How The Internet Ruined Society

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The rise of the internet has had many unintended effects. How has it changed our culture?
#internet #youtube
0:00 Introduction
12:37 How the internet was ruined
30:13 How the internet ruined us
Sources: pastebin.com/faeqTAcM

[@ShreddedNerd]

New editor for this video. Let me know what you think.

[@bigbosslackers]

C O A L

[@GorillionDollars]

Bone-chilling

[@mccormick9910]

Spine-tingling

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

shrimp-caressing

[@signa8]

Damn dude, this was an incredible video. Something I think that will be referenced for years to come.

[@MrBones105]

The total narrative shift from “online dating is for socially inept weirdos” to “basically the only way to date” says it all to me

[@jonoo81oont84]

I’m 42 I always talk about how any date chat line in the 90s and eventually the idea of online dating grew on us, I swear almost anyone back in the day would have said that it’s wierd, better to just go out with friends..

[@mullerreus145]

Nothing like constantly second guessing yourself in real life because it's been beaten into you that approaching women is a thing rapists do. Billions must write the same 4 unfunny pick up lines on tinder hoping for a reply because saying "hello" isn't good enough for some reason.

[@RustieFawn]

The narrative shift from “if you spend your Friday or Saturday nights playing video games you’d be looked at as a future serial killer” to “that’s normal and what most kids do now” says it all for me.

[@nuggle6400]

@@RustieFawnthe phenomenon of being bullied for liking video games as a kid for it to them go on to be arguably the largest and most popular entertainment medium is not at all talked about enough. Year 7 I got shit talked for playing CS:S and “liking that nerd shit”, year 9 everyone had Xbox’s and were playing cod. And people wonder why “normies”, “casuals”, or whatever you want to call them are so disliked. They are exactly the people who abused people who enjoyed the internet and played video games. Still blows my mind.

[@lenargilmanov7893]

Web search is broken: it either shows you SEO-boosted garbage or large websites that pay for ads. With search being broken, nobody can find your personal webpage anymore, if you're not on some big platform like Twitter or KZbin, it might as well not exist. And the worst of all is that the normies are okay with this.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

How the hell do I find personal webpages

[@hombreg1]

Funnily enough, I stumbled upon a cool personal page some days ago. I was looking for a high quality lossless digital copy of an old Japanese DnB album.

[@k4rzl]

IT'S PAYNE! WHACK HIM!

[@veto_5762]

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 I recommend yo investigating about the web revival project, also you could check places like neocities and explore the link sections some people put in their sites. The best way to find nonmainstream sites is to stop caring too much about mainstream media, the more you stop caring about the numbers in the screen the more you will stop try to seek for popular social media and be open to try other options.

[@virtualwastrel289]

Use other search engines

[@SlashManEXE]

You’re right on the money when it comes to sponsor-safe baby talk. How can people seriously talk about real, life changing events with terms like “essayed” or “unalived”?

[@donnylurch4207]

It's very aggravating. I understand video makers do this to avoid getting demonetized, so I absolutely blame youtube for refusing to take the slightest risk to raking in advertiser dollars, but where I blame the creators is in how they choose to censor. A lot of them will just cut the audio out whenever a no-no word is spoken, but they don't flash it onscreen in text or anything! I genuinely don't know what was said sometimes, or my brain doesn't register there was a skip at all. I'm pretty sure you can show a word written out and get away with it, or just censor one letter like "S*X" if you must.

[@TheSundayShooter]

"Getting South Africa'd" "He KSG'd himself" ツ

[@ultratheman]

@thesundayshooter7763 "he 'acked himself" instead of "he committed suicide"

[@Sneedboy]

@@ultrathemannooo, you have to use baby talk like me- ACK

[@Dogman262]

@@TheSundayShooterKek

[@alyssarichardson2544]

The tolerance of normies using the internet and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race...

[@ChudDin]

true

[@gruzi.]

the call is coming from inside the house bro

[@user-gt7vi9jm9m]

It's funny, one day we will be the "normies" one we figure out virtual reality more in depth. Why, because we take breaks from it.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

*species

[@phatz7269]

Hope you're including yourself in that statement "normie".

[@chadkirk925]

I was born in 1994. I started using the internet in like 2002 or 2003 probably. It was really fun. Ebaumsworld, Gaia Online, GameFAQs, KZbin, 4chan, uStream, etc. Around 2016 the internet basically died. Even Vine had this grassroots feel. Once literally EVERYONE started using the internet it died. I remember when knowing what a meme was made you a total outcast.

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

I am a newer internet user but I can see how the internet of old was more niche and community driven

[@rubenvd3913]

Born in 1986, online since 1997. The internet had many deaths. For me, the worst moment was 2007, when the iPhone and Facebook were launched. It started the influx of millions who just use social media on their phones.

[@chesterstevens8870]

I remember a time when 4chan was considered the frothing headwaters of meme culture. Everything was niche, and nobody would explain shit to you. If you wanted to understand the funny picture you had to lurk, you had to develop thick skin and be ready to endure a few barbs and jabs from the community. Now you have channels like LIMC, and sites like KYM, that just explain everything to you. Any idiot with a smart phone can upload a picture to iFunny or meme generator and pump out some low-effort trash. It's all so diluted and commodified, it's taken the fun put of everything. Makes me want to puke.

[@energeticyellow1637]

​@@chesterstevens8870The moment 4chan stopped being the heart of the internet is the moment the internet died.

[@drearmouse9510]

Feel like the issue moreso lies with social media companies trying to psychologically manipulate you into using their services 24/7 as opposed to everyone simply being on the web, though it was nice when it was more niche and everyone didn't flock to the same 5 sites for everything.

