Very quickly, Hannah... Please remember that not all of this is 'about the money.' A gigantic part of it is about social programming. In fact, that's the reason for the existence of social media. Thanks! 🙂
The ad portion of the video was actually satire, right? Because the pretending you received that package at your home.... nooo way. Those are the most empty house, kitchen and fridge in the world, not even filming at an Airbnb would show such a fake house 😅
I've gone back to saying that. Also saying report, report, report. The latest trend I'm seeing is what I call DARVO kings, young men who start stuff and then act all hurt when people clap back. I got taken in by a couple before I realized what they were doing. Now I just block.
The modern version is "report, block, move on" or what we really need to say "report, block, TOUCH GRASS!!" So many people commenting need to touch grass. Please touch the grass.
Game ads use rage bait as well. They make it look like someone is finding an easy puzzle difficult. This makes people think "ugh I could do that easily!" And they download the app.
No kidding and then sometimes they'll even make it so that you have to engage with the game in some way in order to end the stupid ad, it's infuriating
The one that really makes me headscratch is the one with the AI Snape negging the player, who is using a soldering iron for a stylus--and that's, strangely enough, not what Snape is negging them over.
@@soapygirl83fr I’m just tryna draw on ibspaint and then like its fucking “water sort” or “ball sort” where u have to put the colours back together to end the ad its so annoying 😭
You believe too much in the system. It’s not designed to be effective. These options are only designed to make you feel like you have some kind of control over your social media consumption
We scoff at how older people can't tell they are being scammed by emails and callers. But younger people are definitely unable to tell which content is real and which is fake. We automatically believe anything on social media, and think we could never fall for it. But with rage bait, clickbait, AI, etc. It's clear we can't tell the difference.
Some time ago there was this narrative of "digital natives", as if just by growing up with a computer/tablet/phone in your hand made you not just able to use it at a basic level, but also magically gave you a deeper understanding. It doesn't, and this is one of the consequences.
I think 5 minute crafts started this - remember their videos on Facebook? People rage-shared them EVERYWHERE and it came to a point where we realized they must be doing this on purpose.
Can't stand that crappy channel and all the other content farms. I can't tell you how many of those stupid channels I've either blocked or have pushed the do not recommend button on. Some of their stuff is so dangerous.
They certainly helped make it very popularized! It’s been a thing for pretty much as long as the Internet has been a thing and even before that (an easy example is tabloids in magazines) it’s just that it’s on such a large scale now and very mainstream. I think it was previously mostly sequestered to niche media, interests, audiences, regions, etc.
on the flip side, i love that they've cheated the system, goddamn. They're not abusing anyone, most of these are women being slightly annoying at first and then they just amp that up and get a load of engagement and $ from people that don't know how to scroll past. Queen shit honestly.
It’s bad enough that people who are adults that know what life before for the Internet is like or judging this content being able to discern from reality and BS. But to a child this is actually dangerous into their perception of reality and healthy living.
I actually LOVE this content creator because she is making money off of the haters, but some of her voiceovers don't match the videos, especially when she spoke about losing one of her parents due to sickness and how that affected her, while she's doing these robot Barbie Trad Wife actions.
Same. I will never watch these or seek them out, but I'm a petty lil' gremlin who wants to be mad at people anyways. Now I can do it without feeling like I'm polluting the environment or something by engaging.
The only place where I will look at rage bait at all is Reddit. They are not getting my view on a platform, where it makes them actual money. I also love watching Michelle Mc Daniels for all the juicy internet feuds.
The scary ones for me are the people posting 'cleaning' content where they put like 50 cleaning products in their toilets, often mixing bleach and ammonia which creates a toxic gas. Like, yeah they're probably not actually using those chemicals, but someone else emulating them (either for ragebait content or to actually clean) could cause serious harm or death.
I remember seeing that toilet cleaning one. It was so frustrating that I wanted to comment so bad but something told me it was supposed to do that so I walked away quietly haha.
so many people have died creating literal mustard gas doing these aesthetic cleanings. using more than 1 product is not going to make your toilet or bathroom cleaner, it just looks like it’s working harder to clean. regardless, always have proper ventilation even when cleaning properly. never good to inhale chemicals directly but also NOT MUSTARD GAS
Another way I’ve noticed that influencers rage bait is by putting text on their videos and you barely have a chance to read it. It leads to people re-watching the video to try to pause at the appropriate spot and comment about their frustration.
Yup. And they misspell a lot of words. One of my favorite influencer started doing that or she woukd say things like "I needs to brush my face and wash my teeth. " I stopped following or supporting right away. I do know she lost all her followers so it didn't work for her.
