EPTUS Politics Mega-thread - Page 5392
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Uldridge
Belgium4982 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21998 Posts
On December 22 2025 20:05 Uldridge wrote: yeah, its not beginning. We have been here for a long while and its still getting worse.People killed themselves for free because they wanted some attention (tide pod challenge). It's been this bad or worse for a decade now. 2012 was an inflection point towards marketing and social engineering dystopia. Edit: actually I couldn't verify about the tide pods if anyone has actually killed themselves by it, but I also remember the blue whale challenge etc. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18158 Posts
On December 22 2025 20:05 Uldridge wrote: People killed themselves for free because they wanted some attention (tide pod challenge). It's been this bad or worse for a decade now. 2012 was an inflection point towards marketing and social engineering dystopia. Edit: actually I couldn't verify about the tide pods if anyone has actually killed themselves by it, but I also remember the blue whale challenge etc. I think what the black mirror episode did was just take social media to its logical conclusion. We aren't quite there yet, but Jake Paul getting paid a shitload of money to get his ass kicked by a pro boxer (and breaking his jaw in the process, although that was not really scripted insofar as I know, just one of the risks of getting in the ring with a pro boxer). Teenagers have been getting "tricked into" doing unreasonable stupid dangerous shit on social media. Influencers are getting paid money to be terminally online (but usually not do stupid risky shit). All this does is combine the two: offer money for doing stupid risky shit and filming yourself while doing so. It's not a particularly novel concept. There was some Scandinavian detective series that focused on a crime ring of murderers posting their snuff videos on the dark web for money. And of course, there's squid game. The zeitgeist is clearly heading that way. It's fucking bonkers that we live in this timeline. | ||
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