[@lumendrake2265]

I think the real reason 4chan is still standing and so easily accessible is because it's a paradise for media shilling and honeypotting

[@GiovanniderBosewicht]

Cia wants you!

[@dedli_midi]

noooo its because its the last bastion of fr33 sp33ch d00d

[@eleven99]

It's been like that since 2016. The site has gone down the shitter since with the pornspam.

[@Mamimigaming]

4cuck lost

[@Dogman262]

Le demoralization forum

[@MoronicRoc]

That part of not having any privacy really spoke to me on a personal level. I've always hated the concept of a permanent record, as I don't like having to stress about everything to make sure I don't slip up.

[@Allen.Christian]

Personally, I'm not as bothered by the record being permanent as I am by the fact that I have no rights or ownership when it comes to MY records.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

The panopticon...

[@anomonyous]

That's what it's like living under an authoritarian police state regime. Every single breath you take is noted, filed, stored, saved, copied, stamped, copied again, and redistributed to go through the system 2 more times. Welcome to your dystopian globalist hellhole. Enjoy your stay.

[@godoforder1828]

Fr fr Cant even be virulently racist anymore it sucks ass

[@opticalsalt2306]

I always feel like I’m living to impress someone else instead of myself, which is definitely a twisted way of living. Maybe it’s due to less privacy but I get more and more sick of not getting any alone time. I feel alone but I never get to relax for more than 2 hours nowadays other than sleep.

[@KapethiaMonan]

Burning: slow Spine: tingled

[@Randomlollis]

Genre: defined

[@Jesion-kv9tu]

Emotion: drained

[@yuh1180]

Slow: burned

[@merucrypoison296]

Bwc: milked

[@camilogonzalez2879]

Buck: broken

[@drearmouse9510]

Back in the 90s when my home phone rang, I was curious and happy to see who was on the other end, but nowadays, when my ringtone goes off, I jump and hesitantly check the number assuming it's either a scam call or some other terrible shit that'll ruin my day. RIP sanity.

[@opticalsalt2306]

I never thought about it like that but damn, if that isn’t the sad truth.

[@CVP-og9pw]

​@@opticalsalt2306Oh yeah, i remember using public phone cabins and buying 10 € phone cards to use at home to call relatives from europe to america for like 5 mins, now if the phone rings its just for ads. Same with mail, only letters that arrive are bills

[@2Siders]

I feel like that’s also just adulting. You rarely got bad calls as a kid. Nowadays I don’t even want to see the fucking postman, bringer of dark words.

[@Legend57.]

My phone is permanently on silent. I've conditioned everyone around me not to expect me to answer and I will get back to them when I get back to them.

[@drearmouse9510]

@@Legend57. Amen brother. May have to start doing that myself.

[@romanium365]

4:45 "Couldn't manage it in real life, so they need a screen for protection." This is so true. There are people who are so shy in real life, or are scared of a social interaction, yet are willing to happily discuss everything and anything when in front of a screen, talking or texting.

[@HarambaeXelonmuskfans]

Average discord user

[@igotshotandimdying2137]

There's a relevant saying - "Give a man a mask and he'll show his true face"

[@alexxx4434]

Veil of anonymity.

[@karenwang313]

I was like that in high school so it's hard for me to judge people for that kind of behavior too much. A lot of blame needs to be placed on parents and teachers for doing such a terrible job in socializing children.

[@kagenotatsumaki]

That's me. No hesitation to just type a comment online and give my opinion, but can't bring myself to just speak like that IRL...

[@Shmeky.]

You WILL watch the 1 hour long video of souls bosses beating pve enemies and comparing their powerful stats in a video and you WILL be happy(its game of the year)

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

With 2x speed you can watch it in 30 minutes instead

[@Shmeky.]

@diegodankquixote-wry3242 and increase hp and health so the fight is mote fair for the early game bosses(don't tell the souls fans and pvsrs that their game is flawed they will call you a femboy)

[@ThatGuy-ky2yf]

​@@Shmeky.Souls fans constantly denigrate DS2, Demons Souls and the PvP imbalance boss repeats of Elden Ring. If anything I'm sick of bloated video essays of people not making their minds up about DS2 among other things lol.

[@Shmeky.]

@ThatGuy-ky2yf don't forgot people calling elden ring a masterpiece and make essays about it without mentioning the fact they could improve on the multiplayer despite the fact they've been making the same game for 10 years with no improvements on the pvp.

[@goosewithagibus]

​@@ThatGuy-ky2yfpeople DO make up their minds though. Just cause there's a varied opinion from multiple sources doesn't mean people haven't made up their mind. I'm also not sure why you'd be "sick" of it. Do you rely on other people to determine your opinion on things?

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

We once burnt the library of Alexandria, and now it burns us...

[@Salantor]

We did not, it was a gradual process, and it is unlikely that we really lost anything. Not in the way that most of the early internet was lost.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

@@Salantor Did your mother eat bread crust at all while you were in-utero?

[@Salantor]

@@georgelincolnrockwell6248 Well done sir, very insulting, 2/10.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

@@Salantor Seriously, where are you on the spectrum? ADHD-misdiagnosed divorce baby or rain man/chris chan lovechild?

[@Francesco-gf1sv]

Good poem

[@Gamerteamguy]

Ah, I see you are in your video essays about the internet phase of your channel.

[@moistquasar3572]

Colon tingling, genre defining, video essays perhaps

[@Sqdlow]

The streamer react content

[@sedeuphadude80]

@@Sqdlowyou will watch your favorite streamer watch and add nothing to a video essay documentary and you will like it!