Plus, people will comment on it, then get notified of other comments, go back to the video to read those comments, sometimes re-comment, and sometimes re-watch the video to remind themselves of why they where mad, perpetuating the cycle.
"She has absolutely grown her platform on the back of these rage-baiting ice-cream sandwich videos" is a sentence I never thought would make me laugh so much.
Every time I feel the urge to be angry at a creator, I report the video, and block said creator. I have known long before social media that you cannot explain something that should be understood by default. So, I either scroll by, or if it's especially awful - report/block
This is the correct response. I hope that soon enough people will become wise enough to stop engaging with influencers like that so their content just becomes irrelevant and they have to go away.
I love this approach. We should just refuse to give them the attention they so desperately want. Enough people doing this, they have no option other than go away
The stuff that pisses me off about it is the wastage. Especially when there are so many around the world going hungry and suffering from extreme poverty.
I was just about to comment this! Rage baiting completely aside, the real crime is the wastefulness of the food these people buy - primarily the people who make those rage bait recipes, because I’d like to think that the first mom rage baiting her cheaper by the dozen kids’ food hauls for their mini fridges will get eaten somehow. But the recipes? Likely all thrown out which is just awful.
I try not to think about it. At the end of the day, corporations and businesses waste more food than households and people like this are outliers, not the norm. Not eating that bag of pasta will not feed a hungry child.
@@UdontknowmiI am in the same boat, I’m widely unaffected by rage bait food waste videos. I worked in the food industry for a brief time and what I experienced is what made me genuinely hot with rage. The rage bait videos are nothing, and if people think that’s the epitome of evil wastage, we’re screwed.
That part!!!! People are dying of hunger or can barely feed their children yet thes influencers get paid to basically laugh in those same peoples face😢
You need to worry more about how restaurants throw out insane amounts of food bevause of huge serving sizes and overordering foods. Im Australian and countries like mine and america honestly consume too much of EVERYTHING @@kristinagerth4203
Please cover fitness influencers and their lies about "getting toned in 7 days" and exercises that will "snatch your waist." SO many people do not understand that these are lies.
dr mile just had a fitness model who got an unlicensed skin eating disease!! but yeah, she said they all get procedures. Which anyone with eyes over 20 should know loll
Dr Drew was already problematic, but now he's hooked up with that vshred garbage. Talk about nonsense. Justina Ercole and TeamForNeverLean are two who've debunked some fitness influencers on YT (cough, Blogilates, cough). Highly recommend. They break down why with their qualified fitness training experience. Now I follow Sydney Cummings who's legit. Might try Caroline Girvan again once my endurance for more intense workouts is back on track.
I would respectfully counter that that sort of content is child abuse & exploitation. I am also upset by it. On the rare occasion it pops up on my feed, I report it.
That always makes me really sad, especially the ones that don’t stop after the first time & keep laughing at them or doing/saying the thing that is upsetting the kid. I hate when my son cries, it makes me feel so bad/sad even if he’s fake crying or whining lmao. I never want to make him upset on purpose :( not sure how parents can enjoy seeing their kid in pain or upset, it’s weird.
Lex Delarosa (the "trad wife" that made paper) is actually a trad wife parody account. Some people don't understand that it's parody to the point that she started talking about milking her chickens to make it even more obvious. She comments on her own videos all of the time criticizing herself, saying things people that would get rage-baited would say. It goes over people's heads so much that it's parody, to the point where she was actually invited to talk on a morning show about trad wives because they took her account literally. I was rolling 😂
Yes! I agree with you. She’s legitimately hilarious so me cause it’s so over the top and funny but on the flip side Nara Smith is also super over the top but she’s for real 😂
I’m not sure how this creator (Hannah) critiquing her doesn’t realize Lex is parody 😂 and btw I really like this channel and find it really important to contrast the “insanity of the internet”
I think the problem is that there are still children, and individuals, who aren't able to distinguish rage-bait, and the algorithm feeds off of their ignorance. A massive hoard of 5-18 year old might not understand the consequences of interacting with a rage-bait video. It gets passed around and the video shoots up. Unless there's some way to filter the videos from ignorant viewers there's no way to stop it from being profitable. Heck, half the time the video isn't obviously rage bait until partway through and a person might watch it and think "What did I just watch?" too late. So, basically, it's awesome that you found a way to protect yourself, but it's not really an effective strategy for combating the rage-farmers. :(
I think that’s a fabulous goal. I don’t think I could completely give up social media, but I have been making a concerted effort to stay out of the comment sections because most of them, especially on Facebook. It seems are just vile. I’m lol because I literally just commented that I don’t go to comment sections, but I have significantly reduced how often I read them.
