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Documentaries that change the way you think

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BreAKerTV
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
Taiwan1658 Posts
April 14 2024 17:50 GMT
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As a guy who was big on social media for a long time, a washed-up twitch partner, and as an at-best, part time employee of the esports industry, there seems to be a link that cannot be separated between "getting big numbers" on social media that lead to dopamine hits, and then suddenly seeing those numbers going down and going through a bout of depression for a while.

"Nothing is inherently good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - William Shakespeare

Below is a personal anecdote that is unessential to this blog, and it's marked in spoilers to save you some reading time, as it bears little relevance to the topic at hand - documentaries that shift the way you think.

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The first time you get a bunch of viewers while livestreaming to twtich, or uploading a video to youtube, or making tiktoks or youtube shorts, you'll suddenly get this -in some cases euphoric- rush to your brain, making you think that perhaps you are on to something big or something that could lead to a full time career in social media. Well, if you keep going and you don't get viewers, would you still feel that way?.

I've experienced this on...
Twitch. - circa 2012 - 2014. My first big dopamine rushes would come from casting SC2 tournaments from home and getting thousands of viewers while casting.
Facebook - circa 2016-2017 I would take clips from my stream, download them, the upload them to facebook. This was mostly with PUBG highlights, but one video I made got over 2 million views. I made nothing off of my uploads to facebook, but just seeing tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people watching the clips, hundreds of comments and shares, it gave me a high every time I would see it.
And youtube. - same with facebook.

I might have had the chance to go full time as a twitch streamer. There were instances when I streamed that I had 300-500 concurrent viewers just doing stuff like walking around the streets of taipei and trying foods at the night markets or going to trade shows like computex or taipei game show, anime conventions like petite fancy, and similar events.

Ultimately, the reason why I quit streaming was because I saw that I had zero privacy. I did not have my girlfriend on stream, and I did not want her on stream, because I didn't want her to become a target if anyone became deranged enough to want to doxx me or something like that. I quit streaming in 2018 and very likely will not be going back to it.



If we take a slight detour to Reddit, I remember there were Subreddits I would browse that would host videos that make people angry, and therefore easily baited upvotes. I used to be one of those vocal guys that would share the video with other people while being angry. This was a regular behavior pattern from me until I saw...

The Social Dillemma

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However, I saw that documentary long after I saw The Great Hack.

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I feel as though both of these documentaries, or at least The Social Dilemma should be a mandatory viewing experience in public schools, possibly suited for early high school students. The key takeaway from The Social Dilemma is that a social media platform is geared to hijack your brain for a certain amount of time each day and make you dependent on it, either for one of two reasons:

1. The agenda of the CEO and board of directors as well as shareholders of that social media company to increase advertising revenue and thus profits.
2. The agenda that any state actors may have to alter your thinking or sew discord among Americans (vaguely speaking as a couple of examples: Russian meddling and the 2016 elections as well as Brexit).

After I finished watching The Social Dilemma, I learned not to assign emotion to anything that I see online and instead question myself about who would benefit me becoming emotional from viewing something. It released my mind from the control of anyone who had an agenda to push.

What are some documentaries you guys recommend? Anything that might give somebody an epiphany? Maybe something that will change the way they think?

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Last Edited: 2024-04-15 07:57:28
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Retired caster / streamer "BingeHD". Digital Nomad.
Yurie
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
11790 Posts
April 15 2024 18:41 GMT
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I think the only ones that have made that type of impact on me are nature/science ones. Not really changing how I think, just my place in things. Seeing how small we are in the overall scheme makes for an easier mental space for me.

Another angle is history. Nothing we do matters in the long run, things used to be much worse and are still trending in a positive direction. Makes it much easier to take the suffering humans expose each other to.

Just consider how you can be happy and make the world a little better around you. Sadly I cannot think of any specific documentary that has impacted me a lot, it is a lot of small things adding up.
r00ty
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany1050 Posts
April 18 2024 07:35 GMT
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Little Dieter needs to fly (1999) + Show Spoiler +

Murderball (2005) + Show Spoiler +

Marwencol (2010) + Show Spoiler +

From one second to the next (2013) + Show Spoiler +


Those changed me and i learned to cherish life a lot more.

I also probably consumed every WWII/Holocaust documentary there is out of personal reasons. The one about Roland Freisler, the "nazi judge", with footage of him sentencing my great uncle to death after he was tortured and ridiculed hit pretty hard, those events are not as far in the past as many people think.
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Last Edited: 2024-04-30 13:16:04
April 30 2024 12:36 GMT
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On April 15 2024 02:50 BreAKerTV wrote:
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What are some documentaries you guys recommend? Anything that might give somebody an epiphany? Maybe something that will change the way they think?

An epiphany? I'll do better - i'll give you a transfiguration. Or rather a few transfigurations, even.

WARNING: you may end up NOT liking what these documentaries tell. If you decide to watch them - it is your decision, and thus your responsibility for any unexpected consequences. Not mine. I merely offer an opportunity - _you_ click the buttons. Or not.

So, here goes. These few are imo a definite must see for anyone who's any more capable than the most uneducated farmer of some 33rd-world country. I recommend to watch 'em in the order i've listed them here, and to see no more than one per day - let each one sink in your mind before going to next.

Sapienti Sat.

10 Billion
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Obey
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TinT
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PotH
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RftAD
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the Dimming
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HLoW
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