individuality

last updated 0 minutes ago at the risk of telling on myself - weird person online sees weird things in their algorithm and thinks that everyone sees said weird thing everywhere! - my algorithm on YouTube is really trying to push a few uncharitable and annoying narratives about other people recently. namely: no one is authentic any more; no one has original ideas these days; every creator and artist and everyone in between is a carbon copy of each other. naturally, i click the options menu on every single one and send them back to hell where they belong (‘not interested’ or ‘don’t recommend channel’ buttons are not strong enough, i need ‘morally wounds me’ and ‘what a bad day to be online’ buttons). but i still think about them obviously! given the rise and even more meteoric rise of AI, fakeness and “the same but different! now with even more artefacts!!” are bound to be on people’s minds. online you’re told to be yourself, but only if yourself is interesting, not cringe, and ideally…

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