The Internet is Worse Than Ever - Now What?
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2023
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In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams.
There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.
New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.
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The most annoying thing is being acutely aware of all of this and seeing it happen without any agency whatsoever.
Not just social media though, the anger in large part is driven by the current woke movement, opinionated Left (which winds the Right up) and our go governments shoving PCness down our throats and getting more authoritarian. That, together with the COVID lockdowns, illegal immigration and ever-present wars, has really put people on edge.
Annoying is a good way to put it. It doesn’t make me angry, it doesn’t make me sad; I’m just really annoyed.
@@newtybot often i find the emotion to be frustrating, even deeper than annoying. but it's good to try and make sense of what you can
Just a tad little bit more than annoying for me. But I guess that says more about me than anyone else
Yup. Purged social media years ago. Sought IRL friendships but they’re all addicted to tiktok. Now I’m lonely everywhere I go and it’s like society is just... gone... now.
“Unfortunately, your brain is stupid”
I 100% agree. Thank you Kurzgesagt.
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE
@@RANDOMGUYBRO2763why?
i agree also
How do I like a comment twice?
Anti-vaxers:"fear my power of being stupid"
Deleted all my social media off my phone. Deleted RUclips as an app. I still have access to it, but I force myself to have to hop on my computer in order to see what I want to. Works like a charm, I’m happier and now I have more time for the things I’m interested in.
sadly i bought a laptop lmfao. future me might say it was the worst thing i ever did
YESSSS ME TOO!! I agree all my socials are on my ipad and it's been months since I charged it! I think our generation might facilitate smartphone death!
I should probably do the same. I tried using digital wellbeing tools but it isn't working out :/
@@improvwithlions4173 ooh interesting, what are digital wellbeing tools?? Like screentime monitors?
I did the same but failed to delete youtube. I should do tht😅
also, social media has created an atmosphere where real world issues become incredibly easy to digest and know about, expanding the amount of information that our brains can handle at once. videos about wars, genocide, and other gruesome things that are so easily accessible to people of all ages changes the way our brains grow and think, and can make those who are naturally more empathetic depressed and anxious about the world around us. I grew up in this generation without remembering a whole world without social media, and I can say that our brains are not meant to function by feeling every single negative thing this world has. it’s overwhelming.
as an adult teenager, I say this is accurate! atleast in my experience.
It has created an atmosphere where censorship is running rampant and everyone is constantly bombared with extremely efficient propaganda, much of which is intended to demoralize, divide and pacify us.
It is helpful in some ways like opening a wider community for a group of affected people, and also makes them think "there are people who had it worse". This honestly also makes it harder for people to find support because as more people can express themselves they find out that what they have is normal, especially when they go into a community filled with people who are also effected without knowing that they're in a smaller portion of the internet/world.
we need some down time asap
Also alot of it is powerlessness to change things for the better to solve these issues at hand. Granted this has always been the case since humanity is inherently hierarchical by nature but social media has really just made us more aware of how powerless most people are (assuming stories on there aren't faked which is also pretty common
My mom always taught me that it's no one person's responsibility to fix the world, but it's everyone's responsibility to not make it worse.
So for those of you who feel you lack agency, I'd say by not contributing to the anger, you're doing a lot!
That's for the tip, you great wise man i agree when a place got problems on are phones we need to leave it, and not go into fights in the name something it will not change. Stay safe love from israel
So, she's a ideological conservative?
wise words
Wise lady.
I'm glad someone is acknowledging this. Exploring the internet has become more stressful and discouraging to me lately because of people' behavior and attitude, and all the negativity, propaganda, and algorithmic curation that's constantly being pushed.
I must say... Arguing so much with people has lead me to open some socials way less frequently because then I have to keep arguing. And it helped me a lot since now I've just come out from a period of extreme boredom in which I was on TikTok a lot waiting for something to happen
social media is also just fucking lame. look at old websites. look at neocities. websites in the 2000s had SO much personality and charm. Nobody is "browsing" the internet anymore and it became a boring hellscape.
its not the internet thats is the issue, its how people are using it eg sical media. I tend to use the interent to learn things (alot through youtube), instead of news reading and that god awful thing they call reddit, it tends to be less toxic when you arnt interacting with other people.
My brain is stupid also..
So I would recommend Wisecrack channel, they also talk about this stuff but from philosophical point of view.
The curse of the internet is having to know what I don't need to know, and be angry abouth things I don't need to be angry about.
I hear you. Every time i see a video about something negative, I can’t help but feel bad, even if it isn’t connected to an interest of mine.
And I can’t just not care about it, since that seems apathetic.
true. seeing a negative video/channel legitimately ruins my day.
This, however, opens up the way for wilful ignorance over things that do matter. To minimise stress, it’s tempting not to care about all sorts of things, even if we can make a difference.
@@Cubeytheawesome It is apathetic, but so what? Being apathetic isn't a sin. It might even be the pathway to happiness, by your own statement, lol.
@@Awibrahor And what exactly is it that you imagine you can make a difference about? Your personal agency is very limited, probably more limited than you acknowledge.
Social media is like a text message, any comments/messages can be misinterpreted because there is no tone. Face to face communication always kept things in check. People dropped friends and family over social media posts and it’s hilariously sad
I remember loving forums or sites with "affiliate" banners, you could jump site to site! Social media was a mistake
wth why are you here pelo (btw, latin fan here!!!)
It's surprising how humanity made a double-edged sword and didn't anhilate themselves yet :/
ARE YOU READY FOR ROUND TWO!?
Not from my POV, it saved me from death :D
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Had this problem when I was stuck inside for a few years and didn't really socialize IRL.
Then when I got a job and talked to a lot of people I was extremely pleasantly surprised that people are actually normal.
Being perpetually online, or even just thinking that the online world is representative of the real one, is such a hellish trap, and you might not even realize it.
Yes, I think more people need to be aware of this, or else lives will be ruined.
Bro come on. The reason for that is because most people use the internet to show their true selves and keep a facade in real life.
It is not an accurate reflection of the real world, but it is telling you what people are thinking. At the very least we now have an understanding of what people genuinely think when anon. What people are realizing is that our internal thoughts are crazy and can be sinister or over reactionary in seconds. Social media has told you what your neighbor is thinking, and that scares you.
People also in real life often support the middle ground or sometimes even negative stances. On the internet because likes and upvotes are a thing people always virtue signal when they can. Whatever group you identify with, you pander to them, so they give you positive feedback and reinforce your decisions. It's a lot easier to disagree in person, especially as a conversation isn't recorded in perpetuity.
Agreed. Also, most people do not engage with content, ie they lurk and do not comment nor engage.
The real world is a better place.
I think the worst thing about social media is when you begin to realize how narcissistic and egotistical people become when they're behind a screen. You ironically see more flaws in humanity despite only seeing people's highlight reels.
you're part of the problem babe
@@Mildredpotka Thank you for proving my point. Btw nice troll account. 🙂
@@MildredpotkaI hope you find a healthier way to communicate with people that leads to lasting connection, you can undo whatever trauma has caused you to view confrontation as the default response it just takes time✌️
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Agreed, but guess what, they think the same way about you as well. Were all part of the problem.
it's really terrifying when you realize that you spent a good chunk of your life trapped in a virtual world, i'm not mature enough for the real world, it's frightening to me...
u know social media made it hard to understand real world
try hard things if u wanna be free child again
@@ilv839 can you elaborate
@@teabaggins7091 what u fighting on internet wuth people talk about it in real life
people will tell new perspective
atleast u can see the real expression
its not wasting of time
i am kinda clueless tooo still trying to figure out
life before Internet
I disagree
Then go outside more often. The only propper way is to face it(the fear); practice makes perfect.
