The Internet is Worse Than Ever - Now What?

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kurzgesagt!!!!!!!!!!!

We love ur work keep going👍

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WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

​@@RANDOMGUYBRO2763why?

i agree also

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Anti-vaxers:"fear my power of being stupid"

Not just social media though, the anger in large part is driven by the current woke movement, opinionated Left (which winds the Right up) and our go governments shoving PCness down our throats and getting more authoritarian. That, together with the COVID lockdowns, illegal immigration and ever-present wars, has really put people on edge.

Annoying is a good way to put it. It doesn’t make me angry, it doesn’t make me sad; I’m just really annoyed.

@@newtybot often i find the emotion to be frustrating, even deeper than annoying. but it's good to try and make sense of what you can

Just a tad little bit more than annoying for me. But I guess that says more about me than anyone else

Yup. Purged social media years ago. Sought IRL friendships but they’re all addicted to tiktok. Now I’m lonely everywhere I go and it’s like society is just... gone... now.

sadly i bought a laptop lmfao. future me might say it was the worst thing i ever did

YESSSS ME TOO!! I agree all my socials are on my ipad and it's been months since I charged it! I think our generation might facilitate smartphone death!

I should probably do the same. I tried using digital wellbeing tools but it isn't working out :/

@@improvwithlions4173 ooh interesting, what are digital wellbeing tools?? Like screentime monitors?

I did the same but failed to delete youtube. I should do tht😅

as an adult teenager, I say this is accurate! atleast in my experience.

It has created an atmosphere where censorship is running rampant and everyone is constantly bombared with extremely efficient propaganda, much of which is intended to demoralize, divide and pacify us.

It is helpful in some ways like opening a wider community for a group of affected people, and also makes them think "there are people who had it worse". This honestly also makes it harder for people to find support because as more people can express themselves they find out that what they have is normal, especially when they go into a community filled with people who are also effected without knowing that they're in a smaller portion of the internet/world.

we need some down time asap

Also alot of it is powerlessness to change things for the better to solve these issues at hand. Granted this has always been the case since humanity is inherently hierarchical by nature but social media has really just made us more aware of how powerless most people are (assuming stories on there aren't faked which is also pretty common

So for those of you who feel you lack agency, I'd say by not contributing to the anger, you're doing a lot!

That's for the tip, you great wise man i agree when a place got problems on are phones we need to leave it, and not go into fights in the name something it will not change. Stay safe love from israel

So, she's a ideological conservative?

wise words

Wise lady.

Exactly, like I get it that it's a method to pacify their own kid but they are still too young to be on the internet, who knows where they might end up in when their kid is no longer in the child friendly demographic part of the internet, and don't even realize that these other types of media isn't on par nor is it supposed to be something to be shown to a young child. That's why it is highly suggested there is at least a global rule or something that every single parent to should know, that is to show the internet to their children only when they are ready or at a certain age when they can actually process such information.

In a way, that’s the best way to get us humans to adapt quicker to these new realities. This is evolution 😅.

@@HoboTangoyes, however evolution is not guided, evolution does not cater to what we want it to do, it might create more resistant minds to the Internet, but it could also have the inverse effect, where minds become more prone to internet addiction, because that is what gets it dopamine. 😔 So it turns out that fighting fire with fire, can work to stop the fire spreading, but in the end you are still left with a ton of fire

Tiktok is a chinese psyop

I think being exposed from a younger age helped me to adjust to the information overload. The iPad babies should do better than us in the future.

u know social media made it hard to understand real world
try hard things if u wanna be free child again

@@ilv839 can you elaborate

@@teabaggins7091 what u fighting on internet wuth people talk about it in real life
people will tell new perspective
atleast u can see the real expression
its not wasting of time
i am kinda clueless tooo still trying to figure out
life before Internet

I disagree

Then go outside more often. The only propper way is to face it(the fear); practice makes perfect.

youtube is a major part of the problem

Unfortunately I don't think the ends justify the means and the social media experiment has failed.

You just gave yourself hours of your life back 💖

Social media makes you sad. I'm glad to say I've convinced my children of this as well and they're not interested in it.

​@@ahaharegret3744unless you watch retro PC channels

Yes, I think more people need to be aware of this, or else lives will be ruined.

Bro come on. The reason for that is because most people use the internet to show their true selves and keep a facade in real life.

