The Internet is Worse Than Ever - Now What?

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In 2022 nearly half of Americans expected a civil war in the next few years, one in five now believes political violence is justified. And it is not just the US but around the world. People increasingly see themselves as part of opposing teams.
There are many different reasons for this, but one gets blamed a lot: social media. Social media divides us, makes us more extreme and less empathetic, it riles us up or sucks us into doom scrolling, making us stressed and depressed. It feels like we need to touch grass and escape to the real world.
New research shows that we might have largely misinterpreted why this is the case. It turns out that the social media internet may uniquely undermine the way our brains work but not in the way you think.
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@kurzgesagt 5 месяцев назад

Go to ground.news/nutshell to compare news coverage from around the world and across the political spectrum to get a well-rounded view on important issues.

@Jay_in_Japan 5 месяцев назад

nuh uh

@05xy2. 5 месяцев назад

Firsttttt

@PoopyGregory 5 месяцев назад

kurzgesagt!!!!!!!!!!!

@Am_ne-vu9oi 5 месяцев назад

We love ur work keep going👍

@ChoppyBoi 5 месяцев назад

@i_like_orange_f 5 месяцев назад

“Unfortunately, your brain is stupid” I 100% agree. Thank you Kurzgesagt.

@RANDOMGUYBRO2763 5 месяцев назад

WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE

@FPEAlice68 5 месяцев назад

@@RANDOMGUYBRO2763why?

@ItBlue762 5 месяцев назад

i agree also

@bingj96 5 месяцев назад

How do I like a comment twice?

@Cheeser409 5 месяцев назад

Anti-vaxers:"fear my power of being stupid"

@KodakYarr 4 месяца назад

The most annoying thing is being acutely aware of all of this and seeing it happen without any agency whatsoever.

@nuntana2 4 месяца назад

Not just social media though, the anger in large part is driven by the current woke movement, opinionated Left (which winds the Right up) and our go governments shoving PCness down our throats and getting more authoritarian. That, together with the COVID lockdowns, illegal immigration and ever-present wars, has really put people on edge.

@newtybot 4 месяца назад

Annoying is a good way to put it. It doesn’t make me angry, it doesn’t make me sad; I’m just really annoyed.

@k1awesomeness 4 месяца назад

@@newtybot often i find the emotion to be frustrating, even deeper than annoying. but it's good to try and make sense of what you can

@Manas-co8wl 4 месяца назад

Just a tad little bit more than annoying for me. But I guess that says more about me than anyone else

@edibleapeman2 4 месяца назад

Yup. Purged social media years ago. Sought IRL friendships but they’re all addicted to tiktok. Now I’m lonely everywhere I go and it’s like society is just... gone... now.

@prod.winterxphool6227 3 месяца назад

Deleted all my social media off my phone. Deleted RU-vid as an app. I still have access to it, but I force myself to have to hop on my computer in order to see what I want to. Works like a charm, I’m happier and now I have more time for the things I’m interested in.

@benabel886 2 месяца назад

sadly i bought a laptop lmfao. future me might say it was the worst thing i ever did

@clariwinkle 2 месяца назад

YESSSS ME TOO!! I agree all my socials are on my ipad and it's been months since I charged it! I think our generation might facilitate smartphone death!

@improvwithlions4173 2 месяца назад

I should probably do the same. I tried using digital wellbeing tools but it isn't working out :/

@clariwinkle 2 месяца назад

@@improvwithlions4173 ooh interesting, what are digital wellbeing tools?? Like screentime monitors?

@KRADAK6 2 месяца назад

I did the same but failed to delete youtube. I should do tht😅

@kitt4y 3 месяца назад

also, social media has created an atmosphere where real world issues become incredibly easy to digest and know about, expanding the amount of information that our brains can handle at once. videos about wars, genocide, and other gruesome things that are so easily accessible to people of all ages changes the way our brains grow and think, and can make those who are naturally more empathetic depressed and anxious about the world around us. I grew up in this generation without remembering a whole world without social media, and I can say that our brains are not meant to function by feeling every single negative thing this world has. it’s overwhelming.

@kiratwo4u 3 месяца назад

as an adult teenager, I say this is accurate! atleast in my experience.

@Cobbido 3 месяца назад

It has created an atmosphere where censorship is running rampant and everyone is constantly bombared with extremely efficient propaganda, much of which is intended to demoralize, divide and pacify us.

@mobisugershot 3 месяца назад

It is helpful in some ways like opening a wider community for a group of affected people, and also makes them think "there are people who had it worse". This honestly also makes it harder for people to find support because as more people can express themselves they find out that what they have is normal, especially when they go into a community filled with people who are also effected without knowing that they're in a smaller portion of the internet/world.

@ilv839 2 месяца назад

we need some down time asap

@Ultima64 2 месяца назад

Also alot of it is powerlessness to change things for the better to solve these issues at hand. Granted this has always been the case since humanity is inherently hierarchical by nature but social media has really just made us more aware of how powerless most people are (assuming stories on there aren't faked which is also pretty common

@cu6307 4 месяца назад

I find it absolutely bizarre that parents are willing to put an iPad or phone in a baby's face and let them scroll endlessly through TikTok. I genuinely worry about what this effect will have on future generations.

@millennium7909 4 месяца назад

Exactly, like I get it that it's a method to pacify their own kid but they are still too young to be on the internet, who knows where they might end up in when their kid is no longer in the child friendly demographic part of the internet, and don't even realize that these other types of media isn't on par nor is it supposed to be something to be shown to a young child. That's why it is highly suggested there is at least a global rule or something that every single parent to should know, that is to show the internet to their children only when they are ready or at a certain age when they can actually process such information.

@HoboTango 4 месяца назад

In a way, that’s the best way to get us humans to adapt quicker to these new realities. This is evolution 😅.

@that_one_who_is8037 4 месяца назад

@@HoboTangoyes, however evolution is not guided, evolution does not cater to what we want it to do, it might create more resistant minds to the Internet, but it could also have the inverse effect, where minds become more prone to internet addiction, because that is what gets it dopamine. 😔 So it turns out that fighting fire with fire, can work to stop the fire spreading, but in the end you are still left with a ton of fire

@kirito3082 4 месяца назад

Tiktok is a chinese psyop

@Saphireangell 4 месяца назад

I think being exposed from a younger age helped me to adjust to the information overload. The iPad babies should do better than us in the future.

@notaburner3918 4 месяца назад

My mom always taught me that it's no one person's responsibility to fix the world, but it's everyone's responsibility to not make it worse.

@notaburner3918 4 месяца назад

So for those of you who feel you lack agency, I'd say by not contributing to the anger, you're doing a lot!

@Adam-wg2rf 4 месяца назад

That's for the tip, you great wise man i agree when a place got problems on are phones we need to leave it, and not go into fights in the name something it will not change. Stay safe love from israel

@redien4785 3 месяца назад

So, she's a ideological conservative?

@diegomarchese8578 3 месяца назад

wise words

@Bragglord 3 месяца назад

Wise lady.

@teabaggins7091 3 месяца назад

it's really terrifying when you realize that you spent a good chunk of your life trapped in a virtual world, i'm not mature enough for the real world, it's frightening to me...

@ilv839 2 месяца назад

u know social media made it hard to understand real world try hard things if u wanna be free child again

@teabaggins7091 2 месяца назад

@@ilv839 can you elaborate

@ilv839 2 месяца назад

@@teabaggins7091 what u fighting on internet wuth people talk about it in real life people will tell new perspective atleast u can see the real expression its not wasting of time i am kinda clueless tooo still trying to figure out life before Internet

@user-hc5db4xz8f 2 месяца назад

I disagree

@beemagicink 2 месяца назад

Then go outside more often. The only propper way is to face it(the fear); practice makes perfect.

@LeeSouthgate 3 месяца назад

I'm 23 and recently deleted all social media except RU-vid and WhatsApp. It's been amazing for my mental health! Social media definitely has its place, but it stopped being worth it for me.

@ahaharegret3744 3 месяца назад

youtube is a major part of the problem

@HijoDelHongo 3 месяца назад

Unfortunately I don't think the ends justify the means and the social media experiment has failed.

@whatrtheodds 3 месяца назад

You just gave yourself hours of your life back 💖

@JB9000x 3 месяца назад

Social media makes you sad. I'm glad to say I've convinced my children of this as well and they're not interested in it.

@VideosVlogsThatsIt 3 месяца назад

@@ahaharegret3744unless you watch retro PC channels

@irynabutsenko7777 4 месяца назад

Had this problem when I was stuck inside for a few years and didn't really socialize IRL. Then when I got a job and talked to a lot of people I was extremely pleasantly surprised that people are actually normal. Being perpetually online, or even just thinking that the online world is representative of the real one, is such a hellish trap, and you might not even realize it.

@GeorgeG-is6ov 4 месяца назад

Yes, I think more people need to be aware of this, or else lives will be ruined.

@TheSCPStudio 4 месяца назад

Bro come on. The reason for that is because most people use the internet to show their true selves and keep a facade in real life.

