Doom slop has flooded the internet — Transcript

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1. 0:00Well, the experts are unanimous. We are
2. 0:02all doomed. You need to stock up on
3. 0:04food, water, gasoline, ammo as soon as
4. 0:07possible. Pay $10,000 for a generator.
5. 0:09Don't forget to build a solar-powered
6. 0:11farmhouse somewhere far away from the
7. 0:13city just in case, you know, the fuel
8. 0:14supply completely runs out and or the
9. 0:16Chinese detonate an EMP over your
10. 0:18neighborhood or something like that.
11. 0:19These are all basic steps that you
12. 0:21should be taking right now so that in
13. 0:23the event of a total catastrophe, you
14. 0:25won't be overtaken by the inevitable
15. 0:27zombie horde that results. So, at least
16. 0:29not right away. These are the kinds of
17. 0:30messages that we have all been bombarded
18. 0:32with. I've been bombarded with over the
19. 0:34past few days as the algorithm has
20. 0:36decided to confront me and I think many
21. 0:38of us with every imaginable doomsday
22. 0:41scenario all at once. Now, on one level,
23. 0:43this is nothing new. There's always been
24. 0:44a market for hysteria and paranoia. Fear
25. 0:48is, as we know, a lucrative industry.
26. 0:50And now this market is bigger than ever
27. 0:52thanks to amplification from the various
28. 0:54big tech platforms. You know, if you
29. 0:56interact with just one post on X about
30. 0:58how, say, the UK government is telling
31. 1:00people to prepare for an emergency, as I
32. 1:02did, then, as I was, you will be quickly
33. 1:05overwhelmed with all of this kind of
34. 1:07stuff. And this is what my feed looks
35. 1:09like right now, more or less. It's just
36. 1:11full-on apocalyptic, non-stop. Every
37. 1:14story is something along these lines.
38. 1:16Once you're swept up by the algorithm,
39. 1:18it just it just floods you with a
40. 1:21firehose of doom slop. And this is how
41. 1:23the algorithm works, of course. You
42. 1:24interact with one kind of piece of
43. 1:26content and it just feeds you only that
44. 1:29for weeks at a time. And as you can see,
45. 1:31various governments, as we are seeing on
46. 1:33X, including America and the UK, are
47. 1:35warning of an impending disaster. The
48. 1:37power grid's about to get wiped out, and
49. 1:39so on. There's no way to see content
50. 1:41like this day after day and remain
51. 1:43unaffected by it. Even if you are a
52. 1:44rational person, as I try to be on my
53. 1:47good days, anyway, it still it gets in
54. 1:49your