• KeithD@lemmy.nz
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    Meidas Touch. Clickbait headlines and thumbnails, unrealistically optimistic takes on things. I want information, not bullshit.

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      Theres that one thumbnail where trump looks like shit and it sorta looks like he’s a building imploding and collapsing in on himself. His head is at a weird angle and he looks like he’s actively dying.

      Medias touch uses that thumbnail at least twice a week with a title like “it’s finally happening, trump collapses”

      I fucking hate trump and can’t wait for the nightmare of his administration to be over, but if you’ve said twice a week for a year that “its finally happening” I know one thing for sure, you have no idea whats happening or when it is going to happen.

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      I swear they used to be really good. I’m with you though, I cut bait. I got so tired of optimistic titles narratives and bullshit that were so obviously overblown and dumb. Like excitedly tossing somebody twigs while they’re drowning. I really like the lawyer guy when he’s just talking facts, seems like a smart dude. Just couldn’t take it anymore.

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      yes and i mean i get it: he’s fighting the hyper-sensationalist republicans with their same tools but i found the titles exhausting after a while. jack coccherella had the same thing going on. as well as dhl and a few others.

      once the algorithm starts getting out of control it is overwhelming. it started manufacturing a weird sort of media unduced depression. and im not a depressed person so that was a real scarey feeling to experience.

      i had to cut out all the doom scroll politics for my own mental health.

      now i just watch youtube for instructional tutorials like i dunno, how to play a song on an instrument or clean the coffee maker or make mug bread. seems way more sustainable.