I’m sure algorithms talking to algorithms responding to algorithms based on data mining are all behind the kind of content we’re shown. And when you consider the information that exists about me and is not only readily purchased but easily found without advanced data mining bullshit?
I am a divorced 41 year old man that is an actor and a criminal prosecutor.
I am on several dating apps and have hired a matchmaker before… all of this appears to be long term with little success or pause.
My purchasing habits tend to be books, video games, things for my dog, or presents for family.
Financial Information suggests no regular dates, appointments, social outings, or activity with others.
My trending topics are typically politics, anime, Star Trek/Wars, traditional acting, voice acting, kink space, dating, psychology, Problems with Dating, Problems with Modern Dating, and Why Am I Un-dateable?
In short… any half-intelligent algorithm is going to send me things regarding the difficulties of dating as a divorced man, difficulties in social interaction of Weebs and Nerds, Political Rage Bait, and Thirst Traps. I know that even just going in.
But as things like Some More News, Pod Save America, Under the Desk News, Under the Golden Dome, and Leeja Miller return to my more frequent rotation....... the algorithm gets an interesting hiccup. From “HERE IS CONTENT” to a sudden “HOW DO WE SYLOGIZE THESE COMPETING CONTENT SOURCES?!” In one such move.... the algorithms talking to algorithms responding to algorithms based on data mining combined “Evidence Based Media Facts That Could Sound Like Conspiracy” and “Male Dating Problems.”
One of the things I saw today was well documented and established evidence that Male Red Pill Content Creators were behind several Social Media Trends that read “Why I’m Done With Men” and other “Women Hate Men” content. The only reason I bring this up is because of how frequently I see this content retweeted by women.
Before, we used to talk about how women supported the patriarchy by treating “going to work” as a moral failing. We discussed how a proper feminist response, a proper response to dismantle women supporting the patriarchy, is to treat going to work or staying at home as “a good choice”. But, unfortunately, the nature of humanity seems to be “always go too far” of course, so it didn’t take long before we saw the beginning of “staying at home is the immoral choice” as mainstream. Humans are extremists at heart (apparently… emotion plus chaos is a human equation) so it is difficult to gain “an appropriate equilibrium” when people make choices typically based on personal history and emotional response. Which is another way of saying “people make choices based on their own trauma” which is why it can be so difficult to find “middle of the road” or “balanced” in too many things. People responding from trauma are rarely (if ever) to respond in measured, controlled, logical ways. Which isn’t a slam. Responding from a place of trauma is responding from a place of hurt and profound discomfort. But responding from trauma often.... causes problems, even if well intended.
I have… dozens of examples of this but my first ever? High School, I was singing to myself having just seen The Wedding Singer. “Somebody kill me please, I’m on my knees, pretty pretty please, kill me.” When someone from across the room shrieked and screamed. I didn’t even realize I was doing it so I thought they were responding as though I were suicidal. Before I could apologize and explain, they mounted their high horse (responding from trauma) and started shouting “MY BEST FRIEND’S COUSIN IN CHICAGO JUST KILLED HIMSELF LAST WEEK! YOU WANT TO MAYBE SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH BEFORE YOU OFFEND HER MORE?!?!” Which… you may have seen.... isn’t even “responding from trauma” but “responding from a desire to protect someone in trauma”..... which, I think, you can see examples of all over in the last ten or twenty years. Which goes back to extremism because.... we’ve seen empathy being called a sin… we’ve seen compassion be painted as an enemy of the people. When “Being nice to others” Is being treated as AGAINST the regime.... then “being overly nice in an obnoxious way” can feel like it is revolutionary. And we see the push pull of it all. “I’m MAGA so I can call anybody anything that I want!” “I’m anti-MAGA so if you use the r word I will destroy your life!” “I’m MAGA and I’m going to say the r word on OAN eighteen times because fuck you!” “I’m anti-MAGA so I’m going to buy an ad campaign on OAN teaching people why NOT to say the r word.” And meanwhile.... the actual mentally and physically challenged would rather the focus be on shit like.... food assistance, medical coverage… shit that matters. Because we also now live in a world of mere Performative Extremism. It doesn’t matter if anybody makes a difference or is even working against the real problem..... it is only important to LOOK like you’re fighting for your side.
So with all of that going on? I suppose it wasn’t a surprise to see a few pieces covering the evidence and examples of how some Red Pill Content Creators these days are explicitly launching social media campaigns on Pro-Feminist spaces. That Red Pill Content Creators are actually actively creating social media spaces of “Women Hate Men”. Which… with everything going on in the world, isn’t as shocking as it should be! Red Pill Spaces need men to think women hate them; because if we were on the same side, we might get along long enough to make some actual social change! But if Women Hate Men, it is easier to build a cult or a grift whereby you keep red pilling men left and right! SO.... as part of a successful Red Pill Strategy… it just makes sense that they would also be creating or contributing to “the other side.”