@@ToriE1073 I still have a few but I rarely if ever post anything. I only keep FB for the Marketplace and IG because it's the only place I have to talk to a few friends. Other than that, I have nothing and don't interact with anyone lol
Thanks for sharing such information. Side note: The most egregious rage bait ever is the mistreatment of animals to make fake rescue videos. People please wake up and report those videos. Sickening.
So real. I remember when that Nicole arbour lady was purposefully triggering people with her “dear fat people” video back when people weren’t as used to seeing people expressing “edgy takes” so publicly for views it used to be a weird Reddit 4chan/forum thing for attention starved people
I work for a food bank with our kids’ food programs. A $1 donation used to provide 4 meals; now $1 provides 3. To see so much waste is sad and irresponsible.
@@katasticone You want to donate to a complete stranger on the internet that may have completely made up a story about working for a food bank for kids? Why not donate to a charity that you can actually prove to be legitimate? I mean come on. Use some common sense.
@@dirtyace1668 I'm an adult who works in a technical field. I'm quite confident in my ability to investigate whether the charity is legitimate or not. And here's what I'd most like the internet to grasp, we are capable of two things at once. I can donate to a charity I know and love AND investigate one that is new to me and donate if everything is on the up-and-up.
It's honestly so sad that genuine and good content gets lost in the algorithm because of low engagement while this stuff gets more attention and benefits its creators when they don't deserve it. And it's sadder that we'll probably never see the end of this, there's no solution to this.
When I worked in retail we would get reviews, and I quickly learned people are quick to complain but slow to compliment, rage baiting just feeds on this concept.
It's the same with restaurants. People don't feel inclined to leave a review if they have a positive experience since that is what they expected/they don't have the time to be bothered. However a negative experience immediately warrants the effort of leaving a complaint/review. Which is probably why a lot of restaurants have to actively ask for reviews after each table.
kinda like how people say nothing about one good thing (I assume because it's something most people expect thus shows no appreciation) but won't shut up about one slightly bad thing
@@imdani4997 I'm the opposite, I love to leave good reviews because I want to show appreciation, but never a bad review unless it's really egregious. It's hard out there and if I can make someone feel appreciated, I'd like to ☺️
@@imdani4997 I'm the opposite, I love to leave good reviews because I want to show appreciation, but never a bad review unless it's really egregious. It's hard out there and if I can make someone feel appreciated, I'd like to ☺️
What concerns me in the foster-adopt family is that they are promising stuff to children who have trauma, and then taking that away from them. Plus, they are taking children who have trauma, putting them on the internet, and then exposing them to rage-baiting. It's bad enough for any child, but for one which has a trauma background??? Absolutely not.
There’s also evidence of her allowing them to drink and of her drinking around them… when they have been exposed to PFAS prenatal fetal alcohol syndrome
I think "making mistakes deliberately" is another example for the subtle version of this. Misspellings in instagram posts, verbal errors in videos etc.
Donald Trump does this when he posts on the Internet. When he had Twitter as president, he'd constantly post misspelled words. Either he has the brain of a 10 year old,.or he does it on purpose to rile people up. Both are not good.
@annkathrinhanamond2982 You've never owned a Kindle have you? 😂😂 After six months it seems to be intent on creating a new language! I don't use it to comment online! 😂
On the paint spill, it was also pre-setup. That grey paint starts spilling out of the can before it even hits the ground. The can was open. Paint cans are sealed so tight, you need a tool to open them.
I mean, the drawing book woman got more attention by that little mistake. So why wouldn't she do that. Some viewers will feel sympathy for her for getting all the hate for apparently no reason and they might sympathy buy her product. So I am 100 percent on board with the idea that viewers drive this content at this point.
Definitely, I agree but I think it can be very hard, especially if the person is doing something which is actually harmful, like the couple who threw the paint everywhere. It's easy to fall into the trap of trying to make them understand that what they're doing isn't okay. We just need to accept that there's no reasoning with these people and it's probably better to just report the video.
@@mowgli7_ also for the cookie lady, those terminally online people were hating on a pretty benign video. So props to her for being able to piss those people off even more and make money off of it, they caused it
You can't change human nature. The problem is the social networks and their toxic positivity policy, that don't properly punish negative interactions, or even don't even have an option to express dislike.
Celebrity rage baiting will still make money , her management most probably thought that she won’t be able to have a long term serious career in singing so they went with this route so they can get quick money and popularity whether negative or positive doesn’t matter as long has they are making money.
Yes exactly, she said it in a interview that she did the dance like that because she knew people would make fun of it and watch it a lot of time to make fun of her.
