The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men
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#2What the actual fuck
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#3But have we weighed the social impact of teens not publishing themselves online to pervs? /s
This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far.
Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. Internet. I'd say "don't put unwitting strangers on the internet" too, but it's less targeted unless you're stalking a stranger, and I suspect too many HNers are Instagram users for that to be popular.
Also this is your too-often reminder that child beauty pageants are still popular in many places. Anyone taking attendance at those? Seriously, the status quo and what people are accustomed to biases people's norms in extreme ways and we just never seem to put that in context.
My point being, we have fucking pageants for children to get dolled up and pranced about for adults to watch, and here we are, off to the next horror-porn-horror travesty we all know is likely going to continue slowly getting more and more wack, as the norms shift.
I hate how 99% of the planet has no ability to consider long-term reprocussions of decisions, or worse, are incentivized to self-deluded about them. "Let's appeal to things that work in marketing and put our teenage daughter on the internet". Sounds like a god damn comedy sketch.
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#5https://archive.is/Myagt
Start prosecuting and jailing some execs at Meta and let's see how fast they can fix "the algorithm."
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#6The first paragraph is enough to raise my skepticism bells immediately. The mom—a marketing person—videoed her pre-teen daughter "dancing" and "modelling", put it on a public Instagram page, and oversaw the growth in viewership... but it was for "bonding with friends and family" she says. Right.
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#7> While Meta bans children under the age of 13 from independently opening social-media accounts, the company allows what it calls adult-run minor accounts, managed by parents.
This is the problem. This woman just "sold" her daughter for money.
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#8But have we weighed the social impact of teens not publishing themselves online to pervs? /s This, like every other problem with pervasive brainrot technology, and hell good old fashioned ways to shut a brain off, will be talked about for years. Nothing will be done. Things in 10 years will feel normal and be unimaginable now. Thus is humanity for the 30 years I've been here so far. Don't. Put. Your. Kids. On. The. I…
The parents rationalizing exposing their children to predators online seem almost as bad as the mealy-mouthed execs at Meta blaming their own software, as if they have no idea how to filter hashtags or block encrypted uploads.
I'd like to see Meta execs prosecuted and jailed for allowing this, and exposing the members of Congress taking money from Meta.
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#9The first paragraph is enough to raise my skepticism bells immediately. The mom—a marketing person—videoed her pre-teen daughter "dancing" and "modelling", put it on a public Instagram page, and oversaw the growth in viewership... but it was for "bonding with friends and family" she says. Right.
Not much to admire about the mom's rationalizations, but Meta has a large-scale problem with promoting child porn on Instagram. It goes way beyond this one example. Look at the WSJ articles linked from this one.
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