@CajunGator 4 месяца назад

It is not an accurate reflection of the real world, but it is telling you what people are thinking. At the very least we now have an understanding of what people genuinely think when anon. What people are realizing is that our internal thoughts are crazy and can be sinister or over reactionary in seconds. Social media has told you what your neighbor is thinking, and that scares you.

@CajunGator 4 месяца назад

People also in real life often support the middle ground or sometimes even negative stances. On the internet because likes and upvotes are a thing people always virtue signal when they can. Whatever group you identify with, you pander to them, so they give you positive feedback and reinforce your decisions. It's a lot easier to disagree in person, especially as a conversation isn't recorded in perpetuity.

@cryse_rox 4 месяца назад

Agreed. Also, most people do not engage with content, ie they lurk and do not comment nor engage. The real world is a better place.

@CaseyCorrupted 5 месяцев назад

I can't believe my nostalgia for the old internet is actually justified I miss when each website catered to a niche. It made it so much easier to interact with higher quality content and creations.

@NihongoWakannai 5 месяцев назад

This is pretty much how discord is used these days. At least the smaller more niche discord servers. It's just unfortunate that it's relying on one specific company instead of individually run forums.

@OfficerNeonFace 5 месяцев назад

@@NihongoWakannaiKurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@skoop651 5 месяцев назад

people like hasanabi have started a pipeline to radical leftism on the internet, and its consequences are very visible while social media companies do nothing

@skoop651 5 месяцев назад

a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to

@skoop651 5 месяцев назад

sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better

@commentatingcommenter9178 2 месяца назад

I think the worst thing about social media is when you begin to realize how narcissistic and egotistical people become when they're behind a screen. You ironically see more flaws in humanity despite only seeing people's highlight reels.

@Mildredpotka Месяц назад

you're part of the problem babe

@commentatingcommenter9178 Месяц назад

@@Mildredpotka Thank you for proving my point. Btw nice troll account. 🙂

@cactusMarks Месяц назад

@@MildredpotkaI hope you find a healthier way to communicate with people that leads to lasting connection, you can undo whatever trauma has caused you to view confrontation as the default response it just takes time✌️

@Mildredpotka Месяц назад

eatmey@@cactusMarks

@xlrbossshorts Месяц назад

Agreed, but guess what, they think the same way about you as well. Were all part of the problem.

@user-tl4uc6sk2i Месяц назад

This is why I deleted Tik Tok and Instagram, only kept snapchat to message friends and only use youtube for informational videos. Once I started spending my time reading, going outside and practicing self care, I found self love and feel smarter.

@kenyaholloway-reliford8213 5 месяцев назад

I'm glad someone is acknowledging this. Exploring the internet has become more stressful and discouraging to me lately because of people' behavior and attitude, and all the negativity, propaganda, and algorithmic curation that's constantly being pushed.

@kef7109 5 месяцев назад

I must say... Arguing so much with people has lead me to open some socials way less frequently because then I have to keep arguing. And it helped me a lot since now I've just come out from a period of extreme boredom in which I was on TikTok a lot waiting for something to happen

@sp33dweed 5 месяцев назад

social media is also just fucking lame. look at old websites. look at neocities. websites in the 2000s had SO much personality and charm. Nobody is "browsing" the internet anymore and it became a boring hellscape.

@DJB10T1C 5 месяцев назад

its not the internet thats is the issue, its how people are using it eg sical media. I tend to use the interent to learn things (alot through youtube), instead of news reading and that god awful thing they call reddit, it tends to be less toxic when you arnt interacting with other people.

@aufoslab 5 месяцев назад

My brain is stupid also..

@nieznajomy4398 5 месяцев назад

So I would recommend Wisecrack channel, they also talk about this stuff but from philosophical point of view.

@Amuztak 4 месяца назад

Social media makes you even angry at people irl, thinking they're constantly biased and against your opinions and makes you be defensive all the time. When you talk to real people in real life in real places, you realize people are not that evil or aggressive (except for some crazy people out there) and you can actually cooperate with them even if you don't share any opinions because they're actually normal people who are not that extreme. Call it facade, call it whatever, but it's safer outside than inside social media.

@RoyalTy37 4 месяца назад

big factsss

@Amuztak 4 месяца назад

@@lowkeyn Taking things out of context is your passion. You're just an example of my comment. I never said your family couldn't make you angry...

@dime.overmatter 4 месяца назад

I believe a huge part of it is taking part in "conversations" without seeing the other person's face and body language. Some religious people came to my door but I couldn't bring myself to openly state their beliefs were stupid. I couldn't bear their physical reaction of hurt if I said that to their faces. Online I'd have no problem cutting out the niceties.

@user-sg4ov7ng4h 4 месяца назад

Idk christmas diners getting wild

@Amuztak 4 месяца назад

@@dime.overmatter actually, I find it easier sometimes to express my nonconforming to someone face to face. But you're right, physical harm or being put in an uncomfortable situation is what makes us stop from being like that many times, but being assertive and building boundaries is important.

@KoongYe 10 дней назад

The curse of the internet is having to know what I don't need to know, and be angry abouth things I don't need to be angry about.

@Cubeytheawesome 4 дня назад

I hear you. Every time i see a video about something negative, I can’t help but feel bad, even if it isn’t connected to an interest of mine. And I can’t just not care about it, since that seems apathetic.

@grimdivine9677 3 месяца назад

Social media is like a text message, any comments/messages can be misinterpreted because there is no tone. Face to face communication always kept things in check. People dropped friends and family over social media posts and it’s hilariously sad

@kpheine 4 месяца назад

This ending really got to me. I miss the "old internet" so much, even extinct social networks (like orkut) were more community-focused. The internet was supposed to be a giant library, not an endless street market, with everyone shoving products in your face.

@Rayleigheffects 4 месяца назад

Such a good metaphor, btw I have seen so many bots on the comments recently

@Kacpa2 4 месяца назад

I'm glad i got to be part of that, being on forums for most of my childhood before it became more phased out... To some extend it exists as discord but its far from main social media. Its a side activity now why all the major sites siphon everything everyone in one place, including one we're on now.

@zekion. 4 месяца назад

Reddit is still that way for the most part in my opinion, specific niche communities for your interests, heck even entire niche forums dedicated to say like your car etc. The old internet is still alive, but in a very small number. You have to look for places yourself, navigate the horror that is the algorithmic internet.

@TheAmericanAmerican 4 месяца назад

You can thank capitalism for that! Gotta monetize EVERYTHING, baby!

@ytuser6276 4 месяца назад

Look up Mastodon, Fediverse

@KnowledgeCat 5 месяцев назад

Spot on! The internet truly embodies a mix of blessing and curse, all rolled into one. It’s a perfect example of how something can be so incredibly useful and yet so challenging at the same time.

@markmuller7962 5 месяцев назад

Social media is a problem but humans too have intrinsic cultural problems with the contemporary culture (or lack of it) falling short of critical thinking and scientific mindset making people convinced of the most unhinged and extreme theories and ideologies (including religion ideology unfortunately). P.s. Also the violent and partisan nature of us humans becomes very apparent when these cultural tribes tuns into such unhealthily competitive behaviour against each other

@PerpetualWane 5 месяцев назад

@@markmuller7962YOU’re WRONg anD I HaTe YoU. JESUS Died For YOur SINS.

@colinmcintyre1769 5 месяцев назад

Sorry to use this comment to make a point that hopefully will get seen, but is no one gonna talk about religion? I feel like religion is the problem with social sorting on the internet, and that's not gonna slow down ever. Internet or not.

@KarlTiti 5 месяцев назад

It's only the fault of the LGBTQ cult.

@W0IfCat 5 месяцев назад

@@colinmcintyre1769religion has been the number 1 cause of war so yeah you’re right

@franciscocolaco3467 3 месяца назад

The worst thing about this is even if you are trying to better society it will only work if everyone is on the same page as you

@squallofthedai 2 месяца назад

Has to start somewhere though

@NO_EPIX 4 дня назад

Hard to find once very stable social nowadays.

@RobotsandMonsters 3 дня назад

Forget forcing what you think is best for society and focus on what is best for your life, family and friends. Too many people trying to change the world with a biased or limited understanding of it.

@wojciechm7758 Месяц назад

Thats why I deleted Twitter, It started to make me very angry and even racist. I kinda miss it now but Im much happier.

@Lupaland11 28 дней назад

Same here but with 9gag. I think it's better to avoid these platforms even if they had positive sides

@Cubeytheawesome 4 дня назад

Same here. I nearly told someone to off themselves. Thank god I quit.

@premiumepic6050 4 месяца назад

As someone who grew up with the earlier internet, I personally hated how massive things grew as it quickly turned into things that encouraged all of this.

@sokol7215 4 месяца назад

@@cookieciahahaha good one 😂😂 you called the devil by his name

@yololthepikminenjoyer 4 месяца назад

nah, that’s what everyone says, it wasn’t so bad then because you were too young to know it

@proto_arkbit3100 4 месяца назад

@@cookiecia That's hilarious!

@itscs1175 4 месяца назад

"The internet proves that not everybody can all fit under the same roof..." - some comment I saw years ago

@Crimea_River 4 месяца назад

I miss the old Internet when you could find obscure blogs and such.