"In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable." Lionel Shriver 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'
Interesting you should quote Shriver! In recent years, she's largely taken to writing rage-baiting fantasy parables about the dangers of "wokeness". She's described transgenderism as a "social mania", thinks immigrants are destroying the UK, and endorsed Ron Desantis for president. We Need to Talk About Kevin is a great book though!
I hate it when content creators get into the trend of titling their videos "I'm quitting." And nothing else, but the video turns out to just be them talking about quitting something completely random and nothing to do with quitting their platform. And then the ads that are 'trying to figure out a puzzle' and the caption says something stupid like "I just can't figure this out! Only 2% can solve this puzzle!" And it's just the person in the ad intentionally failing at the game/puzzle. Immediate block from me cause it's soooo annoying!
I hear you .I especially hate this behaviour on couple channels .They title videos like"I got caught cheating"Or something stupid and then the video is either a dumb prank or a QnA video like what "
Yeah plus the increase of it when Matpat released his retirement. He's really not retired as much as he's not the voiceover that gives you a plot summary of what happened in whatever analog horror that's trending
Oh, I hate this.... I get why youtubers do it, obviously, but the most popular ones clickbaiting like that don't even need to because they already get a lot of regular views it's just greedy tbh
I tell my 9 yr old this all the time (I’m 30) that growing up our parents told us never to share any kind of personal info anywhere online, now people are like yeah here’s my name number address & where I’ll be going out of town for the next few weeks! Blows my mind
I’m also letting my children know how to be careful with what you share online. And for real people now days share absolutely unnecessary things and gets millions of views. Like I don’t need to see what you’re having for breakfast Suzanne! But now people are like “follow me for a day of getting my butthole waxed” ugh the internet is annoying these days.
@jalapeno1119 Everyone born after 2000 will tell you their EXACT age location and school name like…Miss ma’am stop telling ADULTS on the internet you are 14. 💀 Did no one teach you anything??!
To be fair to the mom that made the bread and paper in the princess dress, she didn't turn to rage bait, she turned to parody, which is something i can definitely get behind 😂
Who is she? I have been trying to find her bc she made me laugh! I just can’t seem to where I can watch more of her videos!! If you know who she is please tell me 😂
Yes! This! People who are unable to get that it's parody deserve to be rage-baited 😂 She was clearly mocking those irrealistic trad wife influencers in a funny way.
It's the tapping of the nails on things irks me so much and they all do it, even the ones not rage baiting, it's like they think it makes it more appealing but it really gets under my skin 😂
People's values, integrity, and ethics are so distorted that it grosses me out. The Internet is so valuable, and in many ways, it makes the world better, BUT it is also making so many people extremely idiotic.
It’s really hard to navigate too. I don’t want it to come across my feed AT ALL. A lot of the time I’ll catch it when it’s too late and I’m like DAMN THEY GOT ME 😂I just want to see dogs, food, and funny/wholesome stuff 😭 I’m fine tuning with not giving it any watch time, blocking, and clicking “not interested” or “don’t recommend ”
Dear Hannah, I am an English teacher (a non- native speaker) who has stopped "enjoying language" over time. I even got depressed thinking about the amount of words I've forgotten in both my mother tongue and English after being the best student in my class and pursuing knowledge in any way I could, that I stopped paying attention to how I expressed myself and it's been going on for a long time now. Your eloquence and the way you are able to articulate your thoughts with ease have inspired me and rekindled that old spark in me, so here I am, doing some vocabulary exercises while listening to you talk. This is a beautiful gift you have, to inspire, inform and motivate people to be better, do better and make better choices, perhaps in ways you might not expect. Thank you ❤
What a sweet comment, I smiled after reading it and it wasn’t even for me lol. You deserve to feel proud of yourself for pursuing something that is intellectually stimulating and that you enjoy! I wish you best of luck as you continue to learn for yourself and teach others. 🩷
As a non native speaker English teacher myself I can see where are you coming from. I must say I get frustrated when watching videos of mostly people from the usa that have such a poor eloquence and Hannah is refreshing to listen to also to remember myself that I love English language
Even for me, listen to her is so good and smooth! I am Portuguese native speaker and English is my second language, but when I first heard she talking I felt the same way! 😀
More people need to know about the "don't recommend channel" under the ellipses. Select that, block the garbage and move on. Let them scream into the void.
I hit that button on nearly every other reel that pops up on instagram. Lol. I've laughed wondering how many I have racked up on my "not interested" list.
I think yt even uses this to show more of that specific content you have asked not to be shown lol. Like I specifically block celebrities and celebrity related content but it seems to show up anyway lol.