It is not an accurate reflection of the real world, but it is telling you what people are thinking. At the very least we now have an understanding of what people genuinely think when anon. What people are realizing is that our internal thoughts are crazy and can be sinister or over reactionary in seconds. Social media has told you what your neighbor is thinking, and that scares you.

People also in real life often support the middle ground or sometimes even negative stances. On the internet because likes and upvotes are a thing people always virtue signal when they can. Whatever group you identify with, you pander to them, so they give you positive feedback and reinforce your decisions. It's a lot easier to disagree in person, especially as a conversation isn't recorded in perpetuity.

Agreed. Also, most people do not engage with content, ie they lurk and do not comment nor engage.
The real world is a better place.

This is pretty much how discord is used these days. At least the smaller more niche discord servers.
It's just unfortunate that it's relying on one specific company instead of individually run forums.

​@@NihongoWakannaiKurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

people like hasanabi have started a pipeline to radical leftism on the internet, and its consequences are very visible while social media companies do nothing

a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable
you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to

sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better

you're part of the problem babe

@@Mildredpotka Thank you for proving my point. Btw nice troll account. 🙂

​@@MildredpotkaI hope you find a healthier way to communicate with people that leads to lasting connection, you can undo whatever trauma has caused you to view confrontation as the default response it just takes time✌️

eatmey@@cactusMarks

Agreed, but guess what, they think the same way about you as well. Were all part of the problem.

I must say... Arguing so much with people has lead me to open some socials way less frequently because then I have to keep arguing. And it helped me a lot since now I've just come out from a period of extreme boredom in which I was on TikTok a lot waiting for something to happen

social media is also just fucking lame. look at old websites. look at neocities. websites in the 2000s had SO much personality and charm. Nobody is "browsing" the internet anymore and it became a boring hellscape.

its not the internet thats is the issue, its how people are using it eg sical media. I tend to use the interent to learn things (alot through youtube), instead of news reading and that god awful thing they call reddit, it tends to be less toxic when you arnt interacting with other people.

My brain is stupid also..

So I would recommend Wisecrack channel, they also talk about this stuff but from philosophical point of view.

big factsss

@@lowkeyn Taking things out of context is your passion. You're just an example of my comment. I never said your family couldn't make you angry...

I believe a huge part of it is taking part in "conversations" without seeing the other person's face and body language. Some religious people came to my door but I couldn't bring myself to openly state their beliefs were stupid. I couldn't bear their physical reaction of hurt if I said that to their faces. Online I'd have no problem cutting out the niceties.

Idk christmas diners getting wild

@@dime.overmatter actually, I find it easier sometimes to express my nonconforming to someone face to face. But you're right, physical harm or being put in an uncomfortable situation is what makes us stop from being like that many times, but being assertive and building boundaries is important.

I hear you. Every time i see a video about something negative, I can’t help but feel bad, even if it isn’t connected to an interest of mine.
And I can’t just not care about it, since that seems apathetic.

Such a good metaphor, btw I have seen so many bots on the comments recently

I'm glad i got to be part of that, being on forums for most of my childhood before it became more phased out...
To some extend it exists as discord but its far from main social media. Its a side activity now why all the major sites siphon everything everyone in one place, including one we're on now.

Reddit is still that way for the most part in my opinion, specific niche communities for your interests, heck even entire niche forums dedicated to say like your car etc. The old internet is still alive, but in a very small number. You have to look for places yourself, navigate the horror that is the algorithmic internet.

You can thank capitalism for that! Gotta monetize EVERYTHING, baby!

Look up Mastodon, Fediverse

Social media is a problem but humans too have intrinsic cultural problems with the contemporary culture (or lack of it) falling short of critical thinking and scientific mindset making people convinced of the most unhinged and extreme theories and ideologies (including religion ideology unfortunately).
P.s. Also the violent and partisan nature of us humans becomes very apparent when these cultural tribes tuns into such unhealthily competitive behaviour against each other

@@markmuller7962YOU’re WRONg anD I HaTe YoU. JESUS Died For YOur SINS.

Sorry to use this comment to make a point that hopefully will get seen, but is no one gonna talk about religion? I feel like religion is the problem with social sorting on the internet, and that's not gonna slow down ever. Internet or not.

It's only the fault of the LGBTQ cult.

@@colinmcintyre1769religion has been the number 1 cause of war so yeah you’re right

Has to start somewhere though

Hard to find once very stable social nowadays.