I can't believe my nostalgia for the old internet is actually justified
I miss when each website catered to a niche. It made it so much easier to interact with higher quality content and creations.
This is pretty much how discord is used these days. At least the smaller more niche discord servers.
It's just unfortunate that it's relying on one specific company instead of individually run forums.
@@NihongoWakannaiKurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
people like hasanabi have started a pipeline to radical leftism on the internet, and its consequences are very visible while social media companies do nothing
a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable
you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to
sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better
I find it absolutely bizarre that parents are willing to put an iPad or phone in a baby's face and let them scroll endlessly through TikTok. I genuinely worry about what this effect will have on future generations.
Exactly, like I get it that it's a method to pacify their own kid but they are still too young to be on the internet, who knows where they might end up in when their kid is no longer in the child friendly demographic part of the internet, and don't even realize that these other types of media isn't on par nor is it supposed to be something to be shown to a young child. That's why it is highly suggested there is at least a global rule or something that every single parent to should know, that is to show the internet to their children only when they are ready or at a certain age when they can actually process such information.
In a way, that’s the best way to get us humans to adapt quicker to these new realities. This is evolution 😅.
@@HoboTangoyes, however evolution is not guided, evolution does not cater to what we want it to do, it might create more resistant minds to the Internet, but it could also have the inverse effect, where minds become more prone to internet addiction, because that is what gets it dopamine. 😔 So it turns out that fighting fire with fire, can work to stop the fire spreading, but in the end you are still left with a ton of fire
Tiktok is a chinese psyop
I think being exposed from a younger age helped me to adjust to the information overload. The iPad babies should do better than us in the future.
i think another problem is how, during covid, the internet/social media switched from being something we all use when we want to use it to being something we're all dependent on for work, school, communicating with others, etc. i honestly feel like everything becoming more convenient by being able to do it all on the internet has kinda changed how we live everyday life for the worse
A drama is currently unfolding in a fandom i love, and i am of the opinion that is widely considered the "wrong one" within that drama. All the fighting and all the opinions were genuinely stressing me out so much... And i don't think RUclips could have recommended me a better video. It genuinely resonates with me so much. Maybe it's because it gives me a logical reason as to WHY I'm so upset about this... But it's like I'm getting closure. So, thanks for making me feel slightly better about this whole thing.
Bro, I've been blocked, put on blast, harassed, and even had my intelligence mocked for simply having an opinion that no one else shares or for simply disagreeing with people. I know the feeling. That's social media in a nutshell.
Godzilla fan here, same thing is happening in some capacity in our fandom. I think can imagine how you feel. Being a fan of anything should never be this stressful but hey, it's the internet :/
@@yoschle3928 I'm curious, what is exactly happening in the Godzilla fandom?
Spot on! The internet truly embodies a mix of blessing and curse, all rolled into one. It’s a perfect example of how something can be so incredibly useful and yet so challenging at the same time.
Social media is a problem but humans too have intrinsic cultural problems with the contemporary culture (or lack of it) falling short of critical thinking and scientific mindset making people convinced of the most unhinged and extreme theories and ideologies (including religion ideology unfortunately).
P.s. Also the violent and partisan nature of us humans becomes very apparent when these cultural tribes tuns into such unhealthily competitive behaviour against each other
@@markmuller7962YOU’re WRONg anD I HaTe YoU. JESUS Died For YOur SINS.
Sorry to use this comment to make a point that hopefully will get seen, but is no one gonna talk about religion? I feel like religion is the problem with social sorting on the internet, and that's not gonna slow down ever. Internet or not.
It's only the fault of the LGBTQ cult.
@@colinmcintyre1769religion has been the number 1 cause of war so yeah you’re right
"One model that seemed to work well was the pre social media internet OLD people might remember."
*SHOTS FIRED*
Great video, and I enjoyed the ad at the end.
First reply never thought I would be first to a comment made by a RUclipsr with 11 million subscribers
Damnit. I'm old.
@@randomspacefan didnt even notice!! love the videos they did with the slow mo guys
It feels really good that I was born at a time, not too early or late, where I could see and understand the entire steady transition of internet and technology towards damnation.
Oh i misheard it as "all people" i was confused
Social media always makes me angry especially instegram and RUclips short it's just full of toxic people that try to advertise their political views that I don't give a damn about
This is why I deleted Tik Tok and Instagram, only kept snapchat to message friends and only use youtube for informational videos. Once I started spending my time reading, going outside and practicing self care, I found self love and feel smarter.
Social media makes you even angry at people irl, thinking they're constantly biased and against your opinions and makes you be defensive all the time. When you talk to real people in real life in real places, you realize people are not that evil or aggressive (except for some crazy people out there) and you can actually cooperate with them even if you don't share any opinions because they're actually normal people who are not that extreme. Call it facade, call it whatever, but it's safer outside than inside social media.
big factsss
@@lowkeyn Taking things out of context is your passion. You're just an example of my comment. I never said your family couldn't make you angry...
I believe a huge part of it is taking part in "conversations" without seeing the other person's face and body language. Some religious people came to my door but I couldn't bring myself to openly state their beliefs were stupid. I couldn't bear their physical reaction of hurt if I said that to their faces. Online I'd have no problem cutting out the niceties.
Idk christmas diners getting wild
@@dime.overmatter actually, I find it easier sometimes to express my nonconforming to someone face to face. But you're right, physical harm or being put in an uncomfortable situation is what makes us stop from being like that many times, but being assertive and building boundaries is important.
This ending really got to me. I miss the "old internet" so much, even extinct social networks (like orkut) were more community-focused. The internet was supposed to be a giant library, not an endless street market, with everyone shoving products in your face.
Such a good metaphor, btw I have seen so many bots on the comments recently
I'm glad i got to be part of that, being on forums for most of my childhood before it became more phased out...
To some extend it exists as discord but its far from main social media. Its a side activity now why all the major sites siphon everything everyone in one place, including one we're on now.
Reddit is still that way for the most part in my opinion, specific niche communities for your interests, heck even entire niche forums dedicated to say like your car etc. The old internet is still alive, but in a very small number. You have to look for places yourself, navigate the horror that is the algorithmic internet.
You can thank capitalism for that! Gotta monetize EVERYTHING, baby!
Look up Mastodon, Fediverse
The worst thing about this is even if you are trying to better society it will only work if everyone is on the same page as you
Has to start somewhere though
Hard to find once very stable social nowadays.
Forget forcing what you think is best for society and focus on what is best for your life, family and friends. Too many people trying to change the world with a biased or limited understanding of it.
A core problem is that a lot of people don't have any idea how to reach out and build bridges to the other side. All they know how to do when protesting in real life is to expel outrage from every orifice of their body, haha -- in other words, they're treating real life the same way they treat interaction on the internet. The blight of internet interaction has come full circle and the chickens have come home to roost in real life, heh.
