Re:The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
by Traubenfuchs on Thursday July 23, 2020 @03:28AM
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I spent my youth on 4chan. I saw everything that's mentioned in the article and worse.
Desensitization is certainly a thing. The first few times seeing those things were shocking and disturbing. Then it got exciting. Then it got boring. I don't actively look for that content, but never having left 4chan, I still sometimes stumble upon it and it causes no big reaction. I think I could totally do that content moderation job, I have to admit some morbid curiosity about what I would stumble upon exists in me. The only content that never stopped to disturb me was violence against animals.
Talking with my "normie" friends about this I realized I am the odd one out. I wonder just how much consuming that content in my youth changed me.
Desensitization is certainly a thing. The first few times seeing those things were shocking and disturbing. Then it got exciting. Then it got boring. I don't actively look for that content, but never having left 4chan, I still sometimes stumble upon it and it causes no big reaction. I think I could totally do that content moderation job, I have to admit some morbid curiosity about what I would stumble upon exists in me. The only content that never stopped to disturb me was violence against animals.
Talking with my "normie" friends about this I realized I am the odd one out. I wonder just how much consuming that content in my youth changed me.