Thread by @Timcast

The phenomenon of people making disgusting food in disgusting ways is fascinating to me

It will have a profound affect on our children and what they think and eat

While this is all fake now it will soon become real

1/

https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1414481488834347015

the goal of these videos is to be shocking and disturbing so that you share it with your friends and they get more views

there is no real convenience to what this guy does

2/

you may have seen other videos where women put burgers, fries, pickles, etc into a blender

or pouring pasta on a countertop

again it makes no sense to do this but people can't help but share it

3/

Here's where it gets really interesting

Children who stumble upon these videos won't know that its bait content and not legitimate

They will see these videos in passing and take it seriously

4/

theres lots of other content that did this, notably BLM/intersectionality content

Let me explain

5/

in the early days of VC funded blogs and facebook the new algorithm was feeding shock content to people

Blogs knew that if they started posting ragebait theyd get more shares

6/

Content about racism and sexism shared better because rage is the emotion that gets the most shares

But then something happened

7/

people realized that by combining shock terms they could get even more clicks

You start to see all different keywords mashed into one article for maximum algorithm drive

So "trans" "people of color" "women" "cops" all start finding themselves in the same articles more often

8/

Now you have kids who were 10 years old during the start of the ragebait drive who have spent 10 years living in that hellscape

But they believe it is reality and thus gives rise to the woke political arm

9/

This is why you see insane batshit garbage like Rainbow Dildo Butt Monkey teaching kids to read

algorithms have driven people completely insane

10/

For those of us that are in our mid to late thirties, we mostly saw through this

More importantly we already had a worldview before the rise of ragebait

though some still fell into the rabbit hole

11/

Now this is a lot more serious than cooking salmon in a coffee maker

But think about where this leads us when people start one upping the insanity of "coffee maker sunny D Salmon"

12/

How long until we see

Curling iron pancakes
radiator scrambled eggs
steam iron steamed meats and veggies

obviously its easier to use the specific tools for the job but people gotta get those clicks

13/

How long until kids today are so batshit warped out of their minds they live lives

wearing rainbow pussy hats while ironing their waffles on the counter top and filming a video about it then adding a filter to make themselves look like some kind of animal person

14/

We wonder why after all of this batshit insane algo content people have identity crises and it seems to be getting worse

Maybe nothing will come of it

Or maybe kids today take it all seriously and think its real life and get fucked in the head

fin/