And are there any you would support if you had just that little bit of extra disposable income?

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Yeah? Ofc.

    I’m just disappointed that people are so gullible as to donate to multi-millionaire YouTubers and other e-celebs and content slop farms they form these so-called “parasocial bonds” with, addicted to consuming algorithmically driven content on big tech platforms and enriching their “betters”.

    To go out of their way to hand more money over to rich people at any opportunity from subscriptions to ads to this, for increasingly less and less value. To bend over backwards just because they got a little hit of dopamine because of some pattern of blue light on a computer monitor dancing to the tune of our ailing civilization.

    Each to their own of course, but goddamn I wish people were better. It’s like the whole world went crazy. Maybe it always was. Most people feel like aliens who make no sense, who’s perspective I can’t even fathom, whether it’s the internet or IRL, and reasonable people seem few and far between.

    Each thing like this, another stick upon the camel’s back. Another bit of disappointment. Another weary sigh, yet we press on. Thanks for asking.

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      21 hours ago

      Atlas himself cowers at the sheer burden of hearing about people donating to content creators they like.