Forget forcing what you think is best for society and focus on what is best for your life, family and friends. Too many people trying to change the world with a biased or limited understanding of it.

Same here but with 9gag. I think it's better to avoid these platforms even if they had positive sides

Same here. I nearly told someone to off themselves.
Thank god I quit.

​​@@cookieciahahaha good one 😂😂 you called the devil by his name

nah, that’s what everyone says, it wasn’t so bad then because you were too young to know it

@@cookiecia That's hilarious!

"The internet proves that not everybody can all fit under the same roof..."
- some comment I saw years ago

I miss the old Internet when you could find obscure blogs and such.

wth why are you here pelo (btw, latin fan here!!!)

It's surprising how humanity made a double-edged sword and didn't anhilate themselves yet :/

ARE YOU READY FOR ROUND TWO!?

Not from my POV, it saved me from death :D

MOOOKKKIIIIII

Won't ever happen. The early internet was so "cozy" and srs bizness because it was used by only a relatively small portion of society. After social media took off, and internet usage became a ubiquitous thing, everything changed.
You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

thats kinda what discord is if you think about it

It won’t. I think the next evolution of humanity is total virtualisation where all information is available instantly, and accurately without the ability to hide anything so consensus can be achieved immediately. A hive mind if you will.

Cause everyone was a fucking weirdo and we knew that
It’s literally the whole “normie” complaint

​@@planescaped Interesting and fitting analogy. I do agree that it's impossible to squeeze all the toothpaste back into the tube, but it's not that difficult to squeeze some of the excess back in. Likewise, it's impossible to entirely detach ourselves from the Internet in this day and age, but it doesn't hurt to shut off the computer or phone for a while to rest your eyes, or failing that, to at least return to smaller communities like on forum sites or private Discord servers. Forums have been around all this time; one just has to look for them.

Bro, I've been blocked, put on blast, harassed, and even had my intelligence mocked for simply having an opinion that no one else shares or for simply disagreeing with people. I know the feeling. That's social media in a nutshell.

Godzilla fan here, same thing is happening in some capacity in our fandom. I think can imagine how you feel. Being a fan of anything should never be this stressful but hey, it's the internet :/

@@yoschle3928 I'm curious, what is exactly happening in the Godzilla fandom?

You could've researched the term on your own tho.

@@ccrossed4854 yea but i wouldn't have agree with him if he didn't have a piece of paper so

it is pretty much what national culture is. it is your team.

@@ccrossed4854he basically did it was just a theory to him at the time smh

It can be seen quite clearly through the abundance of straw man arguments on the internet.

I feel my Swedish and English has become worse over time. My kid barely use social media because I believe her being outside and play is far more important than sitting in front of a phone. I do believe the mother of my kid feels the same way.

@@agamersinsanity Which is unfortunate, because the capacity to be outside and play has been reduced. You can't just go out and play because theres nowhere to go. Kids these days aren't allowed to do the things that the kids of prior generations did. I'm gen z and could be mistaken for agoraphobic, and even I have some childhood memories of doing things that would be impossible now due to legality and rules tightening.
As a society we've taken away the ability for kids to be kids.

My cousins are sharp when in comes to processing information. They are iPad babies. However, socially they are odd. Couldn't speak well until they were 6. Speaking well by means of properly communicating how they feel and think. Prior to that they could perfectly pronounce foreign words and weird noises. Like a recorder of video shorts babbling in human form. It was bizarre.

You see a lot of teachers on tiktok videos these days...and they don't seem very stable.

You're a teacher and you use the word "learnt" instead of learned? Guess you're not an English teacher...

"my political point of view is correct and yours is wrong"
pretty much the entire internet

Yep. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve been called dumb, dense, stupid, or be told I lacked critical thinking skills online by people who are trying to prove to a bunch of strangers how smart they are for validation. It’s not even about educating people anymore. It’s about making total strangers feel horrible to inflate your ego.

Always say it's like a thing to be an asshole online like ppl have to do it

@@Loveispainj yeah

Good decision. Have a nice day ^^

IRC was my go-to social circle for years and made a lot of great friends through a circle of people who shared a specific shared interest: we were a bunch of wreckheads who'd get mashed every Friday night and hang out together on video chat and sometimes play videogames together.
I've been unable to find a similarly tight-knit online community since then, even Discord doesn't seem to match the level of social interconnectedness as IRC, at least IME. Maybe I've just not found the right server 🤷‍♂️

Great example of saying a lot of words without really saying anything. You can still find communities on the new internet. I've been here since the start as well, myspace and old youtube days. It's not that different and you're over-exaggerating how "difficult" it is to navigate.

