Actually really tired of people playing the deliberately obtuse game when it comes to porn/sexualized content/thirst traps and algorithms
Like any time someone dares to step out of the status quo and acknowledge that the amount of sexualized/half naked content that shows up on their social media feeds is annoying, male or female, the pro porn people (likely the ones posting thirst traps) immediately “well you build your own algorithm! It only shows you that because you engage with it”
This is a ridiculous claim imo. Why would we ever be surprised that, in a capitalistic society where engagement and data are currency, big companies who stand to profit from said engagement would use the sex sells method on as many people’s feeds as possible regardless of their usual algorithms?
I am 28 years old. I’ve seen enough porn. I don’t need to seek it out. I am anti porn & anti porn culture. I assure you, I don’t seek out the shit. And yet… it creeps its way in. And like… it is not like I’m asking you to do rocket science when I ask you to think critically about the society we live in and how sex is so deeply entangled with capitalism.
These companies don’t just give you free reign over your algorithm - yes you can curate an fyp on TikTok that shows you things you like, but the end goal on the company’s part is to monetize, monetize, monetize. And if engagement is money, they can’t just show you videos that align with your current hyper fixation about civil war era trains. They have to also show you controversial content for example - things they know you’ll disagree with, things they know will make you angry, things they know will cause you to spend some time arguing in the comment section.
I assure you, they also intentionally show thirst traps and stealth only fans advertisements on purpose. To everyone. And people can pretend they’re not seeing it every now and then, but they are. I know that they are. My late mother was an elderly, devout Catholic who barely knew how to use her phone… most of her feed was about the Bible & ovarian cancer awareness. and yet Facebook found ways to show her things that had her clutching her pearls, to the point she was trying to detox and delete it (was a bit of an addict) shortly before she started hospice.
It is a problem. To pretend that it isn’t happening and to gaslight people and flip it on them like they’re all categorically “asking for it” is literally psychopathological imo. Yes, algorithms work a certain way… but they don’t only work in your favor all the time. These apps are not free for no reason, and they do not just make their money off of advertising and marketing. They harvest engagement and they will do what they have to do to get their money.
May sound mean but the people who try to gaslight everyone who’s sick of the constant porn being shoved down our throats are either 1) those who create the porn/thirst traps/whatever the fuck or 2) those who create the demand for it. And how dare we, as normal people, have anything negative to say about it. Don’t you know the internet is for them? The internet exists solely for porn and jerking off and sexualization and dehumanization of women. It is not meant for funny videos or interesting videos or for research or for community, no. Those things are all secondary. Porn comes first, always And if you don’t like that, then you just need to get off the internet and it’s your fault anyways.
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