I’m not gonna lie I think the one with the baby and the homemade paper is actually very very funny! Like anyone who thinks she’s being serious at this point is giving her very well-deserved attention 😂😂😂
and she is doing NOTHING harmful or unethical. She is literally the opposite of all these food wasters! I actually like that she leaned in to the whole disney princess mannerisms because it makes it obvious how unrealistic it is while still actually doing the thing like making the paper. Gave me a great idea for a fun project to do someday with my own kiddo. i've only ever seen it done with blue jeans but i like the egg cartons way more!
It brought back fond memories of my siblings and me "making our own paper" from the scraps in the bottom of the recycling bin. And yes, it was extremely obvious it was non-serious. I think at best, it can be soothing in some of the same ways that the coloring videos are.
My favorite part was the sad beige baby aspect where the tablecloth is beige, the kids are dressed in beige. Points off for the bright yellow boots and colorful crayons. She’ll have to work on that.
The number of times I almost tried to scroll past the clips you were showing😂 I used to get this type of content ALL the time and had to keep selecting “stop showing me this” or whatever it’s called. So glad you made a video about this! The food waste is crazyyyyyyy
yah it’s funny how she unironically is rage baited by her (very clearly) satirical crunchy mom content. just goes to show, people will feel targeted/triggered by that one particular topic even if they’re apparently aware of it like she is. 😅
This was absolutely a phenomenal video Hannah, thank you so very much for opening my 71 YO eyes! I had no idea that this was how social media worked, and quite honestly, it disgusts me because it’s dishonest and, like you said, we don’t need any more rage or hate in our world, there’s too much as it is. Sending love ❤ and happiness from Texas. Kisses to the babe and to the cats, who we haven’t seen in such a long time! More 🐈⬛ in the background, please!
It’s a good public service she’s doing. I think a lot of people especially in generations that didn’t grow up with the internet fall for it and engage with the content encouraging more rage bait. Don’t watch or comment - internet content dies without your attention
Yes! It makes me think of Ruby Frankie abusing her kids. Not only did she make a ton of money off views and angry engagement, she also gaslighted people by trying to make them think it was their own fault for choosing to watch. With so many people making fake videos involving their kids as rage bait, concerned viewers are learning to just look away and ignore it. Sadly, the videos of the kids actually being abused are ignored. It's sickening.
And those channels are the ones that get millions subscribers soo sad. Most of them are bragging about their Children especially the one's who married men of colour and have biracial Children
She's an awful person. That's Dougherty Dozen. Those children are being abused with sugar. I can't believe foster and adopted children have no help. The system had failed them
Honestly that making paper and crayon video is hilarious. She is not wasting anything for rage bait. And her moving like cartoon like snow white is cherry on top.
Lex Delarosa! I love her 😂 I think her stuff is clever satire and not really what I would classify as “rage baiting.” Especially because her videos don’t create waste; she uses everything she makes. She’s said before that she just loves baking and doing crafts with her kids, so when people started hating on her, she leaned into it and it evolved into parody.
Thank you for this video, it's so enlightening. I have friends on the autism spectrum, and for them it's really difficult to watch perceived injustices, wastefulness, dishonesty etc without commenting or getting upset about it. It can also be hard for them to recognize satire or trolling behavior. I recognize a lot of people in the comments are just having fun laughing at something they find ridiculous, but when I see rage bait videos I can't help but think of my friends and how they might struggle with this type of content.
Can you expose beauty influencers? I’m floored how insane the makeup industry is doing so well and it has so much to do with beauty influencers online. Makeup. Skin care.
Can we just appreciate where we are as humanity right now…like, people are literally doing lifestyle things (making coffee, packing a bag, sitting aesthetically etc etc) and these people are getting paid better than doctors, nurses, carers, vets, fkin BINMEN like these people that make our world go round are making next to nothing and then THIS?!?! I think I’m losing my mind fr
That is why I deleted Instagram. I'm angry not on the influencers which obviously have no morals or honesty just money in mind. But the people who is fallowing them which is us 😂 we making this world crazy absolute shambles. We are paying for idiots jumping in and out of dresses watching how they are eating and so on instead of trying to finish this nonsense and going back to normal jobs and have some morals for god sake.
But how long can they continue? I've only really watched original content videos since 2020 and have become bored with most of them. How many times can you watch someone declutter their closet or clean my kitchen with me? I mean if you are having to pop out a baby or buy a new house every other year to have relevant content, you might not be in the best career.