[@Sweet9964]

have you ever gone to a restaurant that had a huge menu? you open it and there's like 100 different things to choose from. It's so overwhelming that you just look for a dish that you're familiar with and order that, to save you the hassle of reading 4 pages of different entrées. That's basically what the internet has done to us, and makes it very hard for the average, unaware person to actually use it to educate themselves.

[@Go_away__]

I live under the mindset that every single person on the internet is factually wrong, socially inept, and emotionally stunted. If you take any kind of interaction online as a personally defining attribute of your identity, then you're probably putting too much weight into what these complete strangers think of a situation you're far too uninformed on.

[@jhoneism]

What really sucks is most people who don’t acknowledge this subject won’t have the attention span to watch this video

[@deriznohappehquite]

Also worth noting that the internet is dead, and most activity is composed of bots, not humans.

[@girlfriendcita]

specially in 4chan

[@phylocybe_]

Yeah these “”new”” chatbots that can perfectly mimic human speech have definitely existed for at least a few decades if not longer. Demon magic n shit if you know what I mean.

[@asdf-sr1ny]

good riddance i fucking hated it

[@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943]

​@@phylocybe_ Nice Blame profile picture.

[@phylocybe_]

@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 goated blame enjoyer

[@melgibsonafter5beers329]

People often ignore the mental illness feedback loop / greenhouse effect that results from the entire world being terminally online. Before the advent of mass communication the "feebleminded," antisocial elements of a nation were often institutionalized or kept out of "polite society," rather than given a flood of endless affirmation & overstimulation.

[@DSPsWifesBf]

I think there should be a middle ground. Let people be, but don’t encourage mental illness like a lot social media tends to

[@yeetleskeelte3460]

The Internet is saved, billions must post

[@simonkorica9467]

Uppercase I Internet comment, day reinvigorated.

[@coregod109]

The fact that it's basically 50/50 if a piece of text you read online was posted by a human or a bot should tell you enough about the state of these bigger platforms everything is completely astro-turfed and there is almost no organic discussion. Stick to the forums bros

[@EggEnjoyer]

Ha. You think the forums are safe? Just accept that the internet is fake.

[@coregod109]

@@EggEnjoyer yeah they're affected too but don't have algorithms filtering content so it's easier to spot but you're right it's all going to shit they will have the normies talking to some Hall of mirrors of AI bots with the sole purpose of getting them to interact with marketing and shopping content

[@Beef3D]

out of priciple to not let myself be completely consumed by brainrot, I actively resist youtube shorts or any other social media trying to emulate tiktok slop. I hope my fellow nerds here do the same.

[@YOTSUBA_desu]

"slop" You've already let the worst aspects of 4chan brainrot you and you haven't realized it

[@Beef3D]

@@YOTSUBA_desu alright mister anime profile picture, explain how using the word "slop" somehow already IS tantamount to me having been consumed by brainrot... I'm very curious now.

[@vermin5367]

Sadge and garbtroughed

[@phylocybe_]

I kept getting sucked into the KZbin shorts pipeline until I realized how miserable I felt afterwards and even during it.

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@YOTSUBA_desu>anime pfp >"YOTSUBA_desu" as name >Annoyed by 4chan brainrot I don't know if this should go into /a/ for the amount of anime it has, in /x/ for the absolute obliviousness of the OP, or in /LGBT/ due to how much coal it contains

[@sunglasses3793]

One thing I’d like to add in is that it feels like the internet forces you to have an opinion on everything. Otherwise you are deemed as a “centrist fence sitter”. I hate it because if you do talk about something you have little to no knowledge on then you are called an idiot who doesn’t know what they are talking about. You can’t win.

[@gametech4101]

The internet is the kingdom of echo chambers. There are too many biases

[@EpicGamer-fl7fn]

Everything has to be a debate in the internet And i mean EVERYTHING. You cant just have normal conversations, now its a debate where you have to have arguments and witty roasts towards your opponent.

[@melodysafo5437]

So true!

[@StupidJellyfish]

Best video you've ever made. I could see schools using it for educational purposes. It explains the basic and established consensus on the internet's effects and its foreseeable consequences in an entertaining and eloquent way. Good work.

[@LucasPappasRTO0]

My thoughts precisely!

[@AirConditioner-gv6jn]

Hell yeah man. This video really explained the internet as a whole. How it kinda altered humanity in so many different ways and the inconceivable changes it has yet to bring unto the human condition. Really thought-provoking learning material!

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

This almost makes up for the ADS video. Almost.

[@liamv9556]

This video goes very hard love from Kazakhstan I hate normies and corporations so much it's unreal

[@ultratheman]

@@uraniumeaterr ummmm...... sisters?????

[@danielutriabrooks477]

​@@ultratheman*cisters

[@raven75257]

​@@uraniumeaterrstop being racist

[@wafers35]

@@uraniumeaterras a Latinx person I disavow this post.

[@gunner6094]

@@raven75257 No

[@user-qjvqfjv]

I quit social media two years ago, totally deleted my accounts. I'm so much happier today.

[@opticalsalt2306]

I say that, but I always find a way back on KZbin.

[@user-qjvqfjv]

@@opticalsalt2306 KZbin isn't social media. It's a video hosting site.

[@Mister_Domm]

I wanna quit Discord, but there are projects I’m a part of and friends I talk to. EDIT: I quit now

[@GangstaFred_528-CASH]

Same. Literally lost IRL friends because of it. It isn't as if they don't have my phone number either. I almost never get a call or text except from one really close friend. Yet back when I was on Instagram it would've almost been a constant stream sending shit daily in a group chat or dm. Idk if they just hate me or what...?😅

[@real1mem3s]

You're literally on KZbin right now

[@gorillafan6]

I was literally just thinking about how I wanted to watch a new shredded nerd video

[@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999]

same man, i've been thinking lately about how lame the modern internet has become.