People have literally just forgotten that the only way to get what you want in a democracy is to get the people who don't agree with you to -- gasp! -- agree with you. Because a lot of protesters are painfully young and naive and they've lived their entire lives on social media, the only social skill they've learned is to block and ignore people who they don't agree with. This has prepared them _exceptionally_ poorly for the task of trying to convince people who disagree with them why those people should change their minds and suddenly concur with the protesters' view of the world. As a result, they channel a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing about whatever issues it is that they're protesting about. Precisely no one's mind is changed, and consequently, no progress is made on any issue. If anything, it's actually counterproductive because people on the other side dig in their heels out of resentment at having been yelled at with no good faith attempt at engagement. Most modern protests on most issues do more harm to their own cause than good because the protesters are incapable of seeing the world from the other side's perspective, which is the necessary first step of persuading someone that you're right. It's remarkably true across the board, from Black Lives Matter to climate stuff to the current war in Gaza.
This made me really want to go outside and lay on the grass. I need to smell the earth it's been so long
i actually really hope the internet "devolves" into its earlier state - connections with people online felt more real, and everything seemed nicer and more passionate. now its a massive cesspool that more often than not makes you angry or sad. maybe we can revive old era internet
Won't ever happen. The early internet was so "cozy" and srs bizness because it was used by only a relatively small portion of society. After social media took off, and internet usage became a ubiquitous thing, everything changed.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
thats kinda what discord is if you think about it
It won’t. I think the next evolution of humanity is total virtualisation where all information is available instantly, and accurately without the ability to hide anything so consensus can be achieved immediately. A hive mind if you will.
Cause everyone was a fucking weirdo and we knew that
It’s literally the whole “normie” complaint
@@planescaped Interesting and fitting analogy. I do agree that it's impossible to squeeze all the toothpaste back into the tube, but it's not that difficult to squeeze some of the excess back in. Likewise, it's impossible to entirely detach ourselves from the Internet in this day and age, but it doesn't hurt to shut off the computer or phone for a while to rest your eyes, or failing that, to at least return to smaller communities like on forum sites or private Discord servers. Forums have been around all this time; one just has to look for them.
This is so true. All this toxicity in this platform has just grew and grew. Long ago, I didn't see any arguments online or anything. But now, it feels like I'm just flooded with arguments. Recently I saw a hater hating on a math video saying "So worst teacher 😒🤮" , starting an argument. I'm trying to avoid too much screen time, and this is so helpful. I should not watch those youtube shorts because it just sucks me in. Thank you Kurzgesagt.
Always say it's like a thing to be an asshole online like ppl have to do it
@@Loveispainj yeah
Good decision. Have a nice day ^^
Thats why I deleted Twitter, It started to make me very angry and even racist. I kinda miss it now but Im much happier.
Same here but with 9gag. I think it's better to avoid these platforms even if they had positive sides
Same here. I nearly told someone to off themselves.
Thank god I quit.
As someone who grew up with the earlier internet, I personally hated how massive things grew as it quickly turned into things that encouraged all of this.
@@cookieciahahaha good one 😂😂 you called the devil by his name
nah, that’s what everyone says, it wasn’t so bad then because you were too young to know it
@@cookiecia That's hilarious!
"The internet proves that not everybody can all fit under the same roof..."
- some comment I saw years ago
I miss the old Internet when you could find obscure blogs and such.
This video somehow managed to change my entire outlook on the internet.
You might not be the only one dude.
You got my word
hear hear
omg youre using outlook? team thunderbird is obviously the winning team there...
I completely agree with you. Have my like. Ah sh... here we go again.
I've been off of social media save for youtube and discord for years, and this information makes a whole realm of difference. Thank you, Kurzgesagt
This is why debate is so important. Logic and reason combined with perspective is the way forward. Looking at both sides of the same veiw.
even in debates people just want to win the argument and fully prove the other side as wrong as possible
no one is actually searching for any useful education and open understanding
@@sofia_jijai990 then they are not debating.
As a public school teacher, in a district where all the kids have learnt to use a smart device before a pencil, I can tell you that the Internet has messed up today's youth. I've been teaching for 20+ years, and kids nowadays cannot focus like before, get anxiety when separated from their devices, and feel more awkward in their skin due to a sense of reality that is warped by social media. It's terrible to see this shift and makes our lives as educators harder.
I feel my Swedish and English has become worse over time. My kid barely use social media because I believe her being outside and play is far more important than sitting in front of a phone. I do believe the mother of my kid feels the same way.
@@agamersinsanity Which is unfortunate, because the capacity to be outside and play has been reduced. You can't just go out and play because theres nowhere to go. Kids these days aren't allowed to do the things that the kids of prior generations did. I'm gen z and could be mistaken for agoraphobic, and even I have some childhood memories of doing things that would be impossible now due to legality and rules tightening.
As a society we've taken away the ability for kids to be kids.
My cousins are sharp when in comes to processing information. They are iPad babies. However, socially they are odd. Couldn't speak well until they were 6. Speaking well by means of properly communicating how they feel and think. Prior to that they could perfectly pronounce foreign words and weird noises. Like a recorder of video shorts babbling in human form. It was bizarre.
You see a lot of teachers on tiktok videos these days...and they don't seem very stable.
You're a teacher and you use the word "learnt" instead of learned? Guess you're not an English teacher...
I've been stewing for years on the idea that all of our conflicts are caused by our brains' unbreakable habit of sorting. It was super gratifying to hear this channel describe "social sorting" as an actual thing.
You could've researched the term on your own tho.
@@ccrossed4854 yea but i wouldn't have agree with him if he didn't have a piece of paper so
it is pretty much what national culture is. it is your team.
@@ccrossed4854he basically did it was just a theory to him at the time smh
It can be seen quite clearly through the abundance of straw man arguments on the internet.
i find it hard to believe that online filter bubbles don't have a radicalizing or ideologically isolating effect when people i know in real life tell me the absolute batshit crazy shit they believe they saw on their extremely personalized fyp
Moving away from mass social media and joining smaller forums like I used to prior to the large social media sites has been so beneficial. Seeing this video helped me understand that decision and makes so much more sense now.
Glad you guys explained what I couldn't put into words, the older internet just didn't want our attention it just existed because people liked sharing stuff
The basic human instict to share information monetized again by the greedy minority
Hopefully the internet is just going through it’s moody teen phase.
@@lucastheguy4452 lol
that was the entire concept of the internet but some people just took it to another level
Can't believed they capitalised our attention😭
I’m so glad this whole issue is getting more well known. My mental health in general has been much better since I stopped caring about social media and internet drama.
Says the guy on the internet in the comments section....
@@smhdpt12to be fair, commenting under an educational video is quite a bit different than going onto a Fox news report and arguing for 40 minutes
If it makes you feel any better the printing press lead to an 80 year war over slightly different versions of the exact same religion.
Absolutely
@@smhdpt12 you're exactly the reason why this video were made in the first place man.
Good thing I never made a Twitter, TikTok, or Facebook account...