During the initial rise of misinformation during 2016, we clearly saw Pro-Trump Content Creators whipping together fake news stories that depicted the other side as “exactly as vile as we always say they are.” Now, it was in a different fashion. It wasn’t so.... false flag. It was outlandish and intentionally offensive headlines like- “Immigrants Rape Children, Police Do Nothing” fake news stories to stir hatred. Hell, the “Eating the Cats, Eating the Dogs” bullshit originally started as some asshole online spreading misinformation content intended to whip Trumpers into fervor. Honestly, it goes back even further. HOW MANY TIMES have you heard someone bitch about elementary schools letting kids who identify as cats use litterboxes in school? I lost count long after I lost my patience on that shit. And THAT came from misinformation shit stirrer culture based on an uneducated content creator taking pictures of Cat Litter bags in a school and spreading the false narrative he concocted to explain it! AT NO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY HAVE CHILDREN BEEN PERMITTED TO USE A LITTER BOX AS A BATHROOM but that didn’t stop it from being debated on the Senate floor!
So, the Red Pill asshats are just taking that perspective and adding a layer. It’s not much different from producing the fake news stories “Immigrants rape Children, Police Do Nothing”.... as it is “Women Hate Men, Beta Males Do Nothing” as a crude one to one. But what makes it most especially noteworthy and concerning to me? Is when the people start sharing the content who are the original community the content was targeting. I suppose it would be similar to the following:
(A) Conservative rag publishes fake news article “Elementary Students Using Litterboxes in School” but then the Pro-Furry Community spread that story as though it were a celebration of positive representation in the media.
(B) Conservative rag publishes fake news article “The Immigrants Are Eating the Cats, They Are Eating the Dogs” but then Pro-Immigrant Communities spread that story as though it was a perfect way to promote the rich culinary diversity of immigrant communities.
(C) Conservative rag publishes fake news article “Trans Children in Sports Win 100% of the Time; New Way to Discriminate Against Women in Sports!” but then the pro-feminist and Pro-Trans Communities spread that story as though it was proof of why Trans-kids should be permitted to play sports in school.
Seeing pro-feminist spaces spreading Red Pill Content created specifically to further the gender divide is.... wild. I was seeing all of this with a sense of confusion until I realized what my assumption, what my prejudice was. Where I was failing from a question of perspective!
Because if it doesn’t make sense? Recontextualize it. I think “pro-feminist space” and I think “a space actively promoting the equality of women in all respects.” I wrongly presumed a pro-feminist space was a space uniquely designed to champion the strength of women. That it was a loftier… higher place.... dedicated to the message. I needed to stop thinking “gender studies” and properly re-contextualize it as SOCIAL MEDIA SPACE thus.... nothing more than a space dedicated to revenue based on content and traffic. It doesn’t matter if the “Fuck men” content is created by Red Pill Content Creators in an effort to Red Pill more men. If it is free content that a page can use… and if that content will generate interaction, involvement, or discussion- it no longer matters if it is true, relevant, moral, on point, or genuine.
NOTHING matters as much as “does this drive views to the page?” From that perspective, it started to make sense. Though remained disappointing. I wanted to see these spaces like the President of the Feminist Students Union sitting in the quad protesting for equal pay and safer campuses. But that’s not what the space is. It’s just.... additional content, revenue, engagement circle jerks. It isn’t the President of the Feminist Students Union… it’s the loser in the dorm that lives by himself and decorated his door with pictures of vomit and scheiße porn. Which is too specific an example to be fictional. 2004- The kid in my hallway on campus who just wanted attention DID decorate his door with pictures of vomit and scheiße porn.... because it did get him attention. People were upset, they were mad, they engaged with him telling him to take it down. And that’s all he wanted. Just like SO DAMNED MUCH of internet content pages right now. If they can post things that make people upset, mad, engage with them? That’s all they want. SO SURE. This is content created by Red Pill Man O’Sphere knuckle draggers intending to do nothing more than make men think women hate them and want them dead so that Red Pill Man O’Sphere knuckle draggers can recruit more men to be like them..... but a dozen pro-feminist pages will still post that content because it drives engagement. Because it isn’t about communicating or fighting for an ideal or spreading understanding. More and more and more and more and more and more of Content Online is strictly created to be the weird kid who would go so far as scheiße porn home decor just to get a reaction. It isn’t about a message or educating or communicating or changing anything. It is strictly engagement, traffic, revenue. Which should be obvious, I guess… I’m just… struggling with how truly hollow every corner of the internet has really become.
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