@SrPelo 5 месяцев назад

I remember loving forums or sites with "affiliate" banners, you could jump site to site! Social media was a mistake

@Dracointox. 5 месяцев назад

wth why are you here pelo (btw, latin fan here!!!)

@MawlyMice 5 месяцев назад

It's surprising how humanity made a double-edged sword and didn't anhilate themselves yet :/

@IDESTROYER236 5 месяцев назад

ARE YOU READY FOR ROUND TWO!?

@ADMICKEY 5 месяцев назад

Not from my POV, it saved me from death :D

@KantonFigtree 5 месяцев назад

MOOOKKKIIIIII

@diagojonathan Месяц назад

Social media always makes me angry especially instegram and RU-vid short it's just full of toxic people that try to advertise their political views that I don't give a damn about

@janelle9531 2 месяца назад

i think another problem is how, during covid, the internet/social media switched from being something we all use when we want to use it to being something we're all dependent on for work, school, communicating with others, etc. i honestly feel like everything becoming more convenient by being able to do it all on the internet has kinda changed how we live everyday life for the worse

@dragonplant 4 месяца назад

i actually really hope the internet "devolves" into its earlier state - connections with people online felt more real, and everything seemed nicer and more passionate. now its a massive cesspool that more often than not makes you angry or sad. maybe we can revive old era internet

@planescaped 4 месяца назад

Won't ever happen. The early internet was so "cozy" and srs bizness because it was used by only a relatively small portion of society. After social media took off, and internet usage became a ubiquitous thing, everything changed. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

@Park1ngL0t 4 месяца назад

thats kinda what discord is if you think about it

@psy_duck8221 4 месяца назад

It won’t. I think the next evolution of humanity is total virtualisation where all information is available instantly, and accurately without the ability to hide anything so consensus can be achieved immediately. A hive mind if you will.

@DeadpoolX9 4 месяца назад

Cause everyone was a fucking weirdo and we knew that It’s literally the whole “normie” complaint

@tiffyw92 4 месяца назад

@@planescaped Interesting and fitting analogy. I do agree that it's impossible to squeeze all the toothpaste back into the tube, but it's not that difficult to squeeze some of the excess back in. Likewise, it's impossible to entirely detach ourselves from the Internet in this day and age, but it doesn't hurt to shut off the computer or phone for a while to rest your eyes, or failing that, to at least return to smaller communities like on forum sites or private Discord servers. Forums have been around all this time; one just has to look for them.

@EternalTheMandarinGoddess Месяц назад

A drama is currently unfolding in a fandom i love, and i am of the opinion that is widely considered the "wrong one" within that drama. All the fighting and all the opinions were genuinely stressing me out so much... And i don't think RU-vid could have recommended me a better video. It genuinely resonates with me so much. Maybe it's because it gives me a logical reason as to WHY I'm so upset about this... But it's like I'm getting closure. So, thanks for making me feel slightly better about this whole thing.

@OfficialToxicCat Месяц назад

Bro, I've been blocked, put on blast, harassed, and even had my intelligence mocked for simply having an opinion that no one else shares or for simply disagreeing with people. I know the feeling. That's social media in a nutshell.

@yoschle3928 Месяц назад

Godzilla fan here, same thing is happening in some capacity in our fandom. I think can imagine how you feel. Being a fan of anything should never be this stressful but hey, it's the internet :/

@Noah-SugarPan 19 дней назад

@@yoschle3928 I'm curious, what is exactly happening in the Godzilla fandom?

@JJ-pj2kz Месяц назад

This made me really want to go outside and lay on the grass. I need to smell the earth it's been so long

@jmerridew124 5 месяцев назад

I've been stewing for years on the idea that all of our conflicts are caused by our brains' unbreakable habit of sorting. It was super gratifying to hear this channel describe "social sorting" as an actual thing.

@ccrossed4854 5 месяцев назад

You could've researched the term on your own tho.

@dusk2308 5 месяцев назад

@@ccrossed4854 yea but i wouldn't have agree with him if he didn't have a piece of paper so

@si2foo 5 месяцев назад

it is pretty much what national culture is. it is your team.

@8thgod769 5 месяцев назад

@@ccrossed4854he basically did it was just a theory to him at the time smh

@RialuCaos 5 месяцев назад

It can be seen quite clearly through the abundance of straw man arguments on the internet.

@plr2473 4 месяца назад

As a public school teacher, in a district where all the kids have learnt to use a smart device before a pencil, I can tell you that the Internet has messed up today's youth. I've been teaching for 20+ years, and kids nowadays cannot focus like before, get anxiety when separated from their devices, and feel more awkward in their skin due to a sense of reality that is warped by social media. It's terrible to see this shift and makes our lives as educators harder.

@agamersinsanity 4 месяца назад

I feel my Swedish and English has become worse over time. My kid barely use social media because I believe her being outside and play is far more important than sitting in front of a phone. I do believe the mother of my kid feels the same way.

@ASpaceOstrich 4 месяца назад

@@agamersinsanity Which is unfortunate, because the capacity to be outside and play has been reduced. You can't just go out and play because theres nowhere to go. Kids these days aren't allowed to do the things that the kids of prior generations did. I'm gen z and could be mistaken for agoraphobic, and even I have some childhood memories of doing things that would be impossible now due to legality and rules tightening. As a society we've taken away the ability for kids to be kids.

@GC-pj6no 4 месяца назад

My cousins are sharp when in comes to processing information. They are iPad babies. However, socially they are odd. Couldn't speak well until they were 6. Speaking well by means of properly communicating how they feel and think. Prior to that they could perfectly pronounce foreign words and weird noises. Like a recorder of video shorts babbling in human form. It was bizarre.

@strangelee4400 4 месяца назад

You see a lot of teachers on tiktok videos these days...and they don't seem very stable.

@darthsirrius 4 месяца назад

You're a teacher and you use the word "learnt" instead of learned? Guess you're not an English teacher...

@ChickenBrothRoss 2 месяца назад

The main thing I notice with people is that everyone is trying to prove they are smarter than everyone else and automatically deem a lot of other people as stupid instead of considering their side. What I try to do is not designate myself at all and just view everyone as important regardless of their opinion or status

@sofia_jijai990 2 месяца назад

"my political point of view is correct and yours is wrong" pretty much the entire internet

@OfficialToxicCat Месяц назад

Yep. There’s been plenty of times where I’ve been called dumb, dense, stupid, or be told I lacked critical thinking skills online by people who are trying to prove to a bunch of strangers how smart they are for validation. It’s not even about educating people anymore. It’s about making total strangers feel horrible to inflate your ego.

@mjorozco3786 2 месяца назад

This is so true. All this toxicity in this platform has just grew and grew. Long ago, I didn't see any arguments online or anything. But now, it feels like I'm just flooded with arguments. Recently I saw a hater hating on a math video saying "So worst teacher 😒🤮" , starting an argument. I'm trying to avoid too much screen time, and this is so helpful. I should not watch those youtube shorts because it just sucks me in. Thank you Kurzgesagt.

@Loveispainj Месяц назад

Always say it's like a thing to be an asshole online like ppl have to do it

@mjorozco3786 Месяц назад

@@Loveispainj yeah

@Lupaland11 28 дней назад

Good decision. Have a nice day ^^

@mbvid12 4 месяца назад

The "old internet" is so important to me because I didn't have many friends as a kid and through a group of people I shared an interest with, that I found from word of mouth and not an algorithm, I manage to spend my adolescent with people who understood me the way classmates hadn't. In addition, this helped me find people from other kinds of families and expand my world view slowly without being overwhelming. I know that if I was born just a few years later, I would have had a much more difficult time managing my own thoughts because I would never have grown up in a community that allows a space to mentally breath and adjust.

@DodgyDaveGTX 4 месяца назад

IRC was my go-to social circle for years and made a lot of great friends through a circle of people who shared a specific shared interest: we were a bunch of wreckheads who'd get mashed every Friday night and hang out together on video chat and sometimes play videogames together. I've been unable to find a similarly tight-knit online community since then, even Discord doesn't seem to match the level of social interconnectedness as IRC, at least IME. Maybe I've just not found the right server 🤷‍♂️

@yangpaan453 4 месяца назад

Great example of saying a lot of words without really saying anything. You can still find communities on the new internet. I've been here since the start as well, myspace and old youtube days. It's not that different and you're over-exaggerating how "difficult" it is to navigate.

@mopnem 4 месяца назад

@@yangpaan453 I was literally thinking the same thing lmao. This is why Kuzgarts vid about social media not creating opposing viewpoints is imo false af. All these "communities" are still around, many people just look in the wrong place like the top social media platforms known to be toxic or the already known to be godawful youtube comment section lol.

@energeticyellow1637 4 месяца назад

@@yangpaan453This is actually kinda true. There are still plenty of small forums you can go to, it's just that people see how big social media is and think that's all there is to the internet now. But at the end of the day though I still think social media needs to go. We can hide in our smaller communities all we want but the longer the normies have their brains rotted by social media the worse its going to be for us.