@@yangpaan453 I was literally thinking the same thing lmao. This is why Kuzgarts vid about social media not creating opposing viewpoints is imo false af. All these "communities" are still around, many people just look in the wrong place like the top social media platforms known to be toxic or the already known to be godawful youtube comment section lol.

​@@yangpaan453This is actually kinda true. There are still plenty of small forums you can go to, it's just that people see how big social media is and think that's all there is to the internet now.
But at the end of the day though I still think social media needs to go. We can hide in our smaller communities all we want but the longer the normies have their brains rotted by social media the worse its going to be for us.

I like saying nothing, but also I just meant today's internet overwhelms me, that's all :)@@yangpaan453

Says the guy on the internet in the comments section....

​@@smhdpt12to be fair, commenting under an educational video is quite a bit different than going onto a Fox news report and arguing for 40 minutes

If it makes you feel any better the printing press lead to an 80 year war over slightly different versions of the exact same religion.

Absolutely

@@smhdpt12 you're exactly the reason why this video were made in the first place man.

even in debates people just want to win the argument and fully prove the other side as wrong as possible
no one is actually searching for any useful education and open understanding

@@sofia_jijai990 then they are not debating.

First reply never thought I would be first to a comment made by a KRplusr with 11 million subscribers

Damnit. I'm old.

@@randomspacefan didnt even notice!! love the videos they did with the slow mo guys

It feels really good that I was born at a time, not too early or late, where I could see and understand the entire steady transition of internet and technology towards damnation.

Oh i misheard it as "all people" i was confused

Didn’t expect to see you here! The internet really can serve as a breeding ground for radical opinions.

Honestly that’s really good for you cause there’s lots of people who isolate themselves and forget about what going on around them

exactly.

I mean, it's still true to an extent, just not because of the internet or algorithms like some want to believe, but because many of us naturally live in different parts of the world with different standards and cultures.
But again, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just internet bringing up disagreements about things most of us wouldn't even bother to think about otherwise.

Oh hello Phantom! Out of all youtubers I watch I would have never expected to see ya here. Pleasant surprise regardless^^

TikTok is poison

Exactly. The real world has so few of those twitter radicals that it does wonders for the soul. Turns out most of the working class is just as racist and homophobic as me who'd have imagined.

It's not AS bad, but it's still full of lefties, libs, and foreigners.

that's the exact thing I've learned as well. I was basically terminally online for a while until I went back to my home country and then talked to my family and various old friends. I found out that real life conversations are far better than the ones you make online.

Yea the internet shows u the worst of the worst but outside its refreshing how much nicer people are

The basic human instict to share information monetized again by the greedy minority

Hopefully the internet is just going through it’s moody teen phase.

@@lucastheguy4452 lol

that was the entire concept of the internet but some people just took it to another level

Can't believed they capitalised our attention😭

WILL be rich? There are several such people in the comments section already.
Some people ARE just stupid. And we gave them the loudest voice there is due to how the internet was designed. -.-
Or rather, due to how social media was designed. Controversy drives engagement. Ugh...

@@arkosilaura yep, only way to keep our heads straight Is admit it when we do the same :/

Ikr I do this everyday I don’t want to I actually want to be less judgmental but it is what it is all I can do is not open my mouth about something that I disagree with

I massively disagree with you. You're clearly on the other team and therefore evil.

im trying to be self aware but its not very easy considering the person you live with more throughout your life is yourself

Yeah, and there was no ban/ignore button for each user. Only moderators and administrators can do that, so you'll face a diversity of opinions whether you like it or not.

@@exception05alas, nowadays you get banned for pointing out objective facts/truths in certain places if you don’t uphold the current narrative

a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable
you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to

sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better

Forums still exist. You can create one in seconds and then foster a community. The problem will still exist. The problem isnt the internet ... well for the most part. Its people.

in some systems they do that to some degree already. i don't know how relevant it is, but source criticality is heavily encouraged in schools in some nordic countries. this only applies to factual stuff though, not tolerating others' opinions.

So you want school to last even longer or what would you cut out?

