I like that term too, can be used to describe a lot of soulless, cash-grabbing media. Fiction made for views, publicity, or money. Not for art.
I mean, if anybody is going to be the one to notice weird happenings on the internet, it's a terminally online imageboard user. Perhaps some of their observations are schizo, but the idea still resonates with a lot of people.
Doesn't he say at the beginning of the thread that he first posted it to Wizardchan though? Perhaps he reposted it to Agora Road sometime afterwards to give some permanence?
God I hope not. Reminds me of a sci-fi short story, "The Room" by Ray Russell. Except that was more about non-stop advertisements, the idea of actual slop-content hadn't really occurred to anyone yet.
No way! The government would never have the private sector do their dirty work. You are just crazy and seeing things that aren't there!!@CyberAutist111 I remember reading that a long time ago. One thing I've always found interesting is, as the post mentions, Darpa's LifeLog. It says that Facebook was created "not long after" LifeLog got cancelled, but it's actually far more crazy than that.
LifeLog was created as a way to follow people from birth to death, document a person's whole life digitally. Ofcourse, Darpa being a government agency, got flak for creating this.
Specifically, the objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to every breath taken, step made and place gone"
Citing privacy issues, Darpa abandoned it on Februari 4th 2004
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DARPA LifeLog - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Now, what was founded on Februari 4th 2004? The exact same day?
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you can show the algorithm who's the boss by scrolling to the bottom and not clicking any thumbnails. if enough people did that, youtube wouldn't earn anything from ads.
I got so fed up with the YT algo and the shitty recommendations, I actually hid the Related Videos section using a Tampermonkey script.
// ==UserScript==
// @name YouTube Remove Related
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 1.0
// @description Remove "related videos" section
// @match https://www.youtube.com/*
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
function removeRelated()
{
removeElement("//div[@id='chat-container']");
removeElement("//div[@id='donation-shelf']");
removeElement("//div[@id='player-ads']");
removeElement("//ytd-watch-next-secondary-results-renderer");
};
function removeElement(xPath) {
let elem = document.evaluate(xPath, document, null, XPathResult.FIRST_ORDERED_NODE_TYPE, null).singleNodeValue;
if (elem != null)
{
elem.parentNode.removeChild(elem);
}
}
function removeElements(xPath)
{
let tags = document.evaluate(xPath, document, null, XPathResult.ORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE, null);
for (let i = 0; i < tags.snapshotLength; i++)
{
let tag = tags.snapshotItem(i);
if (tag != null)
{
tag.parentNode.removeChild(tag);
}
}
}
// Create a MutationObserver that calls the removeRelated function when changes occur in the document's subtree
const mutationObserver = new MutationObserver(removeRelated);
mutationObserver.observe(document, { subtree: true, childList: true });
})();