#He once showed me a “fun fact” about there existing a soup in china made from infants and it appears he actually genuinely believed it to b | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

iwonderwh0 · 1 month ago

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Whether algorithmically created (like tiktok, youtube, instagram, etc) or manufactured manually (like tumblr or 4chan), the inescapable nature of online echo chambers and their consequences terrifies and depresses me

#Often think about my old colleague who was the sweetest guy but pipelined into alt right ideologies through podcasts and tiktok #He once showed me a “fun fact” about there existing a soup in china made from infants and it appears he actually genuinely believed it to b #true #took one search to find out that it's a picture made by some contemporary artist and of course it wasn't real #but that's one of many things his algorithm threw at him and with enough bullshit you're not gonna fact check every single thing #Tumblr is also far from innocent tbh #people in here will start a bullying campaign of minors if they draw a fat character not fat enough or something like this and are often to #deep into tumblr thinking to consider that maybe this shit is also wild as fuck #I'm chronically online myself and I'm genuinely terrified of what kind of shit I casually utter in my daily interactions unaware of how #indoctrinated I had become in some type of specific echo chamber way #And what is it you can even do to avoid it #be chronically offline — yeah that sounds like a tangible possibility #except in today's reality you literally cannot do that as it'll just alienate you both online and offline because we don't live in a vacuum #And you quite literally can't afford to be illiterate about what's happening online for many reasons #I really need to delete this blog god fucking damn it I don't know how else to stop using it

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