i can see why from my personal experience. Even back in like 2014 I viewed YouTube as home to crackpot conspiracy theorists because of friend’s I’d seen go down YouTube rabbit holes and pretty much go crazy. Facebook and YouTube. Facebook was home to stupid image macros of stupid conspiracy theories. YouTube for crazy hyper edited conspiracy nut videos. YouTube where someone wants your email or number so they can send you a video you should watch and you learn the person you met is crazy
To this day other social media platforms have cycled in and out as conspiracy theorist and school shooters favorite platform. YouTube has never cycled out since it enabled anyone to upload video
Instagram has always been the self hate/image problems/terrible life planning thinking life after your 20s then a person gets to 30 and realize they actually want to have happy next 30 years too and they shouldn’t have spent all their money and time chasing dreams they made each day watching other people on Instagram. 6th graders with skin care routines and wanting to show off a lavish lifestyle at like 11 years old, that’s Instagram.
YouTube and Instagram are the worst to me. Facebook used to be worse than Instagram and YouTube but YouTube and Instagram have gotten more important and worse while Facebook has become less important over time while probably being just as bad as before
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
pretty sure they don’t, those last things are already (or will be?) banned for young people in Australia :(
If I hadn’t had the Internet growing up, I would have 0 (zero) positive memories of my preteen and teenage years. People who want to take that away from future generations are truly pure evil. I have no other words.