[@moistquasar3572]

The system grows stronger every second

[@simonkorica9467]

Microship doing wonders.

[@opalander]

The internet ultimately forgets compassion and nuance. It's completely neurotic how one mistake will get you hated by everyone for life.

[@Wilhelm4131]

I think subconsciously most people don't see people as people on the internet. Even when you see someone on the street you will be more connected to them rather then some rando online.

[@ElUltimoLeviathan7901]

​@@Wilhelm4131 internet brings out the worst in us

[@MrAaaaazzzzz00009999]

before this video i didnt know that MOST people actually use dating apps to find a partner. I've always considered that to be for losers and thought that generally still was the consensus lol.

[@higgsbonbon]

Paying for the privilege of getting swiped left is definitely for losers.

[@harrisbrown6800]

You're close-minded and out of touch.

[@ThePhantomGodofNight]

@@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101 well i think most people are too busy fulfilling their societal expectations to stop and think about stuff like that. so yeah most people are just cattle. sheeple.

[@johnroyal4054]

​@dihvocfoscocudvyvdd8101 I live in mid size town. All of our social spots died after the 90s. There is no where for my friends and I to go anymore. Sure you could go to the seedy bars like the one I got assaulted in but meeting some one worth dating in a bar Is a long shot.

[@user-sz3nd8hi1c]

In fact these are very handy as people work & study more than ever and don't have the time/energy for dating.

[@TheSaival]

To be honest im really glad for the fact that I got to experience pre 2010 internet. It was glorious. And it will never come back.

[@TechHarmonic]

☹️ so true!

[@melodysafo5437]

Same

[@gruzi.]

oh my science! an hour long video essay by a fellow vryvn sistah! you won the internet today!

[@ranfan1820]

A truly profound spine tingling bone chilling highly original video about the internet

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

My heteroflexible life partner was crying xer eyes out by the ending

[@cloudy1723]

Snopes verified gem

[@ramealium]

dear sagaan XWABAG this gemerald can define my genre any day

[@rebralhunter6069]

Alright boys say it with me now......The industrial revolution and its consequences.....

[@Beef3D]

...were a disaster for the human race!

[@Hecklemysheckel]

Kaczinsky is severely overrated

[@Leviathan399]

Have been a disaster for the human race

[@rebralhunter6069]

@@Hecklemysheckel doesn't mean he wasn't right about an assortment of things.

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

Uncle Ted didn't kill himself! He was killed because they were worried that the 'new sincerity', corpo-AI push would cause people to reach out to him and cause his ideas to catch new flame!

[@RasmusKarlJensen]

I miss forums, bros…

[@gloriascientiae7435]

Same I say that all the time but hardly anybody seems to remember 😭

[@mrconroy4672]

If web3 doesn’t provide that or anything valuable/sustainable long term we are officially screwed.

[@harrisbrown6800]

So you can make one sentence comments like this?

[@door_productions4896]

​@@harrisbrown6800Take that thong out yo bussy playa

[@gloriascientiae7435]

@@harrisbrown6800 ✅

[@Aegxs]

Very high quality video that respects our intelligence while being able to call a spade a spade

[@georgelincolnrockwell6248]

SHIIIIIEEEEETTTTT

[@merucrypoison296]

>spade for a spade Q ♠️

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

@@merucrypoison296 HWNBAG

[@Mightydoggo]

We have a friend of the family, who is a nuclear physicist. He can literally tell you how to build a nuclear reactor down to the details, but he is not capable of calling himself a taxi to go home. Now this guy was autistic afaik, but that kinda reminds me on a lot of younger people in my family today. They´re Specialized to the teeth in one or two certain areas they learned in school and university, to a point where they could start a business around this particular topic. But they still lack a fundamental understanding of the basic topics even adjacent to their area of expertise. It´s a hyper specialization issue and I don´t see this going away with the way how schools today work. Or better how they don´t. Throw a degrading social society and melting of real vs fake information and you got the perfect storm for a completely inapt society in the near future.

[@sedeuphadude80]

Hyperspecialization could hurt society. You'll have all these people who want to do one thing, but don't have a Plan B that's another job.

[@Byzantine-Revolt]

I am a Faustian Wigger

[@sylonogwailou]

Respect.

[@mullerreus145]

One thing I despise is how people talk in real life using exclusively meme references or this weird “therapy” talk. Constantly talking about “red flags” “gaslighting” “Not me doing X” “Me when I Y”. The thought of people going about real life about ten years ago speaking in 4chan references would be unthinkable, and now real life is just Twitter and Instagram talk. People's vocabularies are atrocious now, and they literally don't know how to write properly when needing to. In about a century, books from 1900 will be completely unreadable for most average people because everything is getting condensed, sanitised and streamlined. On top of that, being sociable and outgoing is becoming more and more frowned upon and rare. People take pride in being anti-social, being unable to go outside due to anxiety, staying in every night etc. It's depressing thinking about what the next fifty years will bring, and how retarded we'll make ourselves because attention spans and social ability has been reduced to nothing. The worst thing is that even if you want to unplug yourself, delete social media and whatnot you end up isolating yourself because fucking nobody else just uses their phone as a phone any more. You might only be able to talk to people on social media, and you will never randomly meet your friends or even make new ones by going out by yourself because approaching anybody is creepy and rapey (if a woman).

[@ralphbelmondo]

I'm glad you pointed out how people are starting to use watered down euphemisms for "bad" words in order to avoid getting demonitized. Equally worse is seeing how commenters are emulating that same behavior for no real reason or obfuscating those words by changing letters to symbols (ex. d1e instead of die). I never thought 13375p3ak would make a comeback these days, but it seems corporate censorship made that a reality.