@mbvid12 4 месяца назад

I like saying nothing, but also I just meant today's internet overwhelms me, that's all :)@@yangpaan453

@jackxson6109 5 месяцев назад

I’m so glad this whole issue is getting more well known. My mental health in general has been much better since I stopped caring about social media and internet drama.

@smhdpt12 5 месяцев назад

Says the guy on the internet in the comments section....

@whatsupscoob6818 5 месяцев назад

@@smhdpt12to be fair, commenting under an educational video is quite a bit different than going onto a Fox news report and arguing for 40 minutes

@TheEnd-um7yd 5 месяцев назад

If it makes you feel any better the printing press lead to an 80 year war over slightly different versions of the exact same religion.

@jancoscholtz 5 месяцев назад

Absolutely

@SobaYatai 5 месяцев назад

@@smhdpt12 you're exactly the reason why this video were made in the first place man.

@craftycadence3685 2 месяца назад

This is why debate is so important. Logic and reason combined with perspective is the way forward. Looking at both sides of the same veiw.

@sofia_jijai990 2 месяца назад

even in debates people just want to win the argument and fully prove the other side as wrong as possible no one is actually searching for any useful education and open understanding

@craftycadence3685 2 месяца назад

@@sofia_jijai990 then they are not debating.

@randomtrucks Месяц назад

i find it hard to believe that online filter bubbles don't have a radicalizing or ideologically isolating effect when people i know in real life tell me the absolute batshit crazy shit they believe they saw on their extremely personalized fyp

@smartereveryday 5 месяцев назад

"One model that seemed to work well was the pre social media internet OLD people might remember." *SHOTS FIRED* Great video, and I enjoyed the ad at the end.

@randomspacefan 5 месяцев назад

First reply never thought I would be first to a comment made by a RU-vidr with 11 million subscribers

@ians5337 5 месяцев назад

Damnit. I'm old.

@_WeDontKnow_ 5 месяцев назад

@@randomspacefan didnt even notice!! love the videos they did with the slow mo guys

@mohitrahaman 5 месяцев назад

It feels really good that I was born at a time, not too early or late, where I could see and understand the entire steady transition of internet and technology towards damnation.

@Divertisseur 5 месяцев назад

Oh i misheard it as "all people" i was confused

@phantomstrider 5 месяцев назад

It's kinda nice after hearing for so many years "you're isolated and sheltered in your worldviews" that studies have found the opposite. Personally, I'm regularly taken aback by very different and sometimes radical worldviews to mine on internet websites, comments and social media. It makes sense as when I'm with family/friends it feels like a break as their worldviews feel less deeply contrasting than the internet.

@bosssnurp5912 5 месяцев назад

Didn’t expect to see you here! The internet really can serve as a breeding ground for radical opinions.

@Snisbatch 5 месяцев назад

Honestly that’s really good for you cause there’s lots of people who isolate themselves and forget about what going on around them

@oomusd 5 месяцев назад

exactly.

@NewNecro 5 месяцев назад

I mean, it's still true to an extent, just not because of the internet or algorithms like some want to believe, but because many of us naturally live in different parts of the world with different standards and cultures. But again, there's nothing wrong with that, it's just internet bringing up disagreements about things most of us wouldn't even bother to think about otherwise.

@iwantedtobethatanomaly2270 5 месяцев назад

Oh hello Phantom! Out of all youtubers I watch I would have never expected to see ya here. Pleasant surprise regardless^^

@_JustAnotherGhost_ 2 месяца назад

I've been off of social media save for youtube and discord for years, and this information makes a whole realm of difference. Thank you, Kurzgesagt

@rpcheesman 3 месяца назад

Moving away from mass social media and joining smaller forums like I used to prior to the large social media sites has been so beneficial. Seeing this video helped me understand that decision and makes so much more sense now.

@RandomGuy37 5 месяцев назад

This is precisely why I've lately started to become more social in the real world. The world isn't nearly as bad when you experience it in real life as the social media makes it out to be. I feel like my life has been going way better ever since I reduced my social media consumption. I still use it every once in a while but nowhere near as much as I used to.

@wade2112 5 месяцев назад

TikTok is poison

@VladLad 5 месяцев назад

Exactly. The real world has so few of those twitter radicals that it does wonders for the soul. Turns out most of the working class is just as racist and homophobic as me who'd have imagined.

@wakkaseta8351 5 месяцев назад

It's not AS bad, but it's still full of lefties, libs, and foreigners.

@4zomvly 5 месяцев назад

that's the exact thing I've learned as well. I was basically terminally online for a while until I went back to my home country and then talked to my family and various old friends. I found out that real life conversations are far better than the ones you make online.

@daredevil2724 5 месяцев назад

Yea the internet shows u the worst of the worst but outside its refreshing how much nicer people are

@Teathling 4 месяца назад

Glad you guys explained what I couldn't put into words, the older internet just didn't want our attention it just existed because people liked sharing stuff

@clintelkins9630 4 месяца назад

The basic human instict to share information monetized again by the greedy minority

@lucastheguy4452 4 месяца назад

Hopefully the internet is just going through it’s moody teen phase.

@I_have_Claws 4 месяца назад

@@lucastheguy4452 lol

@gb6656 4 месяца назад

that was the entire concept of the internet but some people just took it to another level

@Bunny_Bill 4 месяца назад

Can't believed they capitalised our attention😭

@caizacant 3 месяца назад

I need a t-shirt that says “your brain is stupid”

@ListenToGlobal 2 месяца назад

This video needs to be shown in schools

@gregorygeorge8695 4 месяца назад

The worst part is, a lot of people who sees this will likely not recognize that they themselves can/are feed(ing) the issue. I can see huge swaths of people thinking "Yeah, that's exactly whats wrong with them, they lack the self-awareness that me and my peers have!" (The irony will be rich).

@arkosilaura 4 месяца назад

WILL be rich? There are several such people in the comments section already. Some people ARE just stupid. And we gave them the loudest voice there is due to how the internet was designed. -.- Or rather, due to how social media was designed. Controversy drives engagement. Ugh...

@gregorygeorge8695 4 месяца назад

@@arkosilaura yep, only way to keep our heads straight Is admit it when we do the same :/

@droonnope 4 месяца назад

Ikr I do this everyday I don’t want to I actually want to be less judgmental but it is what it is all I can do is not open my mouth about something that I disagree with

@olivercoe745 4 месяца назад

I massively disagree with you. You're clearly on the other team and therefore evil.

@naturobotp2974 4 месяца назад

im trying to be self aware but its not very easy considering the person you live with more throughout your life is yourself

@Namnam54 5 месяцев назад

The bit about the old internet and forums really brought a tear to my eye. I remember vividly the discussions that were had, and how engaging it was to talk to like-minded people across the world. You actually made friends with the people you engaged with frequently. I really miss those days.

@exception05 5 месяцев назад

Yeah, and there was no ban/ignore button for each user. Only moderators and administrators can do that, so you'll face a diversity of opinions whether you like it or not.

@spaomalley 5 месяцев назад

@@exception05alas, nowadays you get banned for pointing out objective facts/truths in certain places if you don’t uphold the current narrative

@skoop651 5 месяцев назад

a problem is that social media is for profit, and everything will be adjusted for what is profitable you can't say what they don't want you to say, only what they do want you to

@skoop651 5 месяцев назад

sometimes, nostalgia doesn't blind you and it actually was better, new isn't always better

@sacredgeometry 5 месяцев назад

Forums still exist. You can create one in seconds and then foster a community. The problem will still exist. The problem isnt the internet ... well for the most part. Its people.

@the_unknown2024 Месяц назад

Good thing I never made a Twitter, TikTok, or Facebook account...

@austinsatterfield6792 2 месяца назад

I've found that what I see on social media is a reflection of me not the world. Once I got rid of all negativity and only commented and engaged in wholesome content all I ever see is a beautiful world and people on social media

@danielshults5243 4 месяца назад

I strongly feel these types of lessons should be taught in school from an early age. People need to learn to examine their own thought patterns and think critically about their own beliefs, biases, and assumptions. They need to learn to think from the "other side" and not take their own positions for granted. They need to learn to be dispassionate and reasonable when assessing what to believe, and who is worth listening to. Make these lessons part of our children's upbringing. My generation is only half as likely to smoke as our parents thanks to institutionalized anti-smoking campaigns and education. In the same way, maybe we can teach the next generation to avoid becoming victims of their own stupid brains.

@infernec 4 месяца назад

in some systems they do that to some degree already. i don't know how relevant it is, but source criticality is heavily encouraged in schools in some nordic countries. this only applies to factual stuff though, not tolerating others' opinions.

@aurorasun-qs1pg 4 месяца назад

So you want school to last even longer or what would you cut out?

@zoyzauce 4 месяца назад

@aurorasun-qs1pg Dude it's not like they're suggesting an extra 5 years of school or something. My mom actually works as a librarian in an elementary school where they teach things like this to young children as part of their ELA/communication classes. Media literacy is a natural next step in existing parts of our education, and it's not difficult to include in our current curriculum. The most difficult part about including it is that people who are deeply radicalized tend to get angry when their kids are taught to question these things, which depending on the laws of your local school system, may mean you're limited in what subjects you're allowed to bring up or what materials you're allowed to share.

