squirrelM to GhaziEnglish · 4 days agoWe Underestimate the Manosphere at Our Perilwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up113file-text
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minus-squareBreadstickNinja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 days agoI see this phenomenon in my own feed. Watch a video about an upcoming video game? Boom, anti-feminism videos in the recommended section. Watch stand-up comedy? Immediately it’s all Kill Tony and bottom-tier regressive shit. Even watching stuff like PBS SpaceTime will get your queue loaded with Brian Cox specifically being interviewed on Joe Rogan. The idea that this is the same content being served up to impressionable young people is terrifying.
I see this phenomenon in my own feed.
Watch a video about an upcoming video game? Boom, anti-feminism videos in the recommended section.
Watch stand-up comedy? Immediately it’s all Kill Tony and bottom-tier regressive shit.
Even watching stuff like PBS SpaceTime will get your queue loaded with Brian Cox specifically being interviewed on Joe Rogan.
The idea that this is the same content being served up to impressionable young people is terrifying.