[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Let's face it.... for every fake extreme feminism video there is, you can match it with an extreme misogynistic video.

Maybe, speak to real people and realise most people just want equality and not an "I'm better than you" rhetoric.

Youtube isn't real life, my kid watches someone who has made millions playing frigging minecraft....youtube is.not real life

Problem is that Youtube, Tiktok and the like can radicalise people quite easily due to the algorithm. Take little Alf, He starts by watching one or two right wing videos, this starts a rabbit hole effect, he begins consuming Fox News videos, then conspiracy videos, and now incel videos. He now believes every one of them. It's a shock and awe tactic really, blitz someone with enough of these videos and they'll start to take what's being said as gospel.

There's a lot of studies and research on it, it's quite worrying really. I remember back in the height of the Andrew Tate stuff, there was this experiment where someone made several new profiles on TikTok, and they listed themselves as being a teenage boy with no specific interests or preferences and they were basically being recommended Andrew Tate tiktoks by default within a short few minutes of scrolling.