I don’t really use Twitter anymore, I have a burner that I just use for sports and weather and news and never post from. But every time I open it, I have to question my sanity.
I just read an article about how there is an ice cream that is designed to, and I am not making this up, “taste like your grandma”
I subsequently read another article about how the New York Knicks won an NBA playoff game because someone let out “an epic fart”
These are real things. You can look them up.
Are people just getting more insane? Should I double up on my meds?
on certain crappy sites you see these panels of clickbaity links to dubious stories about celebrity scandals or weight loss tips, etc
i read an article about how they shove this miasma of emotional enthrallment bait out there and based on which crap gets more clicks they adjust the algorithm and drill down on that topic and that outrage/ drama angle for even more low quality engagement
based on your experience, apparently, this cesspool of link crap is now all #twitter is
@benroyce one thing that annoys me about twitter now is that my timeline is just like porn and videos of people dying. I don’t interact with these accounts at all and I have no clue why they would be on my TL. It’s impossible to block them because they are just bots, so if you block one, 10 more will show up. It’s quite frustrating, tbh.
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