I understand that once someone reads the title they may go, duh, it's not real life or whatever. But i am not talking about that. I have already talked so many times about my concerns related to algorithms being weaponised, bot farms which are influencing people indirectly. And in between this cycle, i was just trying to sleep but couldn't so i went and cooked a bit of food for myself. I tried to check upon bhach, then some other social media. And the realization about everything, how it's worse than we realize.

There's this post i saw "My Mom made me a gta 6 style cake", but image was completely spammed with gta 6 stuff as if it's like advertisement. GTA 6 is something for which lot of gamers are excited, but the idea about astroturfing by companies came into mind.

How bad can it be, that even the most influential corpos who we might see as not needing any 'advertisement' being involved in very subtle astroturfing, psyops.

And then you look through the absolute state of social media in 2025,

  • bots

  • ai posts

  • political parties shills

  • company shills

It's tiresome.

The human element is diminishing day by day, the escapism of social media is long gone. We self-registered ourselves into the jail in exchange of abundance of the dopamine hits.

Everything should be done to push people to leave this cage, social media provides no value. Just go outside, touch grass. Do whatever but don't scroll.

Death to scrooolling.

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