Tiktok Theorist slop

[medievalmaxxer]

There's no such thing as bad publicity?  Maybe all the TikTok silliness will spark an interest in a new generation with some new ideas.

 
Yes, and, there's a real risk that this leaves misinformation in people's minds even after it goes away. So, good and bad consequences to this whole fiasco.

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The audience for this sort of thing are people who will not spot this kind of thing until they are in too deep to emotionally disengage. There are usually asks for money, sometimes for a service, sometimes called "mutual aid", but at any rate it's about developing an audience who will defend the in-group so that they can ask for money. It targets people who are vulnerable and seeking community, which describes a lot of women with (often fundamentally justified!) rage at misogyny and patriarchy

I've seen conflicting judgments from people who research these kinds of groups how consciously the people at the heart of it are building that ecosystem, but that is the shape of things. The easily spotted AI slop and extremist views are features, not bugs. We probably won't see a lot of people come over from inside these circles, but im told by a friend they got a YouTube recommendation about it so it's broken containment

Yes! I am also upset that this is giving many misogynists fuel to discourage female participation in academic discourse! Conspiracy theorists exist in both sexes, but unfortunately stuff like this is only holding the microscope, as it were, over women.