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Those moments when you realise you were baited by a master baiter… :(
Clickbait is going too far. I clicked a recommended video the other week. It was a professional power lifter pretending to be a janitor to elicit reactions as he swept weights aside like nothing was there. The thumbnail was about a black man raging at the power lifter for misleading him.
My first thought was “this can’t be real. There’s no chance anyone reacted that way to minor chicanery.” Sure enough, the black dude was incredibly nice. The power lifter put up a racial stereotype with the guy’s face attached solely to get views. What if someone he knew saw the thumbnail and started wondering about him? The modern internet is a dumpster fire and I hate it.
Frustrating experience for me. It used to work, I got to see the light, but now has been totally broken on my machine for a while, idk what gives.
No, I don’t use any google services on my computer. That does seem appealing, if I ever decide to start, though. Bookmarked
ppl should realise entertainment is often fiction. if seeing a thumbnail of a man being angry makes you dislike him irl, i hope you never see any movie posters with angry people
probably this channel https://www.youtube.com/@vladimirfitness/videos if you look at the videos thumbnails, the latest video is a white dude “raging”
That’s the guy. And it looks like he changes his thumbnails and titles over time. At the time, it was solely the (currently) $200 video with an incendiary title.
tbf, that race baity clickbait is well over a decade old at this point. Soon after cheap viral videos became a thing, there were “social experiments” and “prank” videos that did not give a fuck about respecting other people.
I certainly remember when it really ramped up. I recall a “prankster” a little over 10 years ago who went to jail for going to “the hood” with a mystery package that he implied held a bomb. People online have been terrible for a long while, but this nonsense wasn’t recommended to me for several years. I can only imagine what might have spurred the algorithm to believe that race baiting was worth recommending.
As an aside, trump ruining the internet further wasn’t on my bingo card.
