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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by yifanl on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @11:56AM (#39992162)
The difference between the internet of the 2000s and the 2010s is how profitable it was to push things. No one got paid to get me to click on lemonparty, they did it because it was (to them) funny. Nowadays, there are industries that exist solely to get me to click on garbage, and it turns out profit is a much more powerful motive than comedy.

I can ignore/laugh with/block/modreport That One Guy, I can't do anything about an infinite number of marketers.

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Re:Yes, Social Media Is a Cause of the Epidemic of Teenage M... by spxneo on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @12:02PM (#39992233)
just a testament to how much freedom of speech and expression we had then vs now

hai2u has strangely been scrubbed from the internet while lemonparty, meatspin, 2girls1cup lives on

the person in hai2u was actually jailed for the content he produced in American court

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