@yurivanhaeren3701 4 месяца назад

I really like the way you phrase the last sentence. Avoiding your own shortcomings and teaching that skill. That's a great plan!

@Crimea_River 4 месяца назад

@@aurorasun-qs1pgI would rather the OP's idea taught in schools instead of radical gender ideology.

@Lucasfr10 5 месяцев назад

This explains really well the phenomenon of "react videos". people don't want to be on the internet alone, they want to share the moment with someone they identify with

@Jen-hen 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@KnowledgeSphere-je9ee 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@KnowledgeSphere-je9ee 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@KnowledgeSphere-je9ee 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@KV-88 5 месяцев назад

Ohio Amogus Rizz Sus Skibidi.

@martin2560 Месяц назад

We had so much fun growing up in the 80s in a small city. Kids still played on the sidewalks. Now they dont dare. Toxic culture.

@JohnPeacekeeper 3 месяца назад

Funny enough, I treat people on Discord exactly as I would in real life: polite, friendly, and honest. Not virtue signaling, just saying that some of these are so direct that it still lets you interact as people before other people The best part is that it's reciprocated! At least in the servers I'm in. We mess with each other, sure, but at the end of the day, we make sure that we stay on good terms and keep the online community we're in a net positive.

@Scarshadow666 4 месяца назад

Something that is also scary is how the Internet/social media is not just built to be addictive (and often people turn to being addicted to the Internet/social media to make up for something they're missing IRL), but they're also getting more and more integrated into becoming necessities for a lot of people. For example, a lot of job searching and maintenance is exclusively done online, and people that would try to avoid being online would also struggle to avoid making a living for themselves in our capitalistic society unless they were online. A lot of students in schools/colleges also turn to learning way more online than in-person, especially since a lot of education systems need a long overdue overhaul.

@AwesomeJaneUniverse 4 месяца назад

Agreed, I keep feeling the urge to totally go cold turkey and completely disconnect, but it's just not plausible

@fernthaisetthawatkul5569 4 месяца назад

it's this way by design! they want to force you to keep buying (smartphones, computers, ipads, chargers, all sorts of devices)!

@LeaveMeFreakingAlone 4 месяца назад

I find it so complicated trying to not be on social media or a device, I can't escape it during school since we always use our chromebooks to learn and the teachers barely make me do any hand-on activities.

@terrorists-are-among-us 4 месяца назад

I hate seeing applications that demand access to your social media. No 🤡

@EmanuelChirilesc 3 месяца назад

F u ok?

@alirezaorsomething 5 месяцев назад

I used to think that the main reason why the internet is such a toxic place is because of most people feeling anonymous and that can make people show less empathy and also be more likely to say or do bad things to other people but this video shows much more than that and explains it really well

@Alverant 5 месяцев назад

Maybe not anonymous, but distant. Today a person can go into a forum filled with people they hate, "shout" a bunch of rude things, then leave feeling smug that they just upset a bunch of people without consequence. But try doing that IRL and someone may chase you or retaliate in some way.

@trashyplayer69 4 месяца назад

the internet nowadays is just brain rotting memes and songs and children making tiktok

@nicraftstudios0 4 месяца назад

It’s also that some people have believed one thing their entire life and when they’re introduced to other opinions that are different, they go on a rampage and refuse to even listen to the other side even slightest, which is a huge problem in our brains that doesn’t really have a solution

@FrahdChikun 4 месяца назад

@@nicraftstudios0 The solution, in my opinion, is to stop viewing everything as a bipartisan issue. People just whittle down every issue to "it either is, or isn't" and it's an unhealthy way of thinking. More people need to realize that the world isn't black or white, it's greyscale.

@gmattonline6068 4 месяца назад

I wish I had less empathy. I took a massive L the other day during a stupid argument against some jackass, now I feel guilty for some reason

@jonashellborg8320 Месяц назад

Amazing - really liked this video. I recall early internet, I was in a couple of forums and internet was quite simple. Today as I search for the best way to say practise music, I get drowned in at least 5 different opposing ways to do it, each with a large following, and it’s mega confusing. I guess I miss the pre internet times where you’d just ask your teacher, parents, best friend and whilst not the ultimately best answer, it was simple. :-)

@obscured.by.clouds. Месяц назад

How can I have an existential crisis when these animations are so freaking adorable? I feel so….. conflicted.

@mimispring95 4 месяца назад

It's insane how rapid the internet has changed the world within the last 20 years. That number isn't even a lot when you think about it, especially since the internet has evolved so quickly and continues to do so 😮

@Deluxe86r 4 месяца назад

Дело в том что люди слишком заняты в погоне за счастьем и им некогда остановится оглянуться и подумать что вокруг происходит и в кого нас превращают, в заключённых в цифровой тюрьме.

@Dualities 4 месяца назад

age of information and content creation. people have no idea how easy is to manipualte social media with bots and promotional accounts if u want it. social media is also a huge bussines. what young generation need to understand

@MK-fg8hi 4 месяца назад

Yes, and now the AI revolution is well under way. It's crazy how computing technologies have speed up the pace of innovation and social change

@terrorists-are-among-us 4 месяца назад

And the worst people are trying to gain fame and fortune using it.

@jamiefagan9129 4 месяца назад

And people didn't even think it was a big deal at first. It has many benefits, but we need to use it wisely

@Ajs_RV_Life 2 месяца назад

Seeing this video made me realize I'm very glad I made the choice to never pick a side, I've been saying for years humanity is like a baby trying to swim across an Olympic pool, now we desperately need to get back out of the water and actually learn and grow before we swim again.

@ismaharry 26 дней назад

The annoying thing is that we are all aware of this toxicity and burden, but really we don't take any action just to prevent for some least. This is sad, but also the bitter reality of today. Anyway, we are all under influence of social media, and we cannotdo anything about it unless we assess it in a way that would benefit us.

@SLYP1EPLUSH 5 месяцев назад

This video somehow managed to change my entire outlook on the internet.

@The_watcher_0f_YT 5 месяцев назад

You might not be the only one dude.

@the_akshay_p 5 месяцев назад

You got my word

@namelessguy5491 5 месяцев назад

hear hear

@LostMekkaSoft 5 месяцев назад

omg youre using outlook? team thunderbird is obviously the winning team there...

@lornkjewlsvar6283 5 месяцев назад

I completely agree with you. Have my like. Ah sh... here we go again.

@crimsonsusanoo5634 5 месяцев назад

2:11 you didn't have to do me like that

@hollandicus_missile 5 месяцев назад

Yeah they did They even had to tell you twice just so you could understand

@Hamdidittoo 5 месяцев назад

He called me stupid 😢

@TheGuyOfMinionRush 5 месяцев назад

😂

@happyhattergamer8078 4 месяца назад

He said it twice too…..

@axld_eas 4 месяца назад

@@hollandicus_missile*this is a example of what he said on the video

@zuclyn7628 3 месяца назад

Sometimes I think about how much more upset extremities made me feel years before, compared to how today rather than concerned I feel almost only agitated. I hope one day I can come back to being my past self, at least on that plane

@bruhattherate 3 месяца назад

I'm suffering through the same thing tbh. I once called out a RU-vidr for being selfish and only doing things for money. And his fans replied to me defending him saying that everyone is selfish and everyone only cares about themselves nothing wrong with that. It broke my heart tbh so many horrible people defending someone who are just there for money.

@j23ks1-91 3 месяца назад

Im actually pretty much addicted to the internet and I always tend to leave a comment everywhere . When I see something I don’t like I immediately disagree , yeah , I’m honestly embarrassed but I had to say it . Social media changes people , and even when I’m super shy and introverted in real life - in the internet I feel like I have an complete different personality . I feel like people spend more time online nowadays .. because they don’t know how to spend it in real life .

@sofia_jijai990 2 месяца назад

I suggest you to just become like me apolitical individual who listen to metal music while watching anime and playing video games It's non of us business to fix this world

@j23ks1-91 Месяц назад

@@sofia_jijai990 Your so right ! ♥️

@usmansiddiqui1384 5 месяцев назад

I totally agree with this. What I’ve learned after being chronically addicted to the internet is that you can disagree with someone without hating them. I can hate the idea of something but not hate the people who don’t hate it. We kind of just have to understand that everyone is different and there are so many different opinions and ideas that we just have to deal with.

@OddlyIncredible 5 месяцев назад

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle. Too little education is ultimately at the heart and core of many if not most of society's problems. As one becomes more aware of the details and nuances of a particular topic, which is absolutely a form of "more educated," one will realize that they can consider a position relating to that topic and come to the conclusion that it's not a sound position without having to "try it on for size" first. Education also allows one to _disconnect the opinion from the person espousing it, which is exactly what you're talking about here._ You can absolutely recognize someone's opinion without having to agree with it. However, this leads to another quote: “No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.” - Assata Shakur. America in particular has a problem here, and it's a big one. Politicians depend on low-information voters to pass unwise, unhelpful, or potentially risky/dangerous legislation that only really benefits select groups or individuals, and the less educated a person is the easier they are to manipulate, so there's a disincentive to encourage increasing amounts and levels of quality of education. (A great relatively recent example was Trump famously saying that he loved the poorly educated after winning the POTUS election in 2016.)