This video needs to be shown in schools
This is precisely why I've lately started to become more social in the real world. The world isn't nearly as bad when you experience it in real life as the social media makes it out to be. I feel like my life has been going way better ever since I reduced my social media consumption. I still use it every once in a while but nowhere near as much as I used to.
TikTok is poison
Exactly. The real world has so few of those twitter radicals that it does wonders for the soul. Turns out most of the working class is just as racist and homophobic as me who'd have imagined.
It's not AS bad, but it's still full of lefties, libs, and foreigners.
that's the exact thing I've learned as well. I was basically terminally online for a while until I went back to my home country and then talked to my family and various old friends. I found out that real life conversations are far better than the ones you make online.
Yea the internet shows u the worst of the worst but outside its refreshing how much nicer people are
It's kinda nice after hearing for so many years "you're isolated and sheltered in your worldviews" that studies have found the opposite. Personally, I'm regularly taken aback by very different and sometimes radical worldviews to mine on internet websites, comments and social media. It makes sense as when I'm with family/friends it feels like a break as their worldviews feel less deeply contrasting than the internet.
Didn’t expect to see you here! The internet really can serve as a breeding ground for radical opinions.
Honestly that’s really good for you cause there’s lots of people who isolate themselves and forget about what going on around them
exactly.
I mean, it's still true to an extent, just not because of the internet or algorithms like some want to believe, but because many of us naturally live in different parts of the world with different standards and cultures.
But again, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just internet bringing up disagreements about things most of us wouldn't even bother to think about otherwise.
Oh hello Phantom! Out of all youtubers I watch I would have never expected to see ya here. Pleasant surprise regardless^^
Disconnect to connect.
I've found that what I see on social media is a reflection of me not the world. Once I got rid of all negativity and only commented and engaged in wholesome content all I ever see is a beautiful world and people on social media
I'm glad someone is acknowledging this.
The "old internet" is so important to me because I didn't have many friends as a kid and through a group of people I shared an interest with, that I found from word of mouth and not an algorithm, I manage to spend my adolescent with people who understood me the way classmates hadn't. In addition, this helped me find people from other kinds of families and expand my world view slowly without being overwhelming. I know that if I was born just a few years later, I would have had a much more difficult time managing my own thoughts because I would never have grown up in a community that allows a space to mentally breath and adjust.
IRC was my go-to social circle for years and made a lot of great friends through a circle of people who shared a specific shared interest: we were a bunch of wreckheads who'd get mashed every Friday night and hang out together on video chat and sometimes play videogames together.
I've been unable to find a similarly tight-knit online community since then, even Discord doesn't seem to match the level of social interconnectedness as IRC, at least IME. Maybe I've just not found the right server 🤷♂️
Great example of saying a lot of words without really saying anything. You can still find communities on the new internet. I've been here since the start as well, myspace and old youtube days. It's not that different and you're over-exaggerating how "difficult" it is to navigate.
@@yangpaan453 I was literally thinking the same thing lmao. This is why Kuzgarts vid about social media not creating opposing viewpoints is imo false af. All these "communities" are still around, many people just look in the wrong place like the top social media platforms known to be toxic or the already known to be godawful youtube comment section lol.
@@yangpaan453This is actually kinda true. There are still plenty of small forums you can go to, it's just that people see how big social media is and think that's all there is to the internet now.
But at the end of the day though I still think social media needs to go. We can hide in our smaller communities all we want but the longer the normies have their brains rotted by social media the worse its going to be for us.
I like saying nothing, but also I just meant today's internet overwhelms me, that's all :)@@yangpaan453
We had so much fun growing up in the 80s in a small city. Kids still played on the sidewalks. Now they dont dare. Toxic culture.
I need a t-shirt that says “your brain is stupid”
2:11 you didn't have to do me like that
Yeah they did
They even had to tell you twice just so you could understand
He called me stupid 😢
😂
He said it twice too…..
@@hollandicus_missile*this is a example of what he said on the video
The bit about the old internet and forums really brought a tear to my eye. I remember vividly the discussions that were had, and how engaging it was to talk to like-minded people across the world. You actually made friends with the people you engaged with frequently. I really miss those days.
Yeah, and there was no ban/ignore button for each user. Only moderators and administrators can do that, so you'll face a diversity of opinions whether you like it or not.
@@exception05alas, nowadays you get banned for pointing out objective facts/truths in certain places if you don’t uphold the current narrative
a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable
you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to
sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better
Forums still exist. You can create one in seconds and then foster a community. The problem will still exist. The problem isnt the internet ... well for the most part. Its people.
Seeing this video made me realize I'm very glad I made the choice to never pick a side, I've been saying for years humanity is like a baby trying to swim across an Olympic pool, now we desperately need to get back out of the water and actually learn and grow before we swim again.
The annoying thing is that we are all aware of this toxicity and burden, but really we don't take any action just to prevent for some least. This is sad, but also the bitter reality of today. Anyway, we are all under influence of social media, and we cannotdo anything about it unless we assess it in a way that would benefit us.
The worst part is, a lot of people who sees this will likely not recognize that they themselves can/are feed(ing) the issue. I can see huge swaths of people thinking "Yeah, that's exactly whats wrong with them, they lack the self-awareness that me and my peers have!" (The irony will be rich).
WILL be rich? There are several such people in the comments section already.
Some people ARE just stupid. And we gave them the loudest voice there is due to how the internet was designed. -.-
Or rather, due to how social media was designed. Controversy drives engagement. Ugh...
@@arkosilaura yep, only way to keep our heads straight Is admit it when we do the same :/
Ikr I do this everyday I don’t want to I actually want to be less judgmental but it is what it is all I can do is not open my mouth about something that I disagree with
I massively disagree with you. You're clearly on the other team and therefore evil.
im trying to be self aware but its not very easy considering the person you live with more throughout your life is yourself
I strongly feel these types of lessons should be taught in school from an early age. People need to learn to examine their own thought patterns and think critically about their own beliefs, biases, and assumptions. They need to learn to think from the "other side" and not take their own positions for granted. They need to learn to be dispassionate and reasonable when assessing what to believe, and who is worth listening to. Make these lessons part of our children's upbringing. My generation is only half as likely to smoke as our parents thanks to institutionalized anti-smoking campaigns and education. In the same way, maybe we can teach the next generation to avoid becoming victims of their own stupid brains.
in some systems they do that to some degree already. i don't know how relevant it is, but source criticality is heavily encouraged in schools in some nordic countries. this only applies to factual stuff though, not tolerating others' opinions.
So you want school to last even longer or what would you cut out?
@aurorasun-qs1pg Dude it's not like they're suggesting an extra 5 years of school or something. My mom actually works as a librarian in an elementary school where they teach things like this to young children as part of their ELA/communication classes. Media literacy is a natural next step in existing parts of our education, and it's not difficult to include in our current curriculum. The most difficult part about including it is that people who are deeply radicalized tend to get angry when their kids are taught to question these things, which depending on the laws of your local school system, may mean you're limited in what subjects you're allowed to bring up or what materials you're allowed to share.
I really like the way you phrase the last sentence. Avoiding your own shortcomings and teaching that skill. That's a great plan!
@@aurorasun-qs1pgI would rather the OP's idea taught in schools instead of radical gender ideology.