@aurorasun-qs1pg Dude it's not like they're suggesting an extra 5 years of school or something. My mom actually works as a librarian in an elementary school where they teach things like this to young children as part of their ELA/communication classes. Media literacy is a natural next step in existing parts of our education, and it's not difficult to include in our current curriculum. The most difficult part about including it is that people who are deeply radicalized tend to get angry when their kids are taught to question these things, which depending on the laws of your local school system, may mean you're limited in what subjects you're allowed to bring up or what materials you're allowed to share.

I really like the way you phrase the last sentence. Avoiding your own shortcomings and teaching that skill. That's a great plan!

​@@aurorasun-qs1pgI would rather the OP's idea taught in schools instead of radical gender ideology.

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

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Agreed, I keep feeling the urge to totally go cold turkey and completely disconnect, but it's just not plausible

it's this way by design! they want to force you to keep buying (smartphones, computers, ipads, chargers, all sorts of devices)!

I find it so complicated trying to not be on social media or a device, I can't escape it during school since we always use our chromebooks to learn and the teachers barely make me do any hand-on activities.

I hate seeing applications that demand access to your social media. No 🤡

F u ok?

Maybe not anonymous, but distant. Today a person can go into a forum filled with people they hate, "shout" a bunch of rude things, then leave feeling smug that they just upset a bunch of people without consequence. But try doing that IRL and someone may chase you or retaliate in some way.

the internet nowadays is just brain rotting memes and songs and children making tiktok

It’s also that some people have believed one thing their entire life and when they’re introduced to other opinions that are different, they go on a rampage and refuse to even listen to the other side even slightest, which is a huge problem in our brains that doesn’t really have a solution

@@nicraftstudios0 The solution, in my opinion, is to stop viewing everything as a bipartisan issue. People just whittle down every issue to "it either is, or isn't" and it's an unhealthy way of thinking. More people need to realize that the world isn't black or white, it's greyscale.

I wish I had less empathy. I took a massive L the other day during a stupid argument against some jackass, now I feel guilty for some reason

Дело в том что люди слишком заняты в погоне за счастьем и им некогда остановится оглянуться и подумать что вокруг происходит и в кого нас превращают, в заключённых в цифровой тюрьме.

age of information and content creation. people have no idea how easy is to manipualte social media with bots and promotional accounts if u want it. social media is also a huge bussines. what young generation need to understand

Yes, and now the AI revolution is well under way. It's crazy how computing technologies have speed up the pace of innovation and social change

And the worst people are trying to gain fame and fortune using it.

And people didn't even think it was a big deal at first.
It has many benefits, but we need to use it wisely

You might not be the only one dude.

You got my word

hear hear

omg youre using outlook? team thunderbird is obviously the winning team there...

I completely agree with you. Have my like. Ah sh... here we go again.

Yeah they did
They even had to tell you twice just so you could understand

He called me stupid 😢

😂

He said it twice too…..

​@@hollandicus_missile*this is a example of what he said on the video

I'm suffering through the same thing tbh. I once called out a KRplusr for being selfish and only doing things for money. And his fans replied to me defending him saying that everyone is selfish and everyone only cares about themselves nothing wrong with that.
It broke my heart tbh so many horrible people defending someone who are just there for money.

I suggest you to just become like me
apolitical individual who listen to metal music while watching anime and playing video games
It's non of us business to fix this world

@@sofia_jijai990 Your so right ! ♥️

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle. Too little education is ultimately at the heart and core of many if not most of society's problems. As one becomes more aware of the details and nuances of a particular topic, which is absolutely a form of "more educated," one will realize that they can consider a position relating to that topic and come to the conclusion that it's not a sound position without having to "try it on for size" first. Education also allows one to _disconnect the opinion from the person espousing it, which is exactly what you're talking about here._ You can absolutely recognize someone's opinion without having to agree with it.
However, this leads to another quote: “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur. America in particular has a problem here, and it's a big one. Politicians depend on low-information voters to pass unwise, unhelpful, or potentially risky/dangerous legislation that only really benefits select groups or individuals, and the less educated a person is the easier they are to manipulate, so there's a disincentive to encourage increasing amounts and levels of quality of education. (A great relatively recent example was Trump famously saying that he loved the poorly educated after winning the POTUS election in 2016.)

​@@OddlyIncredibleOver-education is the real issue, not lack of education.
The whole culture war phenomenon STARTED in universities after all by student activist groups and activist professors with idiotic, utopian ideologies.

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

who asked?

