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Honey, YouTubers Are Poisoning the Kids
Inauthentic authenticity and the gross practice of selling shit to kids
His content was micro-optimized, relentlessly tweaked, endlessly analyzed and overly manufactured to bleed the algorithm dry, all to draw in the eyes of blissfully ignorant kids who think he’s a cool guy who does this stuff just for laughs, and not, you know, to make himself filthy rich and masturbate his ego. It’s an almost zero health value meal of a sugary electrolyte drink (with a healthy dose of lead), a chocolate bar and some small cracker snack. The sad reality is that the whole system is set up to brainwash vulnerable minds at as young an age as possible — another consequence of technology entering their lives far too early.
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