[@Mister_Domm]

KZbinrs do need to be payed though if they want to continue entertaining their audience

[@simonpetrikov3992]

@@Mister_Dommwell the standards are too high since the fcc is less strict compared to KZbin guidelines

[@DaughterofDiogenes]

About 20 years ago in high school I had a friend obsessed with Japan. He would talk about it all the time and studies so much about their culture. He’s the one who first told me about hikikomori. He posited that they had gotten too technologically advanced for their own good and it was causing a schism in their culture and the growth of the hikkomori. I think about that guy all the time these days.

[@alexanderleuchte5132]

Charlie Brooker's series "How TV Ruined Your Life " is completely here on KZbin, as old as it is it is still entertaining and still holds a lot of truth

[@MJS-lk2ej]

"perhaps everyone now is a loser" yep, just look at the rise of the Chad and Sigma memes. this video opens (and from the thumbnail/title) as a seemingly generic technology is bad return to monkey style, but develops in to a more nuanced discussion, that I ultimately agree with. what I am trying to say is, the first part of this video is framed kind of weird, but the rest is really good and well thought out, good Job man.

[@Mo-fx2ud]

Reddit is down the hall and to the left

[@zzz66688]

@@Mo-fx2ud4chan is near the end of the hall way and then there are another two doors at the end of the hallway which leads to 8chan and kiwifarms. The jailer lost the keys to those two doors though.

[@graye2799]

If you dont care about politics. Then someone else will and will be able to influence society.

[@audiosurfarchive]

"And yet you use The Internet! Curious!"

[@wingsofunlimitedpepsi6817]

*Adjusts glasses*

[@ramealium]

opens photo album of forbes/vox article headline screenshots

[@degenerieren7479]

One of the worst parts of internet culture is the inability to take anything seriously. Everything has to be caked in a sort of apathetic irony.

[@cultreader9751]

That was the case on "wild west" sites like 4chan back in the day, too, though. It's not a cause of decline.

[@opticalsalt2306]

Yeah, that’s a real pain point for me. Whenever I ask someone something introspective, or serious… radio silence. But when I want to be funny and troll? Response in literal seconds.

[@reviewspiteras]

The part at 33:50 where the guy denies porn addiction as dismiss it as a Christian invention is disgusting. These people want everyone else to sink to the lowest of the lows, but what did I expected from a profile with a fursona as a profile pic

[@Ceeeeee451]

The problem is people throw the term "porn addiction" at literally any enjoyment of the human form. It's been reduced to a buzzword /pol/ uses.

[@reviewspiteras]

​@@Ceeeeee451 I understand that is used as an insult in bad faith but "enjoyment of the human figure" is a cop out. We are not "enjoying the beauty of the human figure" like artist on the past did; we are masturbating to it

[@higgsbonbon]

​@@reviewspiterasYou mean both sides are being disingenuous and self-righteous for imaginary good boy points? Imagine my shock!

[@reviewspiteras]

​@@higgsbonbon I am not saying that at all. I am saying that we must not dismiss the problem of porn addiction because a lot of people of both political sides tell people "coomers" which in a lot of cases is actually true.

[@88mastered]

@@Ceeeeee451 Of course the guy with the tranime pfp screeches about /pol/ out of nowhere.

[@verbalviper]

Everyone agrees with this. Everyone will remain the same. I think now only crises will change us.

[@m-seb]

The reason for centralization is simple: convenience. Running a forum, paying for server hosting, having to make webpages etc is a hassle. Reddit, Discord etc. do something similar to their old internet counterparts for free (read: for your data and stripping you of actual control).

[@krzysztofd9761]

15:10 that chair screech

[@taterc229]

The internet has fallen; billions must log off.... Also, smart phones are scrying mirrors so it's not surprising people become terminally online

[@isabellauribe7520]

I’m really curious to know your thoughts on how smart phone screens work as scything mirrors!

[@taterc229]

@@isabellauribe7520 they literally show you what you desire and the glass is black 😉

[@XVXC-M8]

The internet is over, billions must live like 99% of human existence pre internet

[@Mrcharrio]

I've been slowly walking away from an Online Presence or Social Media usage past Watching Movies or Videos. I'm sure I'm being left behind in many things but my Mind and my heart feel better so Fair Trade I guess. I just wish people could try and walk away rather than cling to it for dear life.

[@opticalsalt2306]

I never realized how hyper competitive, and petty things like instagram were until I threw them away literal weeks ago. People looking at my profile, posting oddly specific things on their story, “friends only” stories, the ability to hide dms. I feel much more at peace and I have MUCH more time for school. “Went from all c’s, to pretty much straight A student again for the first time since ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, I’m in 12th grade now. I do genuinely believe this is ruining kids, and I blame the parents of these kids.

[@marinazinovic2113]

Amazing video, very well informed and argued. Particularly loved the calling out of ideological echo-chambers on all sides, this is a phenomena that consumes many people today sadly and eliminates their ability to actually question narratives and should be talked about more. Would love to see you do a in depth video on that topic.

[@cowking1st]

I miss internet 1.0 in lot of ways. Every website had Avery distinct personality and algorithm trying to plug into your brain didn't exist. Finding the good stuff one internet took talking to people either virtually or irl.

[@alexxx4434]

"Web surfing" was a thing

[@SlapstickGenius23]

I have seen websites come and go.

[@LucasPappasRTO0]

Sincerely, extremely nuanced and highly thought provoking video! Rarely do I ever comment on anything here on youtube, however, I really felt like I had to this time. I have been following you for a while now, Shredded Nerd, generally because I like the way you present your ideas and *mostly* agree with your gaming takes, but this one took it a step further, by giving a detail-rich and fresh take on serious issues societies around the world are facing. I shall actually be sharing this video with those who might listen, perhaps it can lead others into useful time reflecting as well, like it did with me. Seriously, bravo!