@sevenproxies4255 5 месяцев назад

@@OddlyIncredibleOver-education is the real issue, not lack of education. The whole culture war phenomenon STARTED in universities after all by student activist groups and activist professors with idiotic, utopian ideologies.

@Jen-hen 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@JackWilke 5 месяцев назад

who asked?

@tastysnacks8094 5 месяцев назад

Very true. But we can't make the mistake of just chalking everything up to different opinions and be done with it. There are opinions that are not to be accepted. A good rule of thumb is if their opinion is something that hurts others, it's probably one of those. If someone doesn't like pineapple on pizza, that's fine. If someone wants to eradicate a subset of the population, it's not and they need their attitude adjusted.

@DDuffy143 4 месяца назад

I'm an 8th grade science teacher. I showed this to my homeroom class in hopes to make the world a better place. This video explains everything I've ever wanted to put into words about our opposing views as society. Thank you Kurzgesagt. I will always rely on you to keep things real. 143

@dragongal9714 4 месяца назад

what is 143?

@DDuffy143 4 месяца назад

@@dragongal9714 my dad would write it at the end of letters he sent me when I was very young and we were hundreds of miles apart after my parents divorced. He loved numbers. It means “I love you”

@foilto3971 4 месяца назад

keep it 55 street

@VTnewcastle14 4 месяца назад

@@dragongal9714i love you

@Oobservatory_X 4 месяца назад

I have been thinking this too why people become so weird using internet

@Hambo325 3 месяца назад

I'm glad you ended with the note we're all on the same team. I've been in many relationships throughout my years and funny enough, most of the people I've been the closest with are the opposite of me politically. We learn from each other and gain a better understanding of the world, even if we still disagree.

@jacobholler5534 2 месяца назад

I didn't find the dismissal of the filter bubble to be particularly convincing. It's something that holds up pretty well logically, has some heavy investigative reporting behind it, and deserves a bit more explanation than you're giving it. It makes complete sense that the real world isolation is more impactful and perhaps more prevalent, but I think you were too quick to dismiss the concept here. Keep going on this great topic. I've been hungry for more research here for quite some time. Thanks!

@LightBringer127_dragonart 5 месяцев назад

A lot of this boils down to my understanding of the internet- when you can’t see a person’s face, they cease to be a person and become a narrative. Pretty tragic really.

@babscabs1987 5 месяцев назад

I agree with you but how often are you replying to an actual opinion online or a bot whose purpose is to antagonize?

@carlosmorazan1714 5 месяцев назад

Bingo. This is why the most successfully divisive "arguments" (for lack of a better term) in the us vs them conflict involve dehumanizing the other part as much as possible.

@ADreamingTraveler 5 месяцев назад

The best people I've ever met in my life were through the internet. They were all people I couldn't see the face of but learned them through their mind since looks say nothing about who a person is and you typing to another person is just an extension of your brain to theirs. But it's also a double edged sword because for all the wonderful people that exist online there's also a lot of bad ones. But this same thing can be said for people in your physical world. Not everyone in your town or city you meet are trustworthy just like those online.

@tigrafale4610 5 месяцев назад

I don't agree with this. I think it's even a lot more of people with real photos as profile pictures on social media, while back in the day in older forums it was a lot more anonymous.

@Ikirus 5 месяцев назад

So just the effects of dehumanization and deindivituation

@twa9342 4 месяца назад

This video actually feels so relatable - not seeing social media actually really does make me feel better.

@Enderlad 4 месяца назад

youtube is social media fam, leaving comments, likes and dislikes, the algo, it's all here

@monobiteme6014 4 месяца назад

@@Enderlad yeah but at least you go to just 1 or 3 platform and use social media for only 1 hour each day, balance it off you know its good

@twa9342 4 месяца назад

you get to learn things on youtube though@@Enderlad

@NousagiCaptain 4 месяца назад

@@EnderladRU-vid is more fractured than twitter. Thats why its not as toxic here as there. All social media isnt created equal. RU-vid still simulates the “small villages” concept. By allowing people to follow channels and congregate around videos. Without being bombarded with shit they dont wanna see. Theres not really a “time square” effect as much. But Twitter….dear god lol that place is a fucking colosseum.

@NateDoesYT 4 месяца назад

@@Enderlad Difference is that big social medias like twitter or tiktok are actually bad such as tiktok giving it's users short attention span and getting your data while twitter has a lot of toxic people, politics, propaganda, etc. meanwhile (from my experience atleast) RU-vid just feels rather much more calmer and a bit different, there are problems obviously but I think RU-vid, get's a small pass from being social media.

@shifashaikh1712 Месяц назад

I literally had this convo with my sister that why dont we see people as individuals and not seperate them in a box just because we had one bad interaction with a specific community and then i saw this

@kariossyr6018 2 месяца назад

The internet was thought to save humanity much time and efforts in knowledge and business sides. Socially, it was much praised how it would bring different people together, spreading understanding and peace among them. Now look how it turned into, and sorry how we ended up with such ego-centerizm. Enough how people are losing even common sense and younger generations are easily showing aggression!

@t.8936 Месяц назад

It took a bad turn. But what did we expect with that much power at our fingertips? It's always gonna go south.

@flam1ngicecream 5 месяцев назад

Crazy how obvious this was the moment you pointed it out. Of course the problem isn't that we're too isolated, it's that we're too connected to too many people at once, and our brains can't handle it.

@ANGST.ARGENTINA 4 месяца назад

Yes, but It's also true that the people we are positively connected to are too far away and it's impossible to interact with them in an everyday scenario. Ultimately we are surrounded IRL by people we don't like, scrolling through social media interacting with people we don't like and finally attempting to socialize with the 5 people around the globe we find meaningful feeling the most isolated as we've ever been.

@Solarizzin 4 месяца назад

I personally dislike that the video's solution was choosing to stay in small communities that agree with you, rather than trying to argue other philosophies to see if you are logically flawed in practice, by staying in small communities that are there to support our view, it doesn't matter how easy it is to disect flaws in it, because nobody ever argues when you share the same opinion and you don't improve or make progress.

@vinching926 4 месяца назад

We're just isolated from the kind people, people who would think before they leap in real life, instead we're now making everything rude, vile, black or white with so much connectivity and building up bubbles on internet, making propaganda groups all over thale place and get all of us "satisfied"

@DeezNuts-ju1rj 4 месяца назад

reminds me of the babel fish in hitchhikers guide

@triv4555 4 месяца назад

@@Solarizzin Fair point. The only "good" thing about conflict on social media is that you can learn to disagree civilly from it...but unfortunately most people won't learn that lesson I'm sure

@Pheminon1 5 месяцев назад

I got rid of all my social media at the beginning of the year. The thing that was my tipping point was 2 things: Realizing that people that talk about finances/economics (I'm an accountant) never know what they're talking about. So I just sat there and screamed into nothing trying to correct every comment I saw thinking that I would some day make a difference or something. That, and the fact that I would never know these people existed if social media did not exist and there's a high chance that I could have been arguing with just a straight up child. I'm 26, and the thought of me getting mad and ANYTHING a minor says online and trying to dunk on them filled me with so much shame, that I just got rid of social media. You don't need it. There is so much to do OUTSIDE of your phone. I think we honestly forget that. If you ACTUALLY look, there's so much free stuff to do, and even more if you're willing to spend some money. Get off of social media. Make yourself happy; you deserve it

@joroc 5 месяцев назад

yet you're here

@PippeML 5 месяцев назад

I toned down a lot my social media on 2023, RU-vid is mostly the only thing I use (very little) facebook like 2/minutes a day if any, the rest of the social media apps I don’t use them (IG, TT etc). I went to my parents house to spend the day, and my Mom did notice and say “hey you are of the few people I don’t see glued to their phones” I had the most amazing day with my Mom and Dad. Kurzgesagt is one of the few things I actively follow 😊. I definitely recommend to tone down social media 🎉

@irelandcm 5 месяцев назад

@@jorocRU-vid at this point is barely social media Damn you just got ratioed in the yt replys

@TheSwauzz 5 месяцев назад

@@joroc RU-vid is a video sharing platform first, not a social media platform. Some people use it that way, but the absolute majority just scream into the void with their comments, never expecting any replies.

@talongodin2253 5 месяцев назад

This person for president

@user-pi8he1yp2x 3 месяца назад

I appreciate you make an opportunity to find such a great news site. I like Ground News so much.

@notconvinced2204 3 месяца назад

It leaks into my real life. My brother is the embodiment of everyone I argue with online and he sees me the same way. Ultimately he’s my little brother, and I love him, and reconciling with him made me more empathetic to the idiots I argued with online. I think balancing real life interaction with online interaction (iow touching grass) is very important.