Sometimes I think about how much more upset extremities made me feel years before, compared to how today rather than concerned I feel almost only agitated. I hope one day I can come back to being my past self, at least on that plane
I'm suffering through the same thing tbh. I once called out a RUclipsr for being selfish and only doing things for money. And his fans replied to me defending him saying that everyone is selfish and everyone only cares about themselves nothing wrong with that.
It broke my heart tbh so many horrible people defending someone who are just there for money.
Amazing - really liked this video. I recall early internet, I was in a couple of forums and internet was quite simple. Today as I search for the best way to say practise music, I get drowned in at least 5 different opposing ways to do it, each with a large following, and it’s mega confusing. I guess I miss the pre internet times where you’d just ask your teacher, parents, best friend and whilst not the ultimately best answer, it was simple. :-)
I totally agree with this. What I’ve learned after being chronically addicted to the internet is that you can disagree with someone without hating them. I can hate the idea of something but not hate the people who don’t hate it. We kind of just have to understand that everyone is different and there are so many different opinions and ideas that we just have to deal with.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle. Too little education is ultimately at the heart and core of many if not most of society's problems. As one becomes more aware of the details and nuances of a particular topic, which is absolutely a form of "more educated," one will realize that they can consider a position relating to that topic and come to the conclusion that it's not a sound position without having to "try it on for size" first. Education also allows one to _disconnect the opinion from the person espousing it, which is exactly what you're talking about here._ You can absolutely recognize someone's opinion without having to agree with it.
However, this leads to another quote: “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur. America in particular has a problem here, and it's a big one. Politicians depend on low-information voters to pass unwise, unhelpful, or potentially risky/dangerous legislation that only really benefits select groups or individuals, and the less educated a person is the easier they are to manipulate, so there's a disincentive to encourage increasing amounts and levels of quality of education. (A great relatively recent example was Trump famously saying that he loved the poorly educated after winning the POTUS election in 2016.)
@@OddlyIncredibleOver-education is the real issue, not lack of education.
The whole culture war phenomenon STARTED in universities after all by student activist groups and activist professors with idiotic, utopian ideologies.
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
who asked?
Very true. But we can't make the mistake of just chalking everything up to different opinions and be done with it. There are opinions that are not to be accepted. A good rule of thumb is if their opinion is something that hurts others, it's probably one of those.
If someone doesn't like pineapple on pizza, that's fine. If someone wants to eradicate a subset of the population, it's not and they need their attitude adjusted.
I used to think that the main reason why the internet is such a toxic place is because of most people feeling anonymous and that can make people show less empathy and also be more likely to say or do bad things to other people but this video shows much more than that and explains it really well
Maybe not anonymous, but distant. Today a person can go into a forum filled with people they hate, "shout" a bunch of rude things, then leave feeling smug that they just upset a bunch of people without consequence. But try doing that IRL and someone may chase you or retaliate in some way.
the internet nowadays is just brain rotting memes and songs and children making tiktok
It’s also that some people have believed one thing their entire life and when they’re introduced to other opinions that are different, they go on a rampage and refuse to even listen to the other side even slightest, which is a huge problem in our brains that doesn’t really have a solution
@@nicraftstudios0 The solution, in my opinion, is to stop viewing everything as a bipartisan issue. People just whittle down every issue to "it either is, or isn't" and it's an unhealthy way of thinking. More people need to realize that the world isn't black or white, it's greyscale.
I wish I had less empathy. I took a massive L the other day during a stupid argument against some jackass, now I feel guilty for some reason
I didn't find the dismissal of the filter bubble to be particularly convincing. It's something that holds up pretty well logically, has some heavy investigative reporting behind it, and deserves a bit more explanation than you're giving it. It makes complete sense that the real world isolation is more impactful and perhaps more prevalent, but I think you were too quick to dismiss the concept here. Keep going on this great topic. I've been hungry for more research here for quite some time. Thanks!
I literally had this convo with my sister that why dont we see people as individuals and not seperate them in a box just because we had one bad interaction with a specific community and then i saw this
This explains really well the phenomenon of "react videos". people don't want to be on the internet alone, they want to share the moment with someone they identify with
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Ohio Amogus Rizz Sus Skibidi.
How can I have an existential crisis when these animations are so freaking adorable? I feel so….. conflicted.
I'm glad you ended with the note we're all on the same team. I've been in many relationships throughout my years and funny enough, most of the people I've been the closest with are the opposite of me politically. We learn from each other and gain a better understanding of the world, even if we still disagree.
Something that is also scary is how the Internet/social media is not just built to be addictive (and often people turn to being addicted to the Internet/social media to make up for something they're missing IRL), but they're also getting more and more integrated into becoming necessities for a lot of people. For example, a lot of job searching and maintenance is exclusively done online, and people that would try to avoid being online would also struggle to avoid making a living for themselves in our capitalistic society unless they were online.
A lot of students in schools/colleges also turn to learning way more online than in-person, especially since a lot of education systems need a long overdue overhaul.
Agreed, I keep feeling the urge to totally go cold turkey and completely disconnect, but it's just not plausible
it's this way by design! they want to force you to keep buying (smartphones, computers, ipads, chargers, all sorts of devices)!
I find it so complicated trying to not be on social media or a device, I can't escape it during school since we always use our chromebooks to learn and the teachers barely make me do any hand-on activities.
I hate seeing applications that demand access to your social media. No 🤡
F u ok?
This video actually feels so relatable - not seeing social media actually really does make me feel better.
youtube is social media fam, leaving comments, likes and dislikes, the algo, it's all here
@@Enderlad yeah but at least you go to just 1 or 3 platform and use social media for only 1 hour each day, balance it off you know its good
you get to learn things on youtube though@@Enderlad
@@EnderladRUclips is more fractured than twitter. Thats why its not as toxic here as there. All social media isnt created equal. RUclips still simulates the “small villages” concept.
By allowing people to follow channels and congregate around videos. Without being bombarded with shit they dont wanna see. Theres not really a “time square” effect as much. But Twitter….dear god lol that place is a fucking colosseum.
@@Enderlad Difference is that big social medias like twitter or tiktok are actually bad such as tiktok giving it's users short attention span and getting your data while twitter has a lot of toxic people, politics, propaganda, etc. meanwhile (from my experience atleast) RUclips just feels rather much more calmer and a bit different, there are problems obviously but I think RUclips, get's a small pass from being social media.
Funny enough, I treat people on Discord exactly as I would in real life: polite, friendly, and honest.
Not virtue signaling, just saying that some of these are so direct that it still lets you interact as people before other people
The best part is that it's reciprocated! At least in the servers I'm in. We mess with each other, sure, but at the end of the day, we make sure that we stay on good terms and keep the online community we're in a net positive.
Im actually pretty much addicted to the internet and I always tend to leave a comment everywhere . When I see something I don’t like I immediately disagree , yeah , I’m honestly embarrassed but I had to say it . Social media changes people , and even when I’m super shy and introverted in real life - in the internet I feel like I have an complete different personality .
I feel like people spend more time online nowadays .. because they don’t know how to spend it in real life .
