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Originally Posted by NoWhErE
Your assumptions about me are 100% wrong.
But something tells me that doesn’t matter.
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What was the last topic you were opinionated on?
Post-COVID, there is almost no reason to even air an opinion counter to the majority on whatever platform you're on, as most places, other than 4Chan, are complete echo chambers of one form or another. There are some topics that platforms encourage debate on, as it gets clicks and ragebaits people into coming back to the platform. Think of all of the liberal vs conservative battlegrounds. X is so good for this.
As it is in 2023, the online spaces have to be navigated strategically. If you are the type of thoughtstream or "living in the moment" type of person, the world and the online spaces are designed to eliminate you in favour of the strategic poster who socially climbs by acting agreeable and kissing everyone else's ass. People who can live impulsively and passionately are quickly filtered out. Go on Reddit on any of the Canadian city subreddits and they are all echo chambers. So many comment sections on Facebook are echo chambers of a different sort. Then go to YouTube and those comments are completely off-the-charts coded-based at times with thousands of likes.
There is a real anthropological understanding you get by navigating all of the various chatrooms and comment sections, and as you probe what each platform is willing to tolerate, you can get a feel for what the overall narratives are allowed to spawn on the different platforms, which is funny, because TikTok comments VS Instagram comments, VS Twitter comments and YouTube comments, they all differ quite a bit in the personalities that gravitate towards each platform. How can you begin to understand the complex and banal topics people chat about without jumping in yourself and probing around for what people think? At the same time, if you probe too much and upset the balance of the sub, you'll get banned.
On Reddit, I remember getting banned off the /r/Vancouver sub in one of the COVID threads because I mentioned Pfizer's 2.3 billion dollar fine in 2009 and I said "I think I'll wait a bit" in regards to taking the vaccine. Comments like that shouldn't be something you get banned for, but on like 90% of the internet during COVID, your entire account could get nuked permanently if you crossed that very minor line.
Anyways, as I asked earlier... what was the last controversial, or different-from-the-majority opinion you held, and did you try and talk about it online?