@heinoustentacles5719 4 месяца назад

I am so glad that someone with great reach is recommending the 'Old Internet' model. I've been ranting all over the place about how people should be browsing forums and using small websites. I've even used the same explanation that there was less unnecessary conflict because everyone could find their niche, and how things like cancel culture would have no legs since people wouldn't have their whole online life in just one place, and how things like Tumblr getting radicalized (and then Twitter getting radicalized when Tumblr alienated a large amount of their userbase), wouldn't have happened, since people wouldn't have felt social pressure to conform to popular opinion so that they can stay on the site that 'everyone' is using. Way too many people are just hoping for the perfect 'platform' to come along, when in reality you can go and seek out any number of websites that appeal to you, or even set up your own.

@thesjkexperience 4 месяца назад

Yes, the internet changed when the masses bought computers to watch the towers fall down over and over. I was on the net by late ‘93 and it was mostly nerds with similar humor.

@maxkho00 4 месяца назад

But this model has already been implemented. It even has a name: Reddit. And guess what? It literally only exacerbates the problem; and this shouldn't be surprising, either, since isolated communities are bound *by design* to end up as echo chambers. I'm not sure what Kurzgesagt was thinking when they produced this video.

@pwhnckexstflajizdryvombqug9042 4 месяца назад

@@maxkho00the problem is it’s too easy to change your “tribe” and people are organised by what they already think, or they think the same way as whatever extremist group they already came across. Reddit happens because people on the internet don’t have to agree. They don’t have to resolve conflict. They can just find a new group of people who agree with them. It’s a really really hard problem, because people shouldn’t conform to their tribe or their society if their tribe is toxic, unhealthy or a cult. But if people are given the ability to change their tribe, they are more likely to join an echo chamber, or people that already agree with them. We have to remember that tribal society wasn’t actually very good, it could be worse than social media. Remember back then they didn’t tolerate anyone who wasn’t part of their tribe, they fort a lot more with other tribes; people with disability were excluded and killed, and there are still conflicts going on today about tribal issues that have been ongoing for hundreds of years. I don’t think there is a solution

@dawsonb1618 4 месяца назад

build your own website? it won't work the purpose of every small freedom of speech or information website is to be purchased buy a large company and controlled it keeps up the illusion of freedom of speech hell look at rotten tomatoes is a perfect example for you I don't doubt that the internet will revert back to the way it used to be all by design of course the government will section off certain parts of the internet this will make it far easier to control because the community will control itself there will be less outliers then and everyone will be happy because this is what they wanted. what you wanted 😉

@natashakatgaming6987 4 месяца назад

The funny thing is though. Amino is kinda like that. Since every community/fandom is separated. Where everything you ever want to stay in one community stays on it. We will of course have a crossover here and there. But that's why I'm still using it this day as it's just easier to go there and say to myself. "Let's see what is going on today" It's pretty relaxing in my opinion. The only thing that kept me stress however was doing rps but besides that. I feel safe and calm. ^^

@TimeBucks 4 месяца назад

I'm glad someone is acknowledging this.

@geistreichtube Месяц назад

I still believe MySpace was the Golden Age of Social Media!

@marialourainebanosia26 22 дня назад

Can you tell me everything about myspace from how it began and how it ended

@omgitzpaige2013 Месяц назад

this also explains to me why it feels so different that i’m young enough that i don’t remember a time before the internet, but old enough that i remember pre-social media internet. at least like mainstream social media and it being talked about like in the news.

@user-nt4yu4er6m 4 месяца назад

“Unfortunately, your brain is stupid” is probably the most accurate sentence describing mankind I have ever seen Edit: guys, I don’t mean to be that guy, but please stop the civil war in the replies

@stureremil9873 4 месяца назад

Yes, specially americans 🌈🌈🌈

@Reset-sm6rg 4 месяца назад

@@stureremil9873Sorry, but you might be causing the same problems as described in the video. It's good to refrain from generalizing just one group, but recognize this brain-fogging era of social media is affecting ALL of us. Just like the video said, it's happening all over the world, and that is important to know.

@stureremil9873 4 месяца назад

@@Reset-sm6rg and who is invented the cancel culture? Fat acceptance? American start all of it.. its not about generalized my guy.. if they doing stupid stuff people copying the stupid stuff..

@mike4617 4 месяца назад

Not really because it sounds like an excuse, but then again.

@greyshadow37 4 месяца назад

@@stureremil9873You can forgive them.

@Sharples97 4 месяца назад

Spent hours at a bar the other night trying to convince 2 individuals to see people as people. Instead, they did everything to try and dominate the conversation and put me in a box based off my race, gender, and sexuality

@lordnokia4222 4 месяца назад

Average conversation with right-wingers that share the same brain cell:

@thegeforce6625 4 месяца назад

Jesus that’s depressing.

@Beanland999 4 месяца назад

I see people differently due to what I've learned and what I've experienced. Some people will judge you and try to make you feel different based off of their thoughts and beliefs, like those 2 individuals for example. Sadly, humanity has already divided itself into groups based off of social constructs. It's best to just prove people wrong rather than try to convince them in a conversation.

@tofanamedia 4 месяца назад

Remember you’re not in the wrong. They’re only harming themselves

@luna-mt7sf 4 месяца назад

record them and post them in social media 😂😂😂

@MavinReyes Месяц назад

Disconnect to connect.

@allan3787 2 месяца назад

Hi, first of all your video is great, secondly it make think a lot. I spend too much time on my phone and social media and i was think that too those days, I wanna thank you for that because I was saying my self everything you've told in your video early this day at work. Thanks and count on me to share your video.

@aqualungman6997 4 месяца назад

"The human brain was not designed to understand the nature of reality" is a statement I wholeheartedly agree with. And yet I believe that understanding is the next step we need to take as a species. The more we see through the primal facade of tribalism and social identity, the more trivial and pointless our biases, bigotry, willful ignorance will become. We are all just scared apes with dangerous toys that we've unleashed (and yet barely understand). All of us need to come together and realize that if we don't "grow up" and evolve past our ancestral past of fear and violence, we will all die out like almost every other creature that has ever walked this planet.

@CajunGator 4 месяца назад

4th and 5th dimension start somewhere.

@Nostalg1a 4 месяца назад

Maybe it's for the better we don't take the next step. We are only a few steps from xenophobic space colonialism and nuking earth. Ever wondered that maybe we were not supposed to "evolve" more?

@furiousdestroyah9999 4 месяца назад

True. We can only keep repeating the same mistakes over and over for so long...

@tavernburner3066 4 месяца назад

@@furiousdestroyah9999 watch the video

@furiousdestroyah9999 4 месяца назад

@@tavernburner3066 Already did

@baddestmofo923 5 месяцев назад

It’s so important to be aware of what the Internet does to us as human beings. I know people who basically live on social media and their whole real life views are so abstracted and far from reality. Thank you Kurzgesagt for bringing awareness to this matter.

@wigglespeedturbo6324 4 месяца назад

This video is about how spending time in real life drives your views away from reality. The internet is bad because it shows you too much reality. Your brain isn't prepared for reality.

@KartikChauhan__KC 4 месяца назад

Internet can't do anything to you, it's a tool for you to use and utilize.

@dez-pw8jy 4 месяца назад

@@KartikChauhan__KCthat's not completely true

@baddestmofo923 4 месяца назад

@@KartikChauhan__KC I agree it cant do anything to you physically. But it can influence your point of view and make you think in a specific way without you knowing it, which is also explained beautifully in the video. Of course you can use it as a tool to do good. But the same can be said the other way around

@KarminCenteno Месяц назад

i started to write about things and i think that looking at other peoples perspectives and hearing other sides of the story can really help me be more open minded and it even made me realise how even i as a person am similiar to other people whod i thought i wouldnt even agree with! we are all weird human beings! we all have weird system in our brains that makes us who we are and in the end of the day we are all in this small rock we call home.

@ijjj4067 Месяц назад

I disagree with the bubble thing. When I am on youtube my extrem opinions becomes stronger. When i discuss with people at my workplace i get oppinions i never see online

@davidmurphy7332 5 месяцев назад

The other thing with the "old" internet was how shonky it used to be, so the lack of a professional sheen meant it was much easier for people to take things on there with a pinch of salt and not believe the absolute bollocks from it that some do these days

@dontkickmychick6076 5 месяцев назад

Man I wasn't even born in that era and even I miss the charm the old internet had

@akatsukilevi 5 месяцев назад

People nowadays forget the most crucial rule about the internet It isn't because it is on internet that it is factually true The sheer amount of people who sees half a thing on Facebook, Twitter or TikTok and just go panicking over it "because I saw it there!" without proper fact-checking really shows this

@anthonyortiz350 5 месяцев назад

SHONKY? eh? what on earth is Shonky?🤣🤣

@Cinemagrins 5 месяцев назад

lol great point, message boards never felt like The World for me, it was a place to banter, it didn't feel like real life or had any actual implications. AOL chat rooms were places to banter and flirt maybe find a lover. Social media began to bleed into reality like the things done and said on it WERE real life and would be reviewed for the entire world to judge. This isn't just Twitter but everywhere online. The brilliant thing Google does with its social media is not necessarily connect what you say on here with your real life profile. So if I never want to engage I just don't read my notifications but if I google what I said or google I don't see a bunch of stuff connected to me. If you tweet with your IRL name it can get back to you in a bad way.

