Are people’ lives really so empty that they cannot exist without drama and hate?
I recently read that there are conspiracy theories floating around about Epstein being a cannibal based on nothing. Isn’t him being a paedophile and running a sexual exploitation ring for minors enough anymore?
Electricbell20 on
It’s disappointing that an article saying hate brings views seems to be lacking the figures to back it up. Videos getting 10k views…is that it.
There’s a small local tiktok account for where I am. They have 5k views for talking about going to a hotel for breakfast. It went up 5 hours ago.
ii-_- on
Stories about London being successful (diverse, safe, wealthy, etc, which it is) isn’t going to drive clicksÂ
waiiitaminute on
Nothing new. Anything hateful, controversial, call it whatever you want, will bring views because you’ll have people rushing to defend it and people saying “I knew it”. That’s how it’s always been and probably always will be. People love drama
Many Sri Lankans and Infians are fueling the fire by ragebating those in the West with verified and often completely made up nonesense.
They can’t believe how easy it is
Benjammin123 on
The Daily Mail have been using that tactic for years.
CarlMacko on
It’s pretty rife. You have a quick look on Twitter and there will be someone with a blue checkmark posting nonsense as they know people will respond to it and it pushes it up the algorithm to get more eyes on it and so forth.
Clbull on
Unfortunately true, and not just on TikTok.
A controversial musician (not gonna name him) appeared on my YouTube feed three weeks ago. This guy was previously banned from the platform and had obviously created another account to evade the YT ban. He otherwise has a small following on X, Rumble and SubscribeStar (a Patreon alternative that right-wingers who get banned from there often flock to.)
His channel was previously pulling in just a few hundred views per video. And then the algorithm decided to promote one of the vintage 19th century song cover he did which got clicks because the title, thumbnail and lyrics contained the n-word (with a hard-R.) That video got 860k views and now his videos are easily pulling in 5 to 6 digit viewcounts.
The fact that YouTube promoted this kinda tells me that something is fundamentally fucking broken with their content moderation.
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Are people’ lives really so empty that they cannot exist without drama and hate?
I recently read that there are conspiracy theories floating around about Epstein being a cannibal based on nothing. Isn’t him being a paedophile and running a sexual exploitation ring for minors enough anymore?
It’s disappointing that an article saying hate brings views seems to be lacking the figures to back it up. Videos getting 10k views…is that it.
There’s a small local tiktok account for where I am. They have 5k views for talking about going to a hotel for breakfast. It went up 5 hours ago.
Stories about London being successful (diverse, safe, wealthy, etc, which it is) isn’t going to drive clicksÂ
Nothing new. Anything hateful, controversial, call it whatever you want, will bring views because you’ll have people rushing to defend it and people saying “I knew it”. That’s how it’s always been and probably always will be. People love drama
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/uk-migrant-crisis-fury-stoked-by-man-in-sri-lanka-making-thousands-from-fake-news/ar-AA1QBuhO
Yep.
Many Sri Lankans and Infians are fueling the fire by ragebating those in the West with verified and often completely made up nonesense.
They can’t believe how easy it is
The Daily Mail have been using that tactic for years.
It’s pretty rife. You have a quick look on Twitter and there will be someone with a blue checkmark posting nonsense as they know people will respond to it and it pushes it up the algorithm to get more eyes on it and so forth.
Unfortunately true, and not just on TikTok.
A controversial musician (not gonna name him) appeared on my YouTube feed three weeks ago. This guy was previously banned from the platform and had obviously created another account to evade the YT ban. He otherwise has a small following on X, Rumble and SubscribeStar (a Patreon alternative that right-wingers who get banned from there often flock to.)
His channel was previously pulling in just a few hundred views per video. And then the algorithm decided to promote one of the vintage 19th century song cover he did which got clicks because the title, thumbnail and lyrics contained the n-word (with a hard-R.) That video got 860k views and now his videos are easily pulling in 5 to 6 digit viewcounts.
The fact that YouTube promoted this kinda tells me that something is fundamentally fucking broken with their content moderation.