I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.
It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn't put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went "bah" but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today
Since you said I'm wrong, what is the inflection point that I'm describing?
Did I say he flashed his wealth?
I do expect people to be aware of their impact, directly and indirectly, especially on kids. The more people you can potentially impact, the greater the responsibility to be aware.
Is data collection, exploiting children to sell products, and the consequences of profit-seeking something that we weren't aware of at the time PewDiePie became famous?
I agree PewDiePie didn't sell things to children. He didn't need to. He was the product.
I'm against commercial pressure on the internet, which seems like a radical concept now. PewDiePie didn't need to hawk products to kids i know he did a good job with that. But he was the product. He was the point at which kids saw they could become a gamer and help commercial sites collect people's attention and sell it to advertisers. That model is what broke everything. It turned the internet into cable television 2.0.
We already had corporate-approved media that was just a way to sell our attention. The internet, for a brief moment, was something for us. It was as close to a gift economy as we could get. It was the difference between a lawn sprayed with glyphosate to kill anything that wasn't good old American Texas bluegrass devoid of originality, beauty, or color but looking neat and a lawn allowed to grow wild, full of weeds but also flowers, plants, and life.
PewDiePie wouldn't have been the only one to make money, but he was the first to hit that milestone, and everything changed after that.
He laid the groundwork for those shitty influencer. He had the attention of young people who looked up to him. The minute they saw he could make millions by becoming the walking embodiment of a Nascar fender he set the attitudes and aspirations of a generation.
Would YouTube continue without him? Yes of course.
Could he have pushed back and created helped influence a generation of kids to reject the selling out of themselves to this influencer culture? Absolutely.
There were a few influencers in those early days that could have changed things or at least maintained the zeitgeist that we had then. Nobody did. That money was too good. Everything after he made that first million would change how the internet worked.
He was the inflection point. He could have impacted everything going forward. He could have told kids that these companies were stealing their data. That they were soliciting gamers to use as Trojan horses for what would eventually make everything worse.
You think not having total control of an organization means he's free of blame. Would you say that your MAGA uncle doesn't control Trump so isn't responsible for his actions.
Pewdiepie is literally called an influencer. He warped what many young people belief they can become today and that belief is what ushered in a world of influencers chasing the all mighty dollar. That has given all these corporations fuel to create content and that content is stealing our data, eliminating data scarcity and used to influence politics.
He's not the cause of it but he was an inflection point and could have went in a different direction to push kids to reject this new paradigm. Instead he was the face of it.
Why is everything considered trolling now. Obviously it's not meant to be a max positivity approved meme. I just thought it was something we could have a laugh.
It's just sad what is reported as trolling now. I'm all for the downvotes but reporting for trolling is stupid.
Something like that. I see a weird pattern with articles about AI and articles about immigration in right wing circles. They're the same. Like the themes and focus in the headlines for each all seem to be reused
I'm with you, I just think on top of those we also need to focus on where people are. Facebook does the heavy lifting now. They show you the most popular right wing groups now. It's easy to post to them
no they don't. That is what they tell their people. Israel is a foot hold into the Arab countries. Any military needs to be able to deploy rapidly. First to the battle has strategic advantage and smaller less powerful armies have destroyed larger ones just with that advantage. Israel lets America control that area and gives intelligence that it wouldn't have otherwise. Without Israel, they lose a major strategic advantage to controlling the Arab world. The Big J side is all woo woo. Not even sure I've seen anyone really say that. Almost all of America's moves are to control territory that gives their military the ability to deploy rapidly and to control territory.
I think it's a bold strategy to leave the bigger more populated and used platforms to constantly exist on the smaller less relevant ones that never grow and offer everything the major platforms do just worse.
Shall we take Stalingrad? nonono it's full of nazi's, lets focus on Dieppe
But we hate Trump, bigotry, racism.
This can't be the answer. What is the difference?