@@erikapeters1984 yeah I’m not mad at like 90% of them they are just taking advantage of the social climate I get it but it’s crazy!! I look at these people doing virtually nothing and I think god help us if we have some kind of apocalypse/outbreak situation and we have to rely on influencers and “celebrities” to help us 💀💀💀
@@JLJ2730 yeah I honestly don’t watch any of that kind of stuff I find it so boring I just don’t get it! Where’s the incentive for the next generation to become skilled at anything? Kids are just gonna be like “I wanna be an influencer and do nothing and get paid for it” feel like we’re on a slippery slope 🫣
Using food as rage bait is low af. A lot of us are struggling to buy food so watching the waste hurts. I just report, block, and move on. I’m blessed to have a roof over my head and even have food but seeing these subhumans waste food/snacks that I’d kill for gets to me so I avoid it. I’m so sick of the food rage bait and damn Amazon ads.
I watched Dougherty dozen when she first started, way back. But when she started showing the kids medications and told the world about their medical conditions, I stopped. No hate watching, no comments. I'm not putting another cent in her pocket. I do feel very sad for her kids though. They are being exploited and neglected.
Same, I enjoyed her comment when she started but I got more and more uncomfortable with how much of her kids lives she was showing, and how she reacted to genuine concerns from comments and had to block her, I hope the kids get out okay
I recently watched another RU-vidr do a deeper dive into this channel. I can't remember who (maybe CC Suarez or Kiki Chanel), but it was part of a series about bad internet parents, and it was so heartbreaking to hear about how the "mother" has exploited those kids and their medical issues.
She took her rage baiting to the next level when she discussed her former Foster daughter's SH and smirked and scoffed about it like she was making fun of her. I know this because I saw someone do a video on the stuff she does. The lowest scum of the earth to exploit and then humiliate a child like that.
The paint one is worse than you realise - they obviously loosened the lids and then put them back on the shelf before they started filming. Paint can lids don't just fall off in mid air like that - paint was splashing everywhere before they even hit the floor.
one of the reason why ragebait is so effective for American creators. europeans/australians/canadians are literally the best audience to ragebait. they’ll believe anything that will fit with their superior complex over americans
Almost a decade ago, a friend who is in tech, explained to me how engagement works. Since then, I've been very selective about how I engage with the internet, especially social media platforms. I used to warm people to be careful about what they "liked", and everyone told me I was a reactionary. It's funny how many times I've been called that, and it turned out to be true. Those of us who are more sensitive, through nature or trauma, are canaries in the coalmine for these things, and I've learned to trust my instincts.
Exactly. When I was on tiktok, (not anymore), my for you page slowly turned into a “please like and share this video so we can afford healthcare treatment” page. I’d like the videos because I wanted to support them but when it became literally ALL the videos on my for you page, it got way too depressing and I had to stop liking. Essentially ignoring people who needed help and liking the “fun” videos instead. It’s so evil how platforms like this prey on your empathy either intentionally or unintentionally and then expect you to stay on the app and just get desensitized to scary, depressing, and rage inducing things. Also with fear mongering content. Your paranoia fills their pockets. It’s so dangerous.
Learning to recognize sketchy sites is another journey I've been on for a while. And I just hopefully rescued a sweet, naive lady from two attractive old men with backwards names who were trying to hook her for scamming.
Honestly I was getting so angry on Tiktok and Instagram, I didn't realise people were intentionality trying to piss me off. Like we have enough stress in our daily life, we don't need it when we are idling on social media.
The nice thing is that you can cultivate your content. When you see ragebait, or even non-ragebait that just makes you angry, just scroll on. Don't engage in any way. It won't take long before the algorithm goes 'Oh, they don't like this' and stops showing it to you. Make the algorithm work for you by fully watching, liking, and commenting on things you want to see more of. For example, this comment will help me see more of Hannah's videos and videos of this type.
@@xstanstanstan The bad thing is that these platforms track much more than clicks, and your engagement has less weight in the algorithm than the behaviour they track.
It's also games! Those games where a mother and child freeze to death if you don't fix everything for them, and in the demo they pick all the wrong options and the people die... makes me angry. But I refuse to play those games.
The worst part about the minifridge video is that is actually a great idea if you are fostering kids! This is your fridge, with your food, you can access it whenever you want and we even put some things you specifically like and request. For kids that come from food insecurity or just forbidden from eating or accessing the fridge this is a huge deal. To then turn it up into a rage bait video makes fellow foster perents scrap the idea
@@susanlovesjava4961 foster kids need space and time to heal. I To the children this would benefit the most it doesn't teach selfishness, instead it shows them that their needs are important and that having food and space of their own is a right. As they progress and heal their wounds they can learn to depend on their family and share
But instead of giving the kids cheese and crackers, washed and cut fruit, chopped veg and dip, deli meat, salami, nuts, olives, etc so they learn to eat actual food for good nutrition they're given processesd garbage. Really sad.
