Comment by asdff

If the answer is to just not use the internet that is basically like saying "broken arm? use the other one." The issue is that it didn't used to be this bad. You could browse a forum and not have it be shills or shill accounts farming points so as to not appear as shill accounts. It was a more personal world without people trying to market themselves as none of that was incentivized in any way at the time. People prolifically posting videos for all 43 viewers for years and you'd never see them turn the camera at their face.

It got too big and then it became worth the investment to advertise in, the meta was established, and then that was that.