Comment on Par for the course
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoI have found the subtle messaging in tutorials for software. They’re good at hiding it.
Comment on Par for the course
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoI have found the subtle messaging in tutorials for software. They’re good at hiding it.
coyootje@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah it’s honestly insane how much of it there is. Even channels that appear to be completely innocent at first can suddenly start veering in this direction. I remember watching someone like CinnamonToastKen when I was younger and it always used to be very generic fun for everyone content. But the last few years I started catching on to him saying more and more right leaning, conspiracy theory type stuff.
He made comments about the US (where he no longer even lives) keeps giving money to Ukraine instead of fixing their own problems, the “stolen election” and of course about Trump winning again. I really don’t understand why you have to make statements like that, you (on average) alienate about half of your audience by saying stuff like that. But oh well, a quick unsub and moving on.
PunnyName@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They may alienate half of the audience, but the other half starts dumping truckloads of money on their doorstep.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
and they are locked in thanks to the power of sunk cost fallacy
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s more like religious fervor, but later there is definitely sunk cost, or paradigm-shift lock-in.