[@GhostGum]

Good ass video

[@GenericName23]

gump

[@person3231]

This video was incredibly insightful. Do you recommend any further reading on any of these subjects? I am particularly interested in the "fast-politics" culture, and the over-emphasis on rhetoric. Genuinely, thank you for making this video.

[@loke801]

“Amusing Our Selfs To Death” kind of covers that but with TV. It’s an order book from 1985 but you could probably take the ideas the ideas he presents there and apply them to the internet.

[@person3231]

@@loke801 Thank you. Ill give that a look. Its really scary how important repercussions of things like entertainment were under my nose the whole time lol

[@ntsakomathebula4840]

Planescape torment has been called the most "Philosophical game of all time" the writer Chris Avellone has confirmed he was just writing a story he thought was interesting, and fans are reading to deep into it". Death of the Author or what I call the Jacob Geller affect, yes affect, that has been my pet peeve of the internet for the past 5yrs

[@higgsbonbon]

There's a pandemic of pseudointellectualism, exacerbated by academia's insistence on 'personal truth'.

[@mrcin1233]

Nice to see that I can make a story with like few refrence's to gnosticism and Carl Jung's psychology and bunch off brainlets will worship it like a new Bilbe. It motivate's me sooo much

[@ntsakomathebula4840]

@@mrcin1233 Make sure its about a Nintendo game, like a niche one, there's this one called Zelda, i dont know if you heard about it

[@Dr0dd]

@@mrcin1233 my friend showed me Tool and that's how I felt about it (and to be fair here you can just enjoy them for the music itself, he didn't even seem to know what their lyrics mean and just likes the sound.)

[@mikeoxmall69420]

​@@Dr0dd"we are a turtle, all this penis an illusion" or something idk

[@ProGremlinPlayer]

You articulated everything I have wrong with the internet in this one video, congrats.

[@awedsilent943]

Instantly destroyed subscription icon. This has to be the most in depth and accurate video fitting into beliefs I’ve had in my own echo chamber for years…but couldn’t ever put to words. Fantastic and fascinating. Thank you.

[@LadyAmalthea0615]

"Don't be fooled by the internet. It's cool to get on the computer. Don't let the computer get on you. It's fun to use the computer. Don't let the computer use you. You all saw the Matrix. There's a war going on. The battlefield's in the mind and the prize is the soul, so just be careful. Be careful." -Prince 1999

[@mrcin1233]

You will watch 3 hours long video essay about a manga that nobody heard about and how it changed the presone reviewing it for better ( reinforces ther left-wing views) , the deep psychological and realistic panic attack's with struggel that lesbian relationship face. *You will praise it in the comments*

[@latviandragon2718]

i avoid those kinds of videos like the plague

[@wingsofunlimitedpepsi6817]

“Homophobic much”

[@hihihi1q23]

You will, however, watch a 20 minute video of a 50 year old man telling you why [insert game/movie/tv show here] is woke and bad, and why you should instead donate to his subscribestar and buy his merch to be based and fight against wokeism!

[@Wint3rSalt]

@@hihihi1q23We’re all apart of a cog that we never seem to fully get out of, may god have mercy for future generations.

[@ManWithFace]

Who are you quoting?

[@Thexpertoneverything]

Excellent video. I can very much relate. Having been there from the beginning remembering the wild west era of internet.

[@loreleibrewer3803]

Love the original D1 soundtrack halfway through the vid. Thank you for this video essay... it's always a treat to listen to thought-provoking things while slogging through work

[@Devilm4n-cw8tv]

Just caught up with the latest skibidi toilet lore video *sigh* i guess I'll just watch this

[@yuh1180]

Skibidi bros, did we just lost?

[@dkskcjfjswwwwwws413]

skibidi toilet is cinema and anyone who disagrees watches troondust

[@reviewspiteras]

"The algorithm brain: you know lets listen to molchat doma and plastic love while talking about biblical accurate angels, walkable cities and anolog horror". All this video is worth the time just to listen to this quote

[@wolliveryoutube]

Dude I’m losing my marbles over this kind of stuff. I’m so sick of hearing bots and teenagers vomit forth garbled nonsense about Hbomberguy exposing plagiarism, Spider-man “canon events,” “my brother in Christ” touching grass, or when the average discord moderator when he grooms femboys on reddit. I’m going insane, it’s time to escape the internet

[@EndingNote111]

Phenomenal video that goes into a lot of things I have had in mind but didn't exactly know how to express

[@ishowbiz]

I love that in the scary hacker stock footage at 5:02 you can see the youtube video player on the "terminal"

[@Windowlick_]

Just wait until SN finds out about Spandrell's concept of IQ shredders...

[@Enjoirules4u]

Thanks algorithm for feeding me this essay which has now radically changed my mind from being a thoughtless consumer to a rational ascetic anti-algorithmic! I'm going to watch exclusively videos now about Uncle Ted and living off-grid! Jk but good vid.

[@InternetTAB]

Bro how'd you resist placing that "dangerous to our democracy" news anchor montage/collage about halfway through

[@KennyFrierson]

My mom is very tech savoy but she still asks me how to do certain things. Never even crossed my mind that my future kid would ask me similar questions.

[@firstconsulvergil4200]

In a sea of goyslop this channel is a beacon.

[@111paolo2]

Bacon*

[@Monarchy1425]

I find ironic how in a age where we have nearly all human knowledge at the tips of our fingers, there's still people who don't even know the culture that surround them. I mean young people who don't even know who were the Beatles, never even heard of Kubrick, or Einstein, Walt Disney, etc, important people of history who shaped our modern culture.