When healthy parents bring home a baby every wine fuss cry and coo gets a “yes” from the healthy parents. But children adopted from foster care were usually neglected and so they need s as many yeses as possible. Many of the adopted kiddos I know have issues around food because they didn’t ever have enough food. Maybe this mom has taken it a little on the crazy side but the idea of a “yes” drawer literally changed our life for the better with our adopted kiddos… (and let’s face it most individually packed shelf stable food is not healthy…)
My mom always said “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all”. Posting a nasty comment isn’t helpful, so I just take a deep breath and ask RU-vid not to recommend the channel again. Easy peasy! Thanks for bringing awareness to this issue, Hannah!
@@xoxo-vp7ww I click on the three dots on the three dots in the thumbnail and select the “Do Not Recommend Channel” option. It works for me. That’s a huge bummer the algorithm isn’t functioning properly for you. I hope it gets smarter the more channels/videos you tell it to not recommend!
@@xoxo-vp7ww keep blocking until the algorithm resets itself. Take a break from RU-vid and you get new content when you come back. That worked for me.
Yup, just because people are incentivized/manipulated into outrage doesn't excuse the fact that they should probably just try being better people and not be rude to random people they don't know in the first place.
Thank you for this. I do catch a lot of this kind of stuff. I don't normally engage with creators, but you are one in a few that I can get behind. You are down to earth and wholesome truth. Thank you. Keep it going, and don't stop.
Honestly, social media is probably the worst thing that has ever happened to society. Some of it is helpful and informative definitely! It just gets overshadowed by stupidity.
The one of the mom with 11 kids really kills me. She used to be a normal mom making normal lunches as her start. She had a great message about adoption and love. Now she's just money hungry and using the kids for money :(
The videos where people waste food for views are infuriating. There are millions of people who barely get by every month, trying to save money any and every way they can - and there are these "influencers" wasting it all - so that they could make more money... while pissing people off. We live in a very, very strange world and I am afraid it will only get worse. It's truly sickening. Love your video and keep up the awesome work 💖 this "Influencer insanity" series is my favorite - it proves that I am not crazy & that others feel angered by these people too.
I don’t know if you have already talked about this, but I think you’re the right person to do it. I see a lot of animal cruelty on social media created not only for rage bait, but also pretend rescue videos. People go there and harm animals only to pretend to rescue and help those animals. Or those who make their pets do things pets are not supposed to do and people commenting “oh how cute” when I can clearly see the animal is not having a good time and it’s absolutely not cute at all. It’s really sickening and people hit like on those too!
Anger spreads the best over the internet, that's why people will ragebait so often. I had to relearn how I react to social media posts to get rid of these enragement spirals, they don't do anything for me and are just making my mental health worse.
So true. Even after I quit SM I had a friend that didn't respect that and would always link or screenshot her feed/fyp to me in texts so I was inhaling secondhand, which was honestly worse because at least firsthand I could choose when to not look or close the app. I had to relearn how I react and that I can't control what other people shove in front of me, but I can choose to not engage. Like you said, it leads to enragement spirals and only makes me feel more anxious about the world.
It's the wastefulness for me. I don't care how you stock your minifridge or whatever but making something to immediately throw it away is enraging. I wish there was a way to report these videos on social media. If people stop watching it, there's no point in making the content, right? I love this influencer madness series, Hannah. It's a crazy world out there on the internet.
Training myself to scroll past posts like this is a mindset 👏 especially when facebook and youtube go out of their way to show you videos they know will make you angry.
Not gonna lie I absolutely love the sense of humor the woman who made homemade bread has. Her response by starting to make her own paper when the kids want to draw is top tier comedy 😂
Yeah I commented on that above, once that just becomes your persona to me that falls into satire and satire is a long standing form of comedy. I really dislike rage baiting but the second I accidentally stumbled on this account and looked through all the videos it felt different. Most of the comments are people laughing at how this or that video is so satirical.
Apparently, there is research that shows people spend more time on a site or app if they're angry. This is why things like Facebook and Twitter favour this type of content on their platforms.
I mod a Facebook group and can confirm the posts that get the most comments/discussion are ones that make people angry (usually to the point us mods get tagged in). The health of the group improved DRAMATICALLY when we started just booting people who trolled/rage baited.
Leaving twitter was the best thing I did. I have fb to keep up with my family but I really don’t pay attention to anything that is not for me. Same with instagram I don’t waste my time getting mad or hate watching. I watch what I like and skip on what I don’t.
