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It’s propaganda, the increase in violent online games & right wing YouTube videos is massively impacting these young boys. Gamer talk is a common rhetoric on violent multiplayer games, it’s normal to verbally abuse people, call them slurs, threaten to kill or rape them etc. This normalises that kind of talk, it’s all a joke so surely it can’t be that bad is the mentality of these boys. They don’t see it as hate speech because it’s not directed at minorities, not understanding it makes this language comfortable for people to use.
Another problem is the algorithm on YouTube skews heavily right wing, it recommends conservative red pill videos to these boys. It quickly becomes an echo chamber, they think Trump is just talking smack and that he’s actually entertaining as a president. It’s just awful
Comment by bananainpajamas at 06/11/2024 at 21:42 UTC
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I agree with all of this. My hot take is not everyone deserves to have a voice on the Internet(she said, typing an internet comment). There’s a lot of toxicity and no kind of checks and balances for the kind of toxic online Manosphere bullshit that exists.
I think this combined with what started as the incel movement has made the internet incredibly toxic for men. It turned into a space where rather than figure out why women won’t date you and make yourself a better partner for them, they seek out ways to manipulate the situation so that they can “win” a woman without changing themselves. Or just call them a bitch