Very true. But we can't make the mistake of just chalking everything up to different opinions and be done with it. There are opinions that are not to be accepted. A good rule of thumb is if their opinion is something that hurts others, it's probably one of those.
If someone doesn't like pineapple on pizza, that's fine. If someone wants to eradicate a subset of the population, it's not and they need their attitude adjusted.

what is 143?

@@dragongal9714 my dad would write it at the end of letters he sent me when I was very young and we were hundreds of miles apart after my parents divorced. He loved numbers. It means “I love you”

keep it 55 street

@@dragongal9714i love you

I have been thinking this too why people become so weird using internet

I agree with you but how often are you replying to an actual opinion online or a bot whose purpose is to antagonize?

Bingo. This is why the most successfully divisive "arguments" (for lack of a better term) in the us vs them conflict involve dehumanizing the other part as much as possible.

The best people I've ever met in my life were through the internet. They were all people I couldn't see the face of but learned them through their mind since looks say nothing about who a person is and you typing to another person is just an extension of your brain to theirs. But it's also a double edged sword because for all the wonderful people that exist online there's also a lot of bad ones. But this same thing can be said for people in your physical world. Not everyone in your town or city you meet are trustworthy just like those online.

I don't agree with this. I think it's even a lot more of people with real photos as profile pictures on social media, while back in the day in older forums it was a lot more anonymous.

So just the effects of dehumanization and deindivituation

youtube is social media fam, leaving comments, likes and dislikes, the algo, it's all here

@@Enderlad yeah but at least you go to just 1 or 3 platform and use social media for only 1 hour each day, balance it off you know its good

you get to learn things on youtube though@@Enderlad

@@EnderladKRplus is more fractured than twitter. Thats why its not as toxic here as there. All social media isnt created equal. KRplus still simulates the “small villages” concept.
By allowing people to follow channels and congregate around videos. Without being bombarded with shit they dont wanna see. Theres not really a “time square” effect as much. But Twitter….dear god lol that place is a fucking colosseum.

@@Enderlad Difference is that big social medias like twitter or tiktok are actually bad such as tiktok giving it's users short attention span and getting your data while twitter has a lot of toxic people, politics, propaganda, etc. meanwhile (from my experience atleast) KRplus just feels rather much more calmer and a bit different, there are problems obviously but I think KRplus, get's a small pass from being social media.

It took a bad turn. But what did we expect with that much power at our fingertips? It's always gonna go south.

Yes, but It's also true that the people we are positively connected to are too far away and it's impossible to interact with them in an everyday scenario. Ultimately we are surrounded IRL by people we don't like, scrolling through social media interacting with people we don't like and finally attempting to socialize with the 5 people around the globe we find meaningful feeling the most isolated as we've ever been.

I personally dislike that the video's solution was choosing to stay in small communities that agree with you, rather than trying to argue other philosophies to see if you are logically flawed in practice, by staying in small communities that are there to support our view, it doesn't matter how easy it is to disect flaws in it, because nobody ever argues when you share the same opinion and you don't improve or make progress.

We're just isolated from the kind people, people who would think before they leap in real life, instead we're now making everything rude, vile, black or white with so much connectivity and building up bubbles on internet, making propaganda groups all over thale place and get all of us "satisfied"

reminds me of the babel fish in hitchhikers guide

@@Solarizzin Fair point. The only "good" thing about conflict on social media is that you can learn to disagree civilly from it...but unfortunately most people won't learn that lesson I'm sure

yet you're here

I toned down a lot my social media on 2023, KRplus is mostly the only thing I use (very little) facebook like 2/minutes a day if any, the rest of the social media apps I don’t use them (IG, TT etc).
I went to my parents house to spend the day, and my Mom did notice and say “hey you are of the few people I don’t see glued to their phones” I had the most amazing day with my Mom and Dad.
Kurzgesagt is one of the few things I actively follow 😊.
I definitely recommend to tone down social media 🎉

​@@jorocKRplus at this point is barely social media
Damn you just got ratioed in the yt replys

@@joroc KRplus is a video sharing platform first, not a social media platform. Some people use it that way, but the absolute majority just scream into the void with their comments, never expecting any replies.

This person for president

Yes, the internet changed when the masses bought computers to watch the towers fall down over and over. I was on the net by late ‘93 and it was mostly nerds with similar humor.

But this model has already been implemented. It even has a name: Reddit. And guess what? It literally only exacerbates the problem; and this shouldn't be surprising, either, since isolated communities are bound *by design* to end up as echo chambers. I'm not sure what Kurzgesagt was thinking when they produced this video.