[@maynot]

The modern culture they were born into was internet culture.

[@marketville]

Lol Walt Disney is not important. He was an unimaginative idiot

[@inputVOID]

I stumbled across your content and found this video. While I disagreed with a small portion of it, some of what I disagreed with offered a new perspective I hadn’t considered. Very good stuff.

[@cicero7409]

This is one of the best videos on this topic I have ever seen. Your analysis of 4chan was extreamly interesting. Well done.

[@kadorwarehouse]

I really resonate with what you said. People wanting to be right rather than seeking truth actually weakened my mind over the years, they dont want an answer or correction, and everytime i tried to argue in good faith it ended in disappointment. Today i feel weary, unable to articulate, probably because of self preservation, against those masses of people flooding the internet with wrong information opposed to my beliefs, but also in real life encounters. I became alienated by internet, and failed to react accordingly.

[@olso8621]

Sounds like autism.

[@coolawesomeepicman4513]

This was a video I have been waiting for. I this is why everyone brings back the good ol’ days. It was never about the society back then, it was the COMMUNITY. I don’t want to talk to people through a computer I can fit in my pocket, I want to feel like a brick in a wall, supporting others around me and others supporting me.

[@prabhdeepsingh5642]

Wow. This is a really deel and thoughtful analysis of internet. Especially, the last 20 minutes is pure gold. 👏👏

[@magimon91834]

This is a spectacular video. I hope you channel keeps going in this direction

[@drk2face]

This video made me pretty sad. I yearn greatly for the internet of 15, 10 and even 5 years ago. LiveLeak going down is particularly sad because they documented the harsh reality of the world in a way no other site did. They did a great job of straddling the line between raw journalism and gratuitous shock content. The fate of the internet seems to be an endless spiral towards the worst possible outcomes. The period between 1996 and 2016 will likely be seen as the last era of truly free speech in Western society. The mass censorship brought on in the wake of the Trump and Brexit campaigns has created a "chilling effect" where people avoid discussing anything remotely controversial. Non mainstream voices have been marginalized. The algorithms are designed to push you increasingly low quality content and favor large, corporate creators over small, independent ones.

[@emperor2596]

I was born in in 1997 and while I used the internet very rarely (at school sometimes) I really became an online degenerate in 2010 it’s so insane how different and controlled the web is now like I remember 2016 the year where you could say anything you wanted everyone on KZbin was at war and you cold just sit and enjoy it man I wish I could go back

[@damian9303]

I used to miss the drama channels from that time, but ever since Logan Paul went to that “unaliving” forest and filmed some hung corpse it has become heavily sanitized for if you don’t want to risk demonetization or outright shadowbanning

[@Ares_gaming_117]

This gives a good glimpse into The Information War. Top notch work

[@fionnaskyborn]

Fantastic video. Risked some quality sleep to watch this in its entirety because it was very clearly made with a lot of care about the subject discussed. Unfortunately, due to the state in which I have watched this video, I can offer little more than this at the moment, but do know that every moment of this was brilliant. I'll leave a more thorough and detailed comment tomorrow, most likely. For now, though, thank you for making this video, and thank you for addressing these issues in a meaningful way.

[@theequalizer694]

We just simply weren’t ready for it and honestly, I don’t think we ever would be.

[@maskisland2]

Extremely underrated video and channel.

[@satluszair7858]

Beautiful video, wow, haven't seen something this good in a while.

[@ddlc_monika]

Great Summary. I still remember getting Internet in 2005 and tons of my time was wasted as an underage moderator in an anime online forum. Most people used the off-topic tabs to be teenagers. Compared to today, nobody was afraid to write long texts. You knew your community so you put some effort in, well also for some imaginary internet points. The amount of people curious enough to seek new knowledge and at the same time selfless enough to share what they gathered is dwindling because you can't just do anything out of "thought it would be good", most of the times when you need to get something out there you are cockblocked by nobody going to your page because you didn't bow to googles page rank, the few people you shared the link with skip it due to mucho texto, and 90% of the people at my workplace have a fucking netflix account because they were too lazy to surf some youtube for channels to find and NEED the old comfy feeling of TV they still grew up with. I miss sharing knowledge. Nowadays all video games are solved in the span of one-two days, all hobbies have guides online you can just follow, there is little to no exploration anymore. Most ideas are regurgitated. Tons of "creators" on this butthole of a site shit out videos which make me feel add NOTHING I couldn't expect or wouldn't conclude myself. But I was pretty happy to see this video at least sum it up neatly and accurately to maybe motivate some people out there to just try out something new in their lives, or shut off all the shit and hear theirselves think for the first time in ages between work and "playtime". Or work and work simulator in my case due to being too German for fun.

[@RyeBreadGangster]

I do think Facebook will fall in my lifetime. It’s used religiously by people 40 and over. But younger generations are checking out of that site entirely.

[@Salantor]

Yeah, to spend their days watching Tik-Tok, which might be arguably worse.

[@EggEnjoyer]

These companies dont make as much money as you think and are instead primarily held up via financial capital and investment. So these giants can and will fall rapidly at some point, most likely in your life time. They're all bubbles.

[@RyeBreadGangster]

@@Salantor Agreed. My point was not that younger generations are saved. TikTok is really bad. KZbin being slightly lesser evil (but with their YT Shorts they are clearly headed that way). My point was more that these companies aren’t too big to fail. I used MySpace religiously once. And jumped ship with everyone else on the bandwagon. I think we are seeing a slower death than MySpace. But a death all the same.

