{"id":45782,"date":"2018-04-04T10:19:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45782"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:19:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T14:19:12","slug":"jk-this-is-the-worst-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=45782","title":{"rendered":"jk, this is the worst of social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, that didn\u2019t take long.\u00a0 Leave it to the internet to accept any challenge whenever anyone thinks they\u2019ve hit a low point, to somehow continue to find more ways to test peoples\u2019 opinions on humanity further.<\/span><\/p>\n

By now, I\u2019m pretty sure most people heard about how a shooter converged on YouTube\u2019s headquarters<\/a> in San Bruno, California and wounded three people before supposedly killing herself afterward.\u00a0 She was apparently really, really pissed off about how she felt like her First Amendment rights were being violated, so she flexed her Second Amendment right to bear arms and take it out on a bunch of people, most of whom probably had nothing to do with content suppression or the censorship of her stupid \u201cchannel\u201d that wasn\u2019t nearly as big of a deal as she thought it might\u2019ve been.<\/span><\/p>\n

Man, to think back in the day (2017), if you had a dispute with a company and they weren\u2019t paying you, you first try to settle it by yourself, and failing that, get a lawyer, contact the Better Business Bureau, etc., etc., and try to settle it legally.\u00a0 But nah, forget all that time-wasting shit, let\u2019s just go out and get some guns and shoot up their offices.\u00a0 That\u2019ll get you paid real<\/em> quick.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either way, yet another shooting spree on American soil just occurred, and to nobody\u2019s surprise, society\u2019s gotten so desensitized to this happening that it\u2019s pretty much already secondary news by this point.\u00a0 Probably because there weren\u2019t enough casualties save for the shooter herself, so there\u2019s not enough bleed for this story to lead, for long enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

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But aside from the obvious disturbance of another psychopath with access to firearms firing at innocent people in public for reasons that are way, way too stupid and baseless, is how the internet conducts itself in the midst of actual carnage.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s extremely fortunate that the only casualty in the incident was the one who deserved it, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever a light topic when a shooter converges on a public area with intent to fire aimlessly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Apparently, the world of social media doesn\u2019t seem to agree with it, and in an insufferable circle-jerk trifecta involving BuzzFeed, Twitter and YouTube \u201cstars,\u201d they turned Twitter into a mass minefield of confusion, misdirection, and inappropriately unfunny jokes, that did what social media does best: name drops, circle jerks, and makes everyone think they\u2019re comedians, regardless of what is actually going on.<\/span><\/p>\n

If there was ever fuel for the voted cheeto to fling around his favorite fake news<\/em> labeling, it\u2019s no more appropriate than how shitheads on the internet react when actual terrible shit is going on.\u00a0 It\u2019s because people are fucking idiots that shit like this only gets worse and creates confusion to if terrible things are actually occurring or are some farce that actually makes people second guess whether actual suffering is real or not.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wish Twitter would suspend losers bent on spreading misinformation and bad jokes, YouTube suspend any of their so-called stars to sought a tragedy as an opportunity to promote, and BuzzFeed could wait maybe 24 hours to find a more credible source to plagiarize instead of trying to accomplish something on their own and embarrass themselves.\u00a0 But of course, none of this will ever happen, and the downward spiral will continue to find new lows whenever the opportunities present themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n

But social media is a cancer on society, that much is clear.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the societal shifts to where unplugging becomes this hip trend that everyone wants to get aboard, and maybe for once, the most technologically advance iteration of the world can actually have some fucking peace and quiet for a change.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that didn\u2019t take long.\u00a0 Leave it to the internet to accept any challenge whenever anyone thinks they\u2019ve hit a low point, to somehow continue to find more ways to test peoples\u2019 opinions on humanity further. By now, I\u2019m pretty sure most people heard about how a shooter converged on YouTube\u2019s headquarters in San Bruno, … Continue reading jk, this is the worst of social media<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,156,68],"class_list":["post-45782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-social-media","tag-tragedy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45784,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45782\/revisions\/45784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}