I suggest you to just become like me
apolitical individual who listen to metal music while watching anime and playing video games
It's non of us business to fix this world
@@sofia_jijai990 Your so right ! ♥️
It's insane how rapid the internet has changed the world within the last 20 years. That number isn't even a lot when you think about it, especially since the internet has evolved so quickly and continues to do so 😮
Дело в том что люди слишком заняты в погоне за счастьем и им некогда остановится оглянуться и подумать что вокруг происходит и в кого нас превращают, в заключённых в цифровой тюрьме.
age of information and content creation. people have no idea how easy is to manipualte social media with bots and promotional accounts if u want it. social media is also a huge bussines. what young generation need to understand
Yes, and now the AI revolution is well under way. It's crazy how computing technologies have speed up the pace of innovation and social change
And the worst people are trying to gain fame and fortune using it.
And people didn't even think it was a big deal at first.
It has many benefits, but we need to use it wisely
I'm an 8th grade science teacher. I showed this to my homeroom class in hopes to make the world a better place. This video explains everything I've ever wanted to put into words about our opposing views as society. Thank you Kurzgesagt. I will always rely on you to keep things real. 143
what is 143?
@@dragongal9714 my dad would write it at the end of letters he sent me when I was very young and we were hundreds of miles apart after my parents divorced. He loved numbers. It means “I love you”
keep it 55 street
@@dragongal9714i love you
I have been thinking this too why people become so weird using internet
The internet was thought to save humanity much time and efforts in knowledge and business sides. Socially, it was much praised how it would bring different people together, spreading understanding and peace among them.
Now look how it turned into, and sorry how we ended up with such ego-centerizm. Enough how people are losing even common sense and younger generations are easily showing aggression!
It took a bad turn. But what did we expect with that much power at our fingertips? It's always gonna go south.
I appreciate you make an opportunity to find such a great news site.
I like Ground News so much.
Crazy how obvious this was the moment you pointed it out. Of course the problem isn't that we're too isolated, it's that we're too connected to too many people at once, and our brains can't handle it.
Yes, but It's also true that the people we are positively connected to are too far away and it's impossible to interact with them in an everyday scenario. Ultimately we are surrounded IRL by people we don't like, scrolling through social media interacting with people we don't like and finally attempting to socialize with the 5 people around the globe we find meaningful feeling the most isolated as we've ever been.
I personally dislike that the video's solution was choosing to stay in small communities that agree with you, rather than trying to argue other philosophies to see if you are logically flawed in practice, by staying in small communities that are there to support our view, it doesn't matter how easy it is to disect flaws in it, because nobody ever argues when you share the same opinion and you don't improve or make progress.
We're just isolated from the kind people, people who would think before they leap in real life, instead we're now making everything rude, vile, black or white with so much connectivity and building up bubbles on internet, making propaganda groups all over thale place and get all of us "satisfied"
reminds me of the babel fish in hitchhikers guide
@@Solarizzin Fair point. The only "good" thing about conflict on social media is that you can learn to disagree civilly from it...but unfortunately most people won't learn that lesson I'm sure
I'm 23 and recently deleted all social media except RUclips and WhatsApp. It's been amazing for my mental health! Social media definitely has its place, but it stopped being worth it for me.
youtube is a major part of the problem
Unfortunately I don't think the ends justify the means and the social media experiment has failed.
You just gave yourself hours of your life back 💖
Social media makes you sad. I'm glad to say I've convinced my children of this as well and they're not interested in it.
@@ahaharegret3744unless you watch retro PC channels
Thank you for waking me up from this social media hell
Do Not Adapt!
I remember someone saying that because everyone is now behind a screen and instead of looking at each other's face directly to communicate, it makes them meaner because there's less repercussion when you say bad things to them and vice versa, whereas if you insulted someone and you see reaction on their face directly, you might be inclined to think more about what you say next
That's true. Look at online gaming people can flame all they want until they get confronted in person.
definitely true, ive even seen someone straight up admit it in a comment section and act righteous about it
Completely true. There's a lot of social cues and communication that cannot be conveyed online. Our brains are not wired to communicate this way and they really struggle to cope sometimes. A lot of people don't understand that your brain is doing a lot of stuff when you're just simply talking to someone face-to-face. Lots of hormones and chemicals and nervous system responses are going on. It's impossible to get that right across the internet.
I feel like that a lot like I play Fortnite with a friend and I’m so mean but in real life I’m so nice. I can’t help it.
Someone actually threatened to doxx me when I pointed out to them that I'm a stranger on the internet in an argument.
It’s so important to be aware of what the Internet does to us as human beings. I know people who basically live on social media and their whole real life views are so abstracted and far from reality. Thank you Kurzgesagt for bringing awareness to this matter.
This video is about how spending time in real life drives your views away from reality. The internet is bad because it shows you too much reality. Your brain isn't prepared for reality.
Internet can't do anything to you, it's a tool for you to use and utilize.
@@KartikChauhan__KCthat's not completely true
@@KartikChauhan__KC I agree it cant do anything to you physically. But it can influence your point of view and make you think in a specific way without you knowing it, which is also explained beautifully in the video. Of course you can use it as a tool to do good. But the same can be said the other way around
I disagree with the bubble thing. When I am on youtube my extrem opinions becomes stronger. When i discuss with people at my workplace i get oppinions i never see online
When you have a group of people who think that murdering their own children is a god-given right, how can you not be upset and angry? You'd have to be a literal monster not to be upset and angry about that.
I got rid of all my social media at the beginning of the year. The thing that was my tipping point was 2 things: Realizing that people that talk about finances/economics (I'm an accountant) never know what they're talking about. So I just sat there and screamed into nothing trying to correct every comment I saw thinking that I would some day make a difference or something. That, and the fact that I would never know these people existed if social media did not exist and there's a high chance that I could have been arguing with just a straight up child. I'm 26, and the thought of me getting mad and ANYTHING a minor says online and trying to dunk on them filled me with so much shame, that I just got rid of social media.
You don't need it. There is so much to do OUTSIDE of your phone. I think we honestly forget that. If you ACTUALLY look, there's so much free stuff to do, and even more if you're willing to spend some money.
Get off of social media. Make yourself happy; you deserve it
yet you're here
I toned down a lot my social media on 2023, RUclips is mostly the only thing I use (very little) facebook like 2/minutes a day if any, the rest of the social media apps I don’t use them (IG, TT etc).
I went to my parents house to spend the day, and my Mom did notice and say “hey you are of the few people I don’t see glued to their phones” I had the most amazing day with my Mom and Dad.
Kurzgesagt is one of the few things I actively follow 😊.
I definitely recommend to tone down social media 🎉
@@jorocRUclips at this point is barely social media
Damn you just got ratioed in the yt replys
@@joroc RUclips is a video sharing platform first, not a social media platform. Some people use it that way, but the absolute majority just scream into the void with their comments, never expecting any replies.
This person for president
This explains really well as to why i always prefered smaller communities on discord. Whenever a discord server i was in grew too large because the owner changed the focus of the server i left due to the negativity that started to form and eventually killing the server. A small server focused on one certain game is way friendlier and welcoming than a large server that has members from multiple games.
I don't use any form of social media, I just like discord. The platform has plenty of issues, but I like the way communities can easily form around common interests
I always found that the larger a discord server got, the more likely members of it wanted to enforce their own ethics on others as more and more different people (all individuals are different in some way) joined. They would begin to demand new rules, specifically tailored, though unknowingly, to cause "ethics drift" of all members toward their comfort rather than keeping the space neutral where no one would hold power. < Essentially, they were forming their own "New Culture" and creating norms, practices, beliefs and taboos for it. This new creation then became more important than the group's original aims.