[@DamianOchramowicz]

It is insane, how these algorithms can get to you when you are depressed or in any other way down mentally. I remember how my previous relationship started to go down the downward spiral. Suddenly I started to see Hbomberguy, Ben Shapiro, Contrapoints, PragerU and all that shit in my recommended videos. It was like KZbin scented my vulnerabilities and started testing which rabbit hole I was more likely to go. When my (at the time) girlfriend broke up with me in 2019 I became full on insufferable woke grifter. And let me tell you, it is so much easier to consume another video about how capitalism is bad and totally a heckin root of my problems, instead of dealing with what problems actually are. So anyway, in 2021 I started therapy, and then in 2022 I took shrooms and combination on these two (and gym) "healed" me. Weirdly enough, my social media algorithms stopped recommending me these depressing videos soon after. They say that sects and extremist organisations recruit their members from people who are in some way mentally down - depressed, griefing after loss and that stuff. Funny how social media algorithms took that strategy as well.

[@toastle8005]

Happy to hear you’re back with us, brother, and good luck with everything going forward. World’s getting stranger and darker, hope you stay alright out there

[@ManWithFace]

I think those videos have a place, as it's important to know how a larger system can eventually screw you and many others over, but you're right that this algorithm conveniently forgets to mention "so what can i do about it for myself". Glad you took the shrinkpill and found your way out of the mess.

[@gregoryblack8109]

Same, I got addicted to the internet early due to me being homeschooled and incredibly lonely way back in the mid 2000s. I've gone to therapy to really deal with and it's helping quite a bit. The internet is a great tool for information and entertainment, but I hate how it's destroyed how we talk, there are so many people who try and control how we think and feel about everything, even before social media with forums.

[@FoxyCAMTV]

If you experienced the early internet,you are one of the very few lucky humans who experienced something so unique and heavenly and its forever lost for everybody else. Its a bittersweet feeling.

[@ffffuchs]

China has a closed ecosystem not to simply exclude American tech companies - that is of course part of it - but mainly to not have their citizens get exposed to ideas and content the Party deems unacceptable. So I'd be really wary of making statements like that since it sounds like you are advocating for such bubbles of net, when that would be an even worse dystopia than what we have as of now. At least you can find unconventional ideas and sites, in China, no chance.

[@ranfan1820]

Who is that in your pfp?

[@danielutriabrooks477]

@@ranfan1820 Kagerou Imaizumi, Touhou wolfgirl

[@throatwobblermangrove7508]

You have no idea what you are talking about.

[@Harsh_Noise]

>Global monopoly silences voices "Look at this tragedy" >Trans person silences voices "I don't condone everything this website did, and I most certainly wouldn't have allowed it to happen on my website... just look at the publically editable wikipedia which was raided years ago and never fixed!"

[@myb8955]

There’s no helping anyone who says this. John Money continues to do irreperable damage to society so long after death.

[@loke801]

“Pay no mind to the strange Discord server and DIY website”

[@jimmycarburator2012]

my brother in FRQQT what are you talking about

[@Ceeeeee451]

word salad

[@sylonogwailou]

I mean, he's on youtube, if he were to not preface with "gosh this website is so bad, I wouldn't allow it" he'd be banned after some trans activist screamed about it on twitter.

[@marshalllonigan1950]

This is by far your best video dude.

[@hoosierdeddy92]

Very well done. Also adding Halo and Dark Souls music is an automatic sub from me.

[@stray8468]

this video is 1 hour long however it did not feel as such at all. very interesting video essay, I like it. I think you should make more, but maybe delve into opinions or things that haven't been said before so much

[@thedude9001]

55:02 Nobody talks about this but it's so true. I can't help but roll my eyes whenever some internet lefty says they "grew out of" alt-right political beliefs.

[@dcogs8856]

I would like to add to the live leak morality. I watched a lot of human gone videos while under stress. It was a method of keeping my head in reality instead of letting my mind fall into anxiety. I have better mechanisms now. Never did I think I’d commit anything.

[@111paolo2]

Fair enough, it's only gruesome when it's someone saying "gore doesn't affect me lmao I think it's funny xddddD"

[@gametech4101]

Excellent essay! The internet has helped me in several departments, but I can't help but think everyday that it ruined me both physically and mentally. It's like drinking alcohol: drinking once in a while is fun, but drinking too much will rot your mind. I've always hated the idea of a few corporations gate keeping common services under their jurisdiction (Google for search engine, Microsoft for business tools, KZbin for video platform, Facebook and Twitter for social media, etc.). I don't mind centralizing services, otherwise we would be back to the 2000s' internet wild west, but it shouldn't be reserved to only a few key corporations who absorb everything in their path. Having a competitor for KZbin that can realistically live up to the latter without looking like a cheap bootleg shouldn't be an impossible task, but here we are. Worse yet, those corporations, especially the ones in control of social media, are treating everyone like children, including adults. Like you said, naughty words are censored and touchy subjects are silenced. KZbin particularly is like the parents who shelter their kid from danger and deny him any chance of being hardened enough to confront said danger by himself. The result? Weaklings, cowards and manchildren living in constant fear and blissful ignorance. You hit right at home when you talked about content that takes a lot of effort to make that gets overshadowed by the low effort content. There's nothing more demoralizing than spending hours, days or even months working on something, be it an artwork, video, game, etc. Only to be stepped aside by shitposts that were created in thirty minutes. I've had that issue, my friends had that issue and youtubers that I know had that issue as well. We live in the age of internet where effort is usually frowned upon in favor of quick and effortless content. That's not to say that high effort content can never become popular, but trends and the algorithm can easily screw you over.

[@tendo649]

19:39 "They are too big to fail" famous last words before things fail

[@wompastompa3692]

>the SHITernet [HEADCANON] I TANKED it.

[@n00bXRT]

/dbs/ wins again