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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by Xplune13 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @08:22AM (#27129436)
Nowadays, any simple comment can be interpreted on any extreme and everything in between.

Anecdotally, in my experience, this shift is really visible for 3-4 years now. I don't know what changed in these recent years or what caused that shift to become so drastic (again, in my experience). Internet gave a stage to these interpretation even though they were there previously in low volume.

But even on the internet, this wasn't the case until 5-6 years ago, at least not to this level (or so I think).

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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by tjs8rj on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @10:51AM (#27131002)
My pet theory that fits the timeline pretty well is that when Tumblr died and they migrated to Twitter, what was incubated and contained on Tumblr dramatically changed the demographics of twitter and became more mainstream. Most of the last few years of change have been commonplace on tumblr up to that point, but we just kind of laughed and pointed out how ridiculous it was. Now it’s the mainstream
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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by Xplune13 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:42PM (#27133050)
It might be. Personally I never had a Tumblr account, never even visited their website. It was just a name I'd heard. Tumblr was so far out of my life that I didn't even notice that Tumblr died.
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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by InitialLastName on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @11:11AM (#27131266)
There's a feedback loop between:

a) systems like Twitter giving people dopamine bumps and internet points for strong emotional responses to the most extreme interpretation of anything anyone says and

b) peoples training their brains to have strong emotional responses to the most extreme interpretation of anything anyone says

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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by Xplune13 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @01:46PM (#27133091)
Yes, but I don't remember all this being so extreme even until 4-5 years ago on Twitter.

From my experience, something changed around 2017 and now Twitter is a war zone.

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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by vimy on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:44PM (#27133698)
The start of the Trump era. Trump made the left blind for the extremists on their side. Because criticizing them would mean siding with Trump. Not true of course but that’s what you get when people start to think in absolutes. “You’re either with us or part of the problem.“
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Re:Why do older individuals have greater control of their fe... by inglor_cz on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#27133919)
I think a lot of the public space toxicity that we now witness is an extreme reaction to Trump. An autoimmune disease of sorts, but in a social context instead of biological one.
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