@@maxkho00the problem is it’s too easy to change your “tribe” and people are organised by what they already think, or they think the same way as whatever extremist group they already came across.
Reddit happens because people on the internet don’t have to agree. They don’t have to resolve conflict. They can just find a new group of people who agree with them. It’s a really really hard problem, because people shouldn’t conform to their tribe or their society if their tribe is toxic, unhealthy or a cult. But if people are given the ability to change their tribe, they are more likely to join an echo chamber, or people that already agree with them.
We have to remember that tribal society wasn’t actually very good, it could be worse than social media. Remember back then they didn’t tolerate anyone who wasn’t part of their tribe, they fort a lot more with other tribes; people with disability were excluded and killed, and there are still conflicts going on today about tribal issues that have been ongoing for hundreds of years.
I don’t think there is a solution

build your own website? it won't work the purpose of every small freedom of speech or information website is to be purchased buy a large company and controlled it keeps up the illusion of freedom of speech hell look at rotten tomatoes is a perfect example for you I don't doubt that the internet will revert back to the way it used to be all by design of course the government will section off certain parts of the internet this will make it far easier to control because the community will control itself there will be less outliers then and everyone will be happy because this is what they wanted. what you wanted 😉

The funny thing is though. Amino is kinda like that. Since every community/fandom is separated. Where everything you ever want to stay in one community stays on it. We will of course have a crossover here and there. But that's why I'm still using it this day as it's just easier to go there and say to myself. "Let's see what is going on today"
It's pretty relaxing in my opinion. The only thing that kept me stress however was doing rps but besides that. I feel safe and calm. ^^

Can you tell me everything about myspace from how it began and how it ended

Yes, specially americans 🌈🌈🌈

​@@stureremil9873Sorry, but you might be causing the same problems as described in the video. It's good to refrain from generalizing just one group, but recognize this brain-fogging era of social media is affecting ALL of us. Just like the video said, it's happening all over the world, and that is important to know.

@@Reset-sm6rg and who is invented the cancel culture? Fat acceptance? American start all of it.. its not about generalized my guy.. if they doing stupid stuff people copying the stupid stuff..

Not really because it sounds like an excuse, but then again.

​@@stureremil9873You can forgive them.

Average conversation with right-wingers that share the same brain cell:

Jesus that’s depressing.

I see people differently due to what I've learned and what I've experienced. Some people will judge you and try to make you feel different based off of their thoughts and beliefs, like those 2 individuals for example. Sadly, humanity has already divided itself into groups based off of social constructs. It's best to just prove people wrong rather than try to convince them in a conversation.

Remember you’re not in the wrong. They’re only harming themselves

record them and post them in social media 😂😂😂

4th and 5th dimension start somewhere.

Maybe it's for the better we don't take the next step. We are only a few steps from xenophobic space colonialism and nuking earth.
Ever wondered that maybe we were not supposed to "evolve" more?

True. We can only keep repeating the same mistakes over and over for so long...

​@@furiousdestroyah9999 watch the video

@@tavernburner3066 Already did

This video is about how spending time in real life drives your views away from reality. The internet is bad because it shows you too much reality. Your brain isn't prepared for reality.

Internet can't do anything to you, it's a tool for you to use and utilize.

​@@KartikChauhan__KCthat's not completely true

@@KartikChauhan__KC I agree it cant do anything to you physically. But it can influence your point of view and make you think in a specific way without you knowing it, which is also explained beautifully in the video. Of course you can use it as a tool to do good. But the same can be said the other way around

Man I wasn't even born in that era and even I miss the charm the old internet had

People nowadays forget the most crucial rule about the internet
It isn't because it is on internet that it is factually true
The sheer amount of people who sees half a thing on Facebook, Twitter or TikTok and just go panicking over it "because I saw it there!" without proper fact-checking really shows this

SHONKY? eh? what on earth is Shonky?🤣🤣

lol great point, message boards never felt like The World for me, it was a place to banter, it didn't feel like real life or had any actual implications. AOL chat rooms were places to banter and flirt maybe find a lover. Social media began to bleed into reality like the things done and said on it WERE real life and would be reviewed for the entire world to judge. This isn't just Twitter but everywhere online. The brilliant thing Google does with its social media is not necessarily connect what you say on here with your real life profile. So if I never want to engage I just don't read my notifications but if I google what I said or google I don't see a bunch of stuff connected to me.
If you tweet with your IRL name it can get back to you in a bad way.

