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Re: "The toxicity in the comments section"
You also have to take into account how various algo are designed to make us spend as much time as possible on a given website. So when they make us angry.
It’s sad
2023-12-05 · 4 months ago
🐉 gyaradong · Dec 08 at 07:09:
in my view, it's not anger, it's a strange kind of honesty. And I don't think it comes from anonymity, as is visible from Facebook and real names. Basically people act differently when surrounded by others and there seems to be a physical aspect to that. On a computer we are "alone" even though we are publishing something. This, alongside the idea that the only way of knowing that something is read is by having a reply, it encourages people to share their worst thoughts.
The toxicity in the comments section — I've recently seen a video of a musician, that started with him reading (turning it into a cacophony of several voices mixed in) all the nasty comments he receives in his Youtube channel. Some of them are intellegible and a group of words resonated: «you should kill yourself». In this case, it wasn't about a life threatening decision made by the musician, he just did an album. And then I got to thinking that those words, along with others sounding in a...