When they complain about social media, they aren’t completely wrong about Big Tech. But the old saying holds true, two wrongs don’t make a right.
It’s extremely trendy right now for the cult leader type personalities to throw in some commentary about how Big Tech is out to get them. They’re trying to stop me because my content is so mind bogglingly awesome and life changing that you will understand how evil Big Tech is in their role as at least a subsidiary of the chosen scapegoat. (A scapegoat that can never be agreed upon between two different cult leaders. Aliens, reptiles, Jesuits, Joe Biden or whatever other two/three digit numbers you worship.)
Choice A - They are completely delusional and don’t understand that the fairly basic paradox they are involved in makes no sense. Posting a video about YouTubing being completely down on YouTube? Yep. Just happened a couple days ago? Turning off comments on the cult leader’s videos, randomly not across an entire channel? The incompetent evil empire has displayed their might by allowing the worshippers to access the complaint hotline instead of scrubbing them from the internet entirely. Which is the topic of the video the screenshot is from. Social media is censoring us, but those slipped through the cracks.
Choice B - The target audience is filled with people with a targeted individual mentality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking
And not the actual mob action where a bounty is put out and a seek and destroy mission is put in place. It’s the delusional and paranoid belief that invisible bogeyman are hiding under the bed, in the closet, wearing evil colors of clothes and believe that 56 is some dreaded symbol of doom instead of the number before 57 and after 55. You know, the people that real life has an identified as being less than worthy in holding an intellectual and adult conversation and they’ve been told about being wrong for most of their lives.
I’m going with choice B. Faking technical difficulties is really easy, and having so much technical difficulty now as social media hasn’t even had a major outage to complain about is just too weird. Like jumping on the bandwagon attention seeking weird.
Never growing out of an imaginary childhood friend is weird. Creating an imaginary enemy is weird and self destructive. Someone invested in imaginary enemies is not in a good place mentally, and here faux technical difficulty complaints serve as a variation of the Attaboy!TM, a reverse Attaboy. I’m being picked on, too! I’m part of this same crowd that has the magic secret knowledge and they’re out to get me, too! Dear leader! Pick me! Pick me! Reply to my comment amongst the many others also complaining about it!
Using YouTube to complain about YouTube censorship a la choice A is a bit much. Most commonly over the years has been milder complaints. And these have been popping up lately with alarming frequency. They turned off my notifications. (Which they do, but not based on your stance on truth.) I liked the video but the counter didn’t change. They keep deleting my comments. I had to restart the video three times. All of these supplemented by easily channel owner controlled actions. The maker of a YouTube video can turn off comments. The maker can delete comments. The maker can create a sock puppet commenter to push the fake censorship narrative. The maker can delete a video and claim it was Big Tech community strike freedom of speech assault. And the target audience may throw in occasional, “it works ok for me”, but they wont get to a point where they’ll apply Occam’s Razor and figure out that their beloved leader is fudging the narrative.
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