@@anthonyortiz350 Sounds like a dorky Brit who got that as a nickname after a drunk night in college

This exact idea is why I really only interact with reddit as a social media. I can focus my interactions into the communities that interest me, and once I have the information/entertainment I need, I can leave and not feel bad about it

I'm thinking about the queation: "Is KRplus a kind of social media platform?"
I mean, there is a similar engagement fokused algorythm, opinions, groups (channels) you join etc.
If it is, is it fractured enough (as in the proposed solution in this video) to not social sort people as much?

My roommate and I never got into social media, don't use any of it at all, and we've always referred to it as literal cancer. That's since it was invented & to this very day.

I too only see videos in KRplus, and have left all other social medias. I too think this (aka our team ;) ) is better than the... other team, but I see that there is another team who has positives and negatives, and we need to somehow reach out to them, because the planet is on fire yo, and we need to work this out, just.. not me.. not today.
But this analysis made me realise this, I did not realise it before and now I feel I need to do something about this.
I am not even sure how to make my wife see this video, who likes Kurzgesagt but does not like sitting for 20 mins and watching a video.. I dk.

I did not know that you all had to write an English essay

It’s never gonna happen unfortunately. You can’t please these inflated ego billionaires.

@@AronJFwhile online blogs like MySpace and others don’t really exist anymore, there are still forums and blogs people run dedicated to individual interests, so you can in fact still browse those or make your own, however it’s more time consuming and requires an actual engagement and sometimes effort to use them, most people will choose platforms which doesn’t require any effort to use them whatsoever, but if online “downsizing” becomes more of a trend, we may return to some form of old internet eventually.

We traded our freedoms for ease of use. The only way to find anything was a search engine, but the company who created the best search algorithm (Google) ended up choosing where we go and what we look at. And try leaving social media; I stopped using Facebook over half a decade ago and I still have people complaining at me IRL that they sent me something time-sensitive and I didn't look at it in time.

@@RedTiger-uk4xb Amen. I feel ashamed how I have been the problem so often doing similar comments to vent my frustration about myself or the opinion of others instead of confronting what they said. (When trying to normally talk about something, one is perceived as weak, so people just comment in a snarky and "clever" way to appear superior. I hate this monkey brain of mine). So let me apologize in the name of other morons like me who have done the same to you. I'm sincerely sorry!

absolutely 100% totally agree!

who asked?

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

Bro got jumped by bots 😂😂

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Everyone should use ground news

Ground news is much worse than allsides

I love Ground. It’s a fantastic way to view the world in a nuanced way by looking into differing opinions.

I made the likes 299, your welcome.

Internet has become really toxic after the lockdown period. People have gone crazy

I usually say "Why are you acting like this?" or "What did I do to you?".

Nah, from their perspective, they think they're helping you become a better person through bullying. Or they don't see themselves as "mean" because they're just acting how they themselves have been treated their whole life

Misery likes company, they like to make people miserable because they are. They’re good at calling their insults "jokes", it hurts the ones whose jokes are not intended to harm.

@@Gridkeeperr Exactly

Anonymity breeds contempt, and for most internet cretins they dehumanize the other people they interact with online.
"They're not real people, they're interweb people, and I'm not holding _anything_ back."
There's literally no repercussions for them if they offend, insult, harass, demean or make a fool of themselves. It's consequence free. My fear is one day our internet self will be tied to a SSN and the death of internet anonymity. Where insulting someone on the internet will get you real-life consequences. It'd solve a lot of problems sure... but it would change the internet forever.
There'll always be the darkweb though so the way the internet is now will never be truly gone. I feel the front face of the internet has an expiration date though...

That's true. Look at online gaming people can flame all they want until they get confronted in person.

definitely true, ive even seen someone straight up admit it in a comment section and act righteous about it

Completely true. There's a lot of social cues and communication that cannot be conveyed online. Our brains are not wired to communicate this way and they really struggle to cope sometimes. A lot of people don't understand that your brain is doing a lot of stuff when you're just simply talking to someone face-to-face. Lots of hormones and chemicals and nervous system responses are going on. It's impossible to get that right across the internet.

I feel like that a lot like I play Fortnite with a friend and I’m so mean but in real life I’m so nice. I can’t help it.

Someone actually threatened to doxx me when I pointed out to them that I'm a stranger on the internet in an argument.