Factions would form, where "Person 1" wanted to enforce their ethics on "Person 10", and would enlist the support of "Person 2", "Person 3" and "Person 4" to do it, because despite being slightly different to each other, they were all radically different to "Person 10", and so banded together to fight a common enemy.
It's an interesting case study on how societies form, and a shocking one on how, to keep the cohesion of said new society, they are willing to do awful things to others in order to gain and then hold power. After getting rid of "Person 10", they then eventually turned on each other, due to the aforementioned small differences despite agreeing on almost everything else.
It's like a "Culture Paradox". Cultures form, remove anyone not seen to be in the same tribe, gain control, then look inward due to no outside "threats" and purity spiral, lose members, and then self-destruct when there is only one person left standing. It was human psychology and the people moving to it were both unaware that they were doing it, and also shocked that it had outcomes for them.
I still believe MySpace was the Golden Age of Social Media!
Can you tell me everything about myspace from how it began and how it ended
The main thing I notice with people is that everyone is trying to prove they are smarter than everyone else and automatically deem a lot of other people as stupid instead of considering their side. What I try to do is not designate myself at all and just view everyone as important regardless of their opinion or status
"my political point of view is correct and yours is wrong"
pretty much the entire internet
Yep. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve been called dumb, dense, stupid, or be told I lacked critical thinking skills online by people who are trying to prove to a bunch of strangers how smart they are for validation. It’s not even about educating people anymore. It’s about making total strangers feel horrible to inflate your ego.
I am so glad that someone with great reach is recommending the 'Old Internet' model. I've been ranting all over the place about how people should be browsing forums and using small websites. I've even used the same explanation that there was less unnecessary conflict because everyone could find their niche, and how things like cancel culture would have no legs since people wouldn't have their whole online life in just one place, and how things like Tumblr getting radicalized (and then Twitter getting radicalized when Tumblr alienated a large amount of their userbase), wouldn't have happened, since people wouldn't have felt social pressure to conform to popular opinion so that they can stay on the site that 'everyone' is using. Way too many people are just hoping for the perfect 'platform' to come along, when in reality you can go and seek out any number of websites that appeal to you, or even set up your own.
Yes, the internet changed when the masses bought computers to watch the towers fall down over and over. I was on the net by late ‘93 and it was mostly nerds with similar humor.
But this model has already been implemented. It even has a name: Reddit. And guess what? It literally only exacerbates the problem; and this shouldn't be surprising, either, since isolated communities are bound *by design* to end up as echo chambers. I'm not sure what Kurzgesagt was thinking when they produced this video.
@@maxkho00the problem is it’s too easy to change your “tribe” and people are organised by what they already think, or they think the same way as whatever extremist group they already came across.
Reddit happens because people on the internet don’t have to agree. They don’t have to resolve conflict. They can just find a new group of people who agree with them. It’s a really really hard problem, because people shouldn’t conform to their tribe or their society if their tribe is toxic, unhealthy or a cult. But if people are given the ability to change their tribe, they are more likely to join an echo chamber, or people that already agree with them.
We have to remember that tribal society wasn’t actually very good, it could be worse than social media. Remember back then they didn’t tolerate anyone who wasn’t part of their tribe, they fort a lot more with other tribes; people with disability were excluded and killed, and there are still conflicts going on today about tribal issues that have been ongoing for hundreds of years.
I don’t think there is a solution
build your own website? it won't work the purpose of every small freedom of speech or information website is to be purchased buy a large company and controlled it keeps up the illusion of freedom of speech hell look at rotten tomatoes is a perfect example for you I don't doubt that the internet will revert back to the way it used to be all by design of course the government will section off certain parts of the internet this will make it far easier to control because the community will control itself there will be less outliers then and everyone will be happy because this is what they wanted. what you wanted 😉
The funny thing is though. Amino is kinda like that. Since every community/fandom is separated. Where everything you ever want to stay in one community stays on it. We will of course have a crossover here and there. But that's why I'm still using it this day as it's just easier to go there and say to myself. "Let's see what is going on today"
It's pretty relaxing in my opinion. The only thing that kept me stress however was doing rps but besides that. I feel safe and calm. ^^
A lot of this boils down to my understanding of the internet- when you can’t see a person’s face, they cease to be a person and become a narrative. Pretty tragic really.
I agree with you but how often are you replying to an actual opinion online or a bot whose purpose is to antagonize?
Bingo. This is why the most successfully divisive "arguments" (for lack of a better term) in the us vs them conflict involve dehumanizing the other part as much as possible.
The best people I've ever met in my life were through the internet. They were all people I couldn't see the face of but learned them through their mind since looks say nothing about who a person is and you typing to another person is just an extension of your brain to theirs. But it's also a double edged sword because for all the wonderful people that exist online there's also a lot of bad ones. But this same thing can be said for people in your physical world. Not everyone in your town or city you meet are trustworthy just like those online.
I don't agree with this. I think it's even a lot more of people with real photos as profile pictures on social media, while back in the day in older forums it was a lot more anonymous.
So just the effects of dehumanization and deindivituation
Hi, first of all your video is great, secondly it make think a lot. I spend too much time on my phone and social media and i was think that too those days, I wanna thank you for that because I was saying my self everything you've told in your video early this day at work.
Thanks and count on me to share your video.
Here after Doja Cat Twitt on January 25: 🔥🔥🔥
This is something I'm intensely passionate about and used to worry a lot over. Appropriately, a few years ago I wrote a blog post about this tendency in society, where our social graph has been flipped on its head, from being tightly connected on geographically small scales, to being connected at almost all scales of the world. If you do this with almost any dynamical system in a numeric simulation, such as forest fires or epidemics, you get extreme behaviour very quickly. And look at us, that's the case with us as well.
who asked?
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Bro got jumped by bots 😂😂
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"The human brain was not designed to understand the nature of reality" is a statement I wholeheartedly agree with. And yet I believe that understanding is the next step we need to take as a species. The more we see through the primal facade of tribalism and social identity, the more trivial and pointless our biases, bigotry, willful ignorance will become. We are all just scared apes with dangerous toys that we've unleashed (and yet barely understand). All of us need to come together and realize that if we don't "grow up" and evolve past our ancestral past of fear and violence, we will all die out like almost every other creature that has ever walked this planet.
4th and 5th dimension start somewhere.
Maybe it's for the better we don't take the next step. We are only a few steps from xenophobic space colonialism and nuking earth.
Ever wondered that maybe we were not supposed to "evolve" more?
True. We can only keep repeating the same mistakes over and over for so long...
@@furiousdestroyah9999 watch the video
@@tavernburner3066 Already did
A phrase that has always helped me recently. (Although I am still human and get angry)
"Nothing is one way"
Great work! Thanks for doing this!
This explains my feeling about why I disliked social media, that I couldn't quite place. I saw people get far, far more narrow minded and even I cannot help but feel I was more narrow minded when I used social media. I quit and I began to flat-out say no, and started digging on two sides half the time. I ended up coming across a youtube channel(not this one) that actually seemed surprisingly wholesome, with its main poster actually highlighting an exact problem I had with some gaslighting trolls behavior, and how they also had contrasting views yet still got along.
