Peak social media - The Rise of Anti-Flock Influencers Who Make Things Up for Clout

How embarrassing that this is what people are doing to create viral content.

www.404media.co/the-rise-of-anti-flock-influencers-who-make-things-up-for-clout/

• Nothing on the internet is real.

• Don’t feed the trolls.

I feel like if there was a dedicated class in schools worldwide, that just did nothing but teach these two things over and over again, the world would be a better place.

…Because the fundamental issue is that people are believing this guy. And feeding him. He is a troll, making cash being a troll; he cannot help himself. But the public maybe possibly can.

Holy shit that had been what I have been saying from what we learned in the BBS days.

Basically anyway:

• everyone one on the internet is a liar
• stay anonymous, and because everyone else is too: see rule 1
• dont feed the trolls.

I wish my real name was Lucifer :(

But also, I wanted to look up the history of BBS and had to spell out “bulletin board” to get the right results from DDG, so maybe what you learned thirty+ years ago just isn’t common sense among people that weren’t even on the internet when that market collapsed.

(I myself didn’t see the heyday either; I learned those lessons in games and on forum boards in the aughts and tens.)

You are correct, the person I responded to is right, it’s one of the things that should a mandatory class.