I noticed a while ago that Facebook specifically will show you things it thinks will make you mad so that you interact with such profiles. I just ignore it at this point
When you said 20:18 “it’s easier to insight hate than love in a random viewer coming across your page for the first time” I was like 😮 it made me realise that this is what’s wrong with social media nowadays! We get rewarded for bad behaviour and negativity, and we get vicarious reinforcement from watching others get rewarded for bad behaviour - it’s a never ending cycle 😢
This was really informative! And it's not just influencers doing it. Threads used to be fairly normal for me but now it has so many meaningless posts that are so obviously rage bait. I do wish more people knew about this so that they would stop falling for it!
I love the homemade disney mum 🤣 I had not seen her before. But I love that she has found a way to take advantage trolls without having to feed her children junk or instead exploiting her children like others. And the fact she does make time to do these things is admirable. Bless her !
I agree with you, she's not hurting anyone and she's putting significant effort into her content. As long as people (especially new mums) understand it's satire and not something to aspire to!
That's a good point! Hadn't thought of it that way. The paper making part reminded me of trying out a similar project in Girl Scouts or as an at-home science project (but with newspaper). I just remember being disappointed it came out grey instead of white.
32:30 as a retail worker, when “influencers”/“content creators” do things like this, it should be a rule that they have to clean it all up. We don’t get paid enough to deal with people creating messes like this and it takes a lot of time away from our actual tasks and helping customers because there is never enough staff scheduled when stuff like this happens.
I'm so sorry that you're struggling like this. I hope that things get easier for you soon ❤️🩹 Also, I completely agree w you about the food waste. It's beyond awful.
It's gross that _ACTUAL_ food companies, craft stores, & legitimate businesses just GIVE these "influencers" free product to waste, w their snarky sarcasm. It's like slapping us in the face TWICE!
I saw a mom posting about how she had her kids friends over and after the playdate she wanted to charge the friends mom all of these weird expenses like "wear and tear on the couch" from her daughter sitting on it, a ziplock bag... WEIRD things to charge someone for and ultimately at the end of the video she was like "am i wrong for charging this?" and she was CLEARLY trying to get people angry by being so outrageously cheap and it was clear as day to me - that was ragebait and everyone was falling for it.
Something that's almost more annoying to me than the rage bait in the first place is the RU-vid channels that do reactions to those videos as if they were made genuinely. It's such lazy content bcs they don't even have to do their own rage baiting and people click for the catharsis of seeing someone else's reaction to it
The algorithm picked this video for me and it was very smart.😂 I've been noticing more people pushing. "Please engage in the comments" in their videos and also noticing people saying "oh viewers are picking on me because they think I'm ugly"or "they don't like my current content so I'm going to change it". But what they really seem to want is for us to comment and go, " No, you're doing the right thing, we love you" so rage baiting doesn't even have to be as obvious as what you showed. It is even more subtle.
Rage baiting is definitely nothing new. I remember watching TV advertising from the 80's and 90's (Yes I'm that old!) which created irritation, and yes, even rage. And, when you mentioned this commercial at the water-cooler on Monday morning, the default response was; "well we're talking about it, aren't we."
It's not surprising that this is becoming the norm. There is a reason that news outlets cover mostly negative news. It gets 2 to 3 × the views. Creators getting called out for wasteful, thoughtless, and obnoxious behavior is all good, AND we should ask ourselves why we as a society crave anger and negativity so much. I swear we're a bunch of adrenaline and cortisol addicts!
the amount of WASTE consumerism is horrendous and I see a lot of people doing this and it brings back to a saying my mom used to say to me "there are still people in this world dying of hunger, be grateful for your blessings" so seeing content like this truly wears me out.
side note on the food "rage bait" videos. A friend of mine told me that most of those are actually kink content. Anytime someone is rubbing stuff on the counter, playing with the food in their hands, or multiple shots of inserting one food into another. Like the people being mad is another side effect of what is definitely strange to watch but they aren't making it with those people in mind...
Yes some of it is definitely kink content! Especially ones that are like... Edging the viewer. Like on lives "ohh I'll show you what it looks like when we get more likes and views!" As they're getting their hands absolutely disgusting in some gooey food. Someone tried to do a tiktok series on it last year and she kept getting sent such disgusting stuff that she quit.
Yeah. I was thinking of those videos where they use a sink as a mixing bowl and mix with their hands. It's usually a young, attractive woman. I figure it's somewhere in the cross section of rage bait and fetish content
Your work exposing what so many are gullible of is SO important. The hours (days and weeks, honestly) of people investing time in every manner of negative input/output is beyond sad. If people would just ‘get a life’ and be busy about every good thing the world would be much better! Thanks again, truly!
