#internet woes

[coffeegleek]

I know YTbers need to make money via sponsors, but I am not going to sit through you plugging a wee woo supplement. I'll like and subscribe your post and channel mocking the demented cheeto, but I am not listening to (or pausing to mute when I'm in the middle of a task) the ad for bs.

[vodkafolie]

Mannnn I need to stop looking at the comments on youtube recipes because at least a third will all be bean soupers whining that they don't like X component of the recipe and asking the creator if they can switch it to something completely different or proclaiming how much they hate Y ingredient or have the reading comprehension of gnats

"Stop calling it a lobster roll!! >:( shrimp is not lobster!!!"

at no point in the title nor in the video did the creator call it a lobster roll. it's supposed to be a budget-friendly option that uses large, cheaper shrimp as a substitute

"Ugh stop using mayo, mayo is disgusting and I demand that you stop using mayo in your future recipes and also reply to my concerns directly"

why are you complaining about a recipe that relies on mayonnaise when you don't like mayonnaise. go eat dry shrimp on a dry sandwich in your tar pit

"btw you can sub the shrimp for paneer!"

it's not a fucking shrimp roll then, is it? you've skipped 95% of the recipe is what you've done. Just slop mayonnaise and paneer in a fucking hotdog bun and call it a day I guess

"Stop using metric >:((((("

agreed. let's all start using kelvin instead

[hydeordie]

Assuage the Algorithm

Cribbed my own title from a show I curated like...8 years ago

[coffeegleek]

Look up to see if the sticky floor tiles you used are still around, get a ton of flooring ads on YT. Which at least is better than "wtf do you think my browser history would make you think I needed any of these products that I have never used, never looked up, and have absolutely zero interest in?" Ads that I often can't skip because I'm always doing something else at the same time and can't get to the phone (like washing dishes.)

[woozapooza]

Not a fan of that thing where someone will make a post that deliberately uses inflammatory language (I'm not talking about metaphors here), and when people engage with the actual literal language that is used in the post, the OP (or people who agree with them) will be like "ugh you're all so illiterate! Obviously this post isn't saying [thing that it literally says], it's saying [much more nuanced and reasonable position]!" Okay then why didn't you just say that in the first place?

[vampireslucy]

I always try to ignore and have empathy for people who are clearly being mean for the sake of being mean on the internet because I can understand where they come from - 10 years or so ago I went through an incredibly sad, complicated and traumatizing period of time that made me bitter, angry and overall cruel. to this day I am glad I was also extreely busy and momentarily left fandoms and the internet.

and here's my point: please, if you can, if you feel anything like the way I described before, my advice would be to piece out of fandoms and social media and go find happiness outside of it. it is literally the only way to realize you can actually spend your limited free time with things you actually love and ignoring those you hate. because i can only imagine the shit i would have done and said on here if i had stayed around instead of working on the literal mental tar pit i was trapped in. i mean i