@AnnafromHungarylvNW 5 месяцев назад

@@anthonyortiz350 Sounds like a dorky Brit who got that as a nickname after a drunk night in college

@DrunkFlux 4 месяца назад

This explains my feeling about why I disliked social media, that I couldn't quite place. I saw people get far, far more narrow minded and even I cannot help but feel I was more narrow minded when I used social media. I quit and I began to flat-out say no, and started digging on two sides half the time. I ended up coming across a youtube channel(not this one) that actually seemed surprisingly wholesome, with its main poster actually highlighting an exact problem I had with some gaslighting trolls behavior, and how they also had contrasting views yet still got along. I came to the conclusion that, in the earlier pre-social media days of the internet that old people like me remember(damn you Kursgesagt! DAMN YOU!), we were happier on the internet because we didn't have to be online 24/7 in the name of some idiots profit. We were happier with smaller communities online.

@PrinceKaladin 4 месяца назад

This exact idea is why I really only interact with reddit as a social media. I can focus my interactions into the communities that interest me, and once I have the information/entertainment I need, I can leave and not feel bad about it

@MacBorin 4 месяца назад

I'm thinking about the queation: "Is RU-vid a kind of social media platform?" I mean, there is a similar engagement fokused algorythm, opinions, groups (channels) you join etc. If it is, is it fractured enough (as in the proposed solution in this video) to not social sort people as much?

@darthsirrius 4 месяца назад

My roommate and I never got into social media, don't use any of it at all, and we've always referred to it as literal cancer. That's since it was invented & to this very day.

@KostasTsakalidis 4 месяца назад

I too only see videos in RU-vid, and have left all other social medias. I too think this (aka our team ;) ) is better than the... other team, but I see that there is another team who has positives and negatives, and we need to somehow reach out to them, because the planet is on fire yo, and we need to work this out, just.. not me.. not today. But this analysis made me realise this, I did not realise it before and now I feel I need to do something about this. I am not even sure how to make my wife see this video, who likes Kurzgesagt but does not like sitting for 20 mins and watching a video.. I dk.

@orientalejoji7500 4 месяца назад

I did not know that you all had to write an English essay

@ondosan Месяц назад

Great work! Thanks for doing this!

@user-gt4jv2eq5x Месяц назад

Ever since social media became popular I've felt there started to be something wrong with people and I couldn't put my finger on it thats i never fully accepted it as normal as most people did Being constantly connected to everything all the time and chasing validation from strangers while also constantly comparing yourself to them can't be a good thing It can be a good thing if you using right and in moderation but most people don't And thats the problem

@snowflake3608 4 месяца назад

I’ve been saying this for years. Social Media was the worst thing to happen to us. I’d love the 90’s internet back.

@AronJF 4 месяца назад

It’s never gonna happen unfortunately. You can’t please these inflated ego billionaires.

@astraySparrow 4 месяца назад

@@AronJFwhile online blogs like MySpace and others don’t really exist anymore, there are still forums and blogs people run dedicated to individual interests, so you can in fact still browse those or make your own, however it’s more time consuming and requires an actual engagement and sometimes effort to use them, most people will choose platforms which doesn’t require any effort to use them whatsoever, but if online “downsizing” becomes more of a trend, we may return to some form of old internet eventually.

@Merciful_Angel 4 месяца назад

We traded our freedoms for ease of use. The only way to find anything was a search engine, but the company who created the best search algorithm (Google) ended up choosing where we go and what we look at. And try leaving social media; I stopped using Facebook over half a decade ago and I still have people complaining at me IRL that they sent me something time-sensitive and I didn't look at it in time.

@bifrostbeberast3246 4 месяца назад

@@RedTiger-uk4xb Amen. I feel ashamed how I have been the problem so often doing similar comments to vent my frustration about myself or the opinion of others instead of confronting what they said. (When trying to normally talk about something, one is perceived as weak, so people just comment in a snarky and "clever" way to appear superior. I hate this monkey brain of mine). So let me apologize in the name of other morons like me who have done the same to you. I'm sincerely sorry!

@claudioaliaga3293 4 месяца назад

absolutely 100% totally agree!

@frodethorsenbrseth5014 5 месяцев назад

This is something I'm intensely passionate about and used to worry a lot over. Appropriately, a few years ago I wrote a blog post about this tendency in society, where our social graph has been flipped on its head, from being tightly connected on geographically small scales, to being connected at almost all scales of the world. If you do this with almost any dynamical system in a numeric simulation, such as forest fires or epidemics, you get extreme behaviour very quickly. And look at us, that's the case with us as well.

@JackWilke 5 месяцев назад

who asked?

@KnowledgeSphere-je9ee 5 месяцев назад

Kurzgesagt steals my animations for views and have gotten filthy rich off my hard work

@user-iy5ww2hj4p 5 месяцев назад

Bro got jumped by bots 😂😂

@kiophoenix 5 месяцев назад

@@user-iy5ww2hj4p😂😂

@idkissausername1667 5 месяцев назад

@@user-iy5ww2hj4p"they jumpin me...THEY JUMPIN MEEEE, SAVE YA BOYYYY"

@gothelvis3541 3 месяца назад

A phrase that has always helped me recently. (Although I am still human and get angry) "Nothing is one way"

@orphicswamp Месяц назад

Absolutely stunning video. Perhaps the best video I've seen here. Amazing

@DemiMurgos 4 месяца назад

As an ex-journalist, huge thanks for pointing towards Ground News, it is mind-boggingly useful and the whole polarization of media/society is such an important, yet so very well overlooked topic. Thank you for what you are doing!

@beastrule 4 месяца назад

Everyone should use ground news

@eingyi2500 4 месяца назад

Ground news is much worse than allsides

@thelastvalkyrie1998 4 месяца назад

I love Ground. It’s a fantastic way to view the world in a nuanced way by looking into differing opinions.

@yourlilllamabud1714 4 месяца назад

I made the likes 299, your welcome.

@abhisheksarkar1464 4 месяца назад

Internet has become really toxic after the lockdown period. People have gone crazy

@krissydiggs 4 месяца назад

Fun internet tip! If people are ever being really crappy to you on the internet, calmly ask them if they feel better having said something like that to you. Won’t work for everyone, but I find that when people are being mean to you online they aren’t thinking of the human that you are. Calling into question their own actions kinda works.

@Gir_fan 4 месяца назад

I usually say "Why are you acting like this?" or "What did I do to you?".

@11111110 4 месяца назад

Nah, from their perspective, they think they're helping you become a better person through bullying. Or they don't see themselves as "mean" because they're just acting how they themselves have been treated their whole life

@Gridkeeperr 4 месяца назад

Misery likes company, they like to make people miserable because they are. They’re good at calling their insults "jokes", it hurts the ones whose jokes are not intended to harm.

@Gir_fan 4 месяца назад

@@Gridkeeperr Exactly

@planescaped 4 месяца назад

Anonymity breeds contempt, and for most internet cretins they dehumanize the other people they interact with online. "They're not real people, they're interweb people, and I'm not holding _anything_ back." There's literally no repercussions for them if they offend, insult, harass, demean or make a fool of themselves. It's consequence free. My fear is one day our internet self will be tied to a SSN and the death of internet anonymity. Where insulting someone on the internet will get you real-life consequences. It'd solve a lot of problems sure... but it would change the internet forever. There'll always be the darkweb though so the way the internet is now will never be truly gone. I feel the front face of the internet has an expiration date though...

@bilalatheist2016 3 месяца назад

totally agree with you, very good video, thanks

@NecSchel 14 дней назад

I'm a Xennial who first started using chat rooms in the 90s and then turned over to forums. Already back then I got partly addicted to it and thought that the tone and expression of views is kinda radical and doesn't reflect reality. I caught myself carrying views which I wouldn't have shared before and it started to scare me. When social media popped up in the mid-2000s I was like wtf this is gonna kill me. I used FB for some while, but then decided to delete it. Except for youtube I'm not an any other social media right now.

@dvdlesher 4 месяца назад

I remember someone saying that because everyone is now behind a screen and instead of looking at each other's face directly to communicate, it makes them meaner because there's less repercussion when you say bad things to them and vice versa, whereas if you insulted someone and you see reaction on their face directly, you might be inclined to think more about what you say next

@wyethleon 4 месяца назад

That's true. Look at online gaming people can flame all they want until they get confronted in person.

@scribblecloud 4 месяца назад

definitely true, ive even seen someone straight up admit it in a comment section and act righteous about it

@terpman 4 месяца назад

Completely true. There's a lot of social cues and communication that cannot be conveyed online. Our brains are not wired to communicate this way and they really struggle to cope sometimes. A lot of people don't understand that your brain is doing a lot of stuff when you're just simply talking to someone face-to-face. Lots of hormones and chemicals and nervous system responses are going on. It's impossible to get that right across the internet.