I came to the conclusion that, in the earlier pre-social media days of the internet that old people like me remember(damn you Kursgesagt! DAMN YOU!), we were happier on the internet because we didn't have to be online 24/7 in the name of some idiots profit. We were happier with smaller communities online.
This exact idea is why I really only interact with reddit as a social media. I can focus my interactions into the communities that interest me, and once I have the information/entertainment I need, I can leave and not feel bad about it
I'm thinking about the queation: "Is RUclips a kind of social media platform?"
I mean, there is a similar engagement fokused algorythm, opinions, groups (channels) you join etc.
If it is, is it fractured enough (as in the proposed solution in this video) to not social sort people as much?
My roommate and I never got into social media, don't use any of it at all, and we've always referred to it as literal cancer. That's since it was invented & to this very day.
I too only see videos in RUclips, and have left all other social medias. I too think this (aka our team ;) ) is better than the... other team, but I see that there is another team who has positives and negatives, and we need to somehow reach out to them, because the planet is on fire yo, and we need to work this out, just.. not me.. not today.
But this analysis made me realise this, I did not realise it before and now I feel I need to do something about this.
I am not even sure how to make my wife see this video, who likes Kurzgesagt but does not like sitting for 20 mins and watching a video.. I dk.
I did not know that you all had to write an English essay
The other thing with the "old" internet was how shonky it used to be, so the lack of a professional sheen meant it was much easier for people to take things on there with a pinch of salt and not believe the absolute bollocks from it that some do these days
Man I wasn't even born in that era and even I miss the charm the old internet had
People nowadays forget the most crucial rule about the internet
It isn't because it is on internet that it is factually true
The sheer amount of people who sees half a thing on Facebook, Twitter or TikTok and just go panicking over it "because I saw it there!" without proper fact-checking really shows this
SHONKY? eh? what on earth is Shonky?🤣🤣
lol great point, message boards never felt like The World for me, it was a place to banter, it didn't feel like real life or had any actual implications. AOL chat rooms were places to banter and flirt maybe find a lover. Social media began to bleed into reality like the things done and said on it WERE real life and would be reviewed for the entire world to judge. This isn't just Twitter but everywhere online. The brilliant thing Google does with its social media is not necessarily connect what you say on here with your real life profile. So if I never want to engage I just don't read my notifications but if I google what I said or google I don't see a bunch of stuff connected to me.
If you tweet with your IRL name it can get back to you in a bad way.
@@anthonyortiz350 Sounds like a dorky Brit who got that as a nickname after a drunk night in college
Hopped off social media then life became so much better. Now I’m in the process of learning two new languages while getting into shape.
this also explains to me why it feels so different that i’m young enough that i don’t remember a time before the internet, but old enough that i remember pre-social media internet. at least like mainstream social media and it being talked about like in the news.
I could never put my finger on what made Forums and Bulletin Boards so much different from places like Reddit...but this explained it. Forums used to be pretty docile places with a real community, and actual community meet ups where you'd make friends with your online community--bad actors would get removed, and arguments would be dealt with by a mediator (community mod) who'd actually talk to the people having an argument...wholly and completely different from modern social media and "forums" like Reddit. Facebook has turned into a cesspool, so I don't even know if its considered social media anymore, its just a massive advertising platform. And places like Instagram and TikTok seem to be engineered to turn people into fools. I really miss the old wild west internet days.
Most forums I belonged to were a"labor of love." They didn't exist to make the owner money. They existed because the owner was passionate about the forum's topic and the community that they had built.
The downfall of these online communities was advertising, which pushed people creating online communities to try to get everyone, 100% of the online users, to their platform to maximize profits.
I think it's a respectable opinion but I also think that a lot of people is falling into a past was better falacy. Remember, everything you see in an internet device was created by another human. I do remember shitty stuff back in the 00s internet, I'm not old enough to talk about the 90s, but I've got to know pretty wild stories from my older colleagues (I'm a Network Engineer). So I think the internet in itself is not the problem. As the video said, the internet helps in amplifying what happens in the real world, so I think we as a society are the problem, we have so many structural problems and the shitty internet stuff is the consequence of that, not the root. I do believe kids shouldn't be allowed to have social media, or free internet, they should have a different type of access for educational and properly to the age recreational purposes. But, let's be real. Big tech makes a lot of money from this, nothing is going to change. My advise is you do it right with your own kids, do what you can control. It's a sign when it becomes a trend in Silicon Valley for software engineers to raise their kids in schools that don't use tech devices, and they don't allow them to go on the internet until they are like 16 or something.
This video has compiled, in the best way, everything that I have been trying to explain to the increasingly unhappy and angry crowd around me for many years. Thank you Kurzgesagt. As those who find this video helpful, I hope we are not just trying to stay in another filter bubble. 🙏🏻
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work
I feel you. I've grown up with a 56k modem 😅
I felt/feel that too around me and been constantly trying to "translate".
Regarding the "staying inside another filter bubble": what if, when we are thinking outside the box, we are actually just thinking inside another, slightly, larger box? Knowingly or unknowingly 💁🏻♀️
You and I are in the same boat. I hail from the days when there were four Lucky Charms, Han shot first, and the great vision of mankind was a VCR that was easy to program. I predate the Internet. This video summarizes everything I've seen over the course of the Information Age perfectly.
I'm a Xennial who first started using chat rooms in the 90s and then turned over to forums. Already back then I got partly addicted to it and thought that the tone and expression of views is kinda radical and doesn't reflect reality. I caught myself carrying views which I wouldn't have shared before and it started to scare me.
When social media popped up in the mid-2000s I was like wtf this is gonna kill me. I used FB for some while, but then decided to delete it. Except for youtube I'm not an any other social media right now.
I'm glad you recognize that even though my brain is stupid, I am also always right 😁
I’ve been saying this for years. Social Media was the worst thing to happen to us. I’d love the 90’s internet back.
It’s never gonna happen unfortunately. You can’t please these inflated ego billionaires.
@@AronF.while online blogs like MySpace and others don’t really exist anymore, there are still forums and blogs people run dedicated to individual interests, so you can in fact still browse those or make your own, however it’s more time consuming and requires an actual engagement and sometimes effort to use them, most people will choose platforms which doesn’t require any effort to use them whatsoever, but if online “downsizing” becomes more of a trend, we may return to some form of old internet eventually.
We traded our freedoms for ease of use. The only way to find anything was a search engine, but the company who created the best search algorithm (Google) ended up choosing where we go and what we look at. And try leaving social media; I stopped using Facebook over half a decade ago and I still have people complaining at me IRL that they sent me something time-sensitive and I didn't look at it in time.
@@RedTiger-uk4xb Amen. I feel ashamed how I have been the problem so often doing similar comments to vent my frustration about myself or the opinion of others instead of confronting what they said. (When trying to normally talk about something, one is perceived as weak, so people just comment in a snarky and "clever" way to appear superior. I hate this monkey brain of mine). So let me apologize in the name of other morons like me who have done the same to you. I'm sincerely sorry!
absolutely 100% totally agree!