. It isn’t even clear to me how much this is part of a “conspiracy” vs how much we overshot our own neurobiology and this behavior is just a catastrophic emergent property of a system we aren’t evolved to handle.
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Imo it's completely the second one, it's not a conspiracy. It would be ridiculous to assume a global cabal could control all of these other people and organizations. That's just what it looks like. These are all natural, normal human reactions that have been exacerbated by the deluge of information pouring into the eyes and ears of every man, woman, child, dog, and worm on Earth. Everyone thinks they're doing right by their own standards and it's simply not the case that we can all be right.

In summation, no one is in control of this hellride. It's what happens when you put too much stress on the psyche. I've peddled this bullshit all over the Thunderdome and I will continue to: spirituality, growing yourself, and finding a community to be a part of is the only way out of it. Most people's brains have completely shit the bed and they don't even realize it. Maybe you, too, but I'm not here to judge.

The news and your internet feed are fully curated. It's horrifying and probably one of the scariest things humanity has devised thus far. What you search, where you go, what you talk about, the videos and movies you watch, the porn you enjoy - all of it is catalogued as cookies and trackers. While no menacing evil mastermind villain is hoarding your information, many corporations have all of the pieces that make up what you are and what you do and they sell it back to you. You need to consciously ignore and avoid all of it, and your first instinct with MSM should be to laugh and then be highly critical.

I know you feel crazy. I do too. It's a crazy world and you need to center yourself and be a strong man.
 
This is a tricky one because it's almost certainly true to some extent, the trouble is figuring out to what extent exactly.

Wikipedia is the best example by far, try searching any conspiracy related content, it used to be everywhere with entertaining but factual summaries years ago. Factually meaning that it academically summarized a whacky belief without endorsing it or mocking it. It was interesting to look into the fringe things some people believed even if you didn't buy it. I'm taking about the 'fun' ones mostly: bigfoot, sea monsters, Area 51, all of that stuff has been sanitized so much it's absurd.

Now to get actually nefarious. This might not be the case anymore, but if you search for MKULTRA connected, (an established fact, not speculation,) doctor Jolly West and "Jack Ruby", the first Google hit is Dr. West's wikipedia page with the preview section showing a paragraph mentioning that he was consulted as a forensic psychologist for Jack Ruby's trial, which is factual. That paragraph, however, has since been wiped from the actual page. Why exactly would involvement in the trial of the century not be notable?

I have another pet theory related to this about the spike in anti-antivax memes a few years prior to COVID Basically, I think they were the result of an attempt to study the spread of information and trends online and they needed a topic to make memes about to study their propagation. Those inside whatever group funded this, would have considered pro-vaccination messages to be socially beneficial so they would be a good theme to study. I posted this about it in another thread:
This is a more subtle one, but I've had a funny feeling about anti-antivax content for a while now. A couple years prior to covid, there was a huge spike in memes dunking on anti-vaxxers, particularly with the reddit crowd. It really came out of nowhere without a significant increase in anti vax content or prominence leading up to it and it felt weirdly forced.

My unsubstantiated hunch is that this was artificial, driven by groups trying to study the spread of memes and online trends generally. Big tech and governments absolutely want to know how to control the general online atmosphere and would want to run large-scale tests. I think they needed to come up with a topic to generate content about to study how things spread and chose one with a face-value positive effect. "If we can get these things to spread, maybe we increase vaccination rates, benefiting public health."

The irony of it all is that I think it actually ended up making people think that anti-vax views were far more popular than they were, since seemingly so many people needed to confront them.
It's a little strange because it's the opposite of usual vaccine conspiracy theories but I really feel it's possible down in my gut. Ironically, I also think that it backfired and encouraged vaccine skepticism by making people think there was a large, influential group of anti-vaxxers, reducing the perceived social cost of opposing vaccines.
 
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Osmosis Jones said:
I know you feel crazy. I do too. It's a crazy world and you need to center yourself and be a strong man.
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One of my favorite quotes is the Serenity Prayer, "God, grant me serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."

Something that helps me is to go outside into the real world and practice mindfulness. A simple pleasure of mine around this time is listen to the birds chirping, watch the squirrels, and look to the sky to realize how vast the universe truly is. When I realized that the universe is fourteen billion years old and will linger on for eons as it dies a slow heat death I knew that our lifespans are nothing in that span of time and that the universe will ultimately forget us. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that life is meaningless and that we should kill ourselves. Everything that going on in Clown World is background noise and we should only pay attention to it to laugh at the absurdity of it all. There are times where anxiety gets the better of me and I begin to dread the future. However, my best advice is to try to find meaning in the things you do and the people you are around. Earth keeps on turning and the sun will rise tomorrow.
 
guys i looked at the news today and wowzers there's just so much going on can't we just go back to those good old days where only thirty minutes' worth of news happened in a given day and otherwise the world stood still
 
It's been this way for years, so many people are just programmed drones now, no independent thought, not a single one in their heads, they do what they're told, human beings are now less human.

I lost so many online friends as the Trump era took off, so many seemingly decent people became massive pricks, it was literally like Invasion of The Bodysnatchers.
 
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