Comment by dmonitor
5 days ago
Well put. As long as channels like Technology Connections can remain financially viable on the platform and not beaten down by the algorithm, I really don't care how many Mr Beasts are making "slop content".
5 days ago
Well put. As long as channels like Technology Connections can remain financially viable on the platform and not beaten down by the algorithm, I really don't care how many Mr Beasts are making "slop content".
I do. Slop content is melting the brains of the people watching that content to the detriment of society as a whole.
Soap operas, reality TV and evangelists have existed forever in various guises. "Bread and circuses" is thousands of years old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
I don't care so much about the dumb brain melting. However, what MrBeast and other youtubers do is exploitative to their audiences (which in the case of MrBeast skews young).
It's not great to see young kids addicted to content designed primarily to rob them of their money with false claims of success. "Oh, if you send me money, buy my shit, or subscribe to my channel, you could win millions of dollars!"
That sort of exploitative media should be illegal (and in the case of MrBeast appears to be illegal in some cases).
If you remove this they'll simply substitute it with something else. Some people don't mind "melting" their brains as they didn't have a primary use for it anyways.
Kentaro Toyama wrote that "Technology acts as an amplifier of human intentions".
We really are very susceptible to living in "default mode".
Probably. But this isn't really something you can control. So why bother?
Why even make this comment?