I’m no Mr beast fan, but the dystopia you feel isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of our society. It’s the fact that some people have to rely on a clickbait youtubers generosity to have vision surgery, instead of it being freely available. It’s the fact that inequality is so rampant and ever growing due to our infinite capacity for greed.

I mean you nailed it. It’s entertainment - validation for people who want to buy the shiny new Apple thing. “Look how cool it looks in these artsy shots”, forgetting it’s a carbon copy of last year’s model.

Interesting point about tourniquets is that improper use can be worse than just not using one. If it’s tied too loose you compress the superficial veins but not the deeper arteries, increasing blood loss.

CGP Grey is personally painful to me. He used to be a no-nonsense education youtube legend, but in the last few years he’s just maximised clickability - even going thorugh his whole back catalogue and changing titles and thumbnails.

For example, he made a great video about generative adversarial networks ~5 years ago but now its titled “How machines like ChatGPT learn” - despite coming out before GPT.

Anger is an extremely effective way to spread an idea.

Posts which incite emotion in you make you engage - upvote, comment and share. CGP Grey (a redditor himself) made a great video about this a while ago.

We can only hope Lemmy users are more self-aware, and choose to engage with things they enjoy more than things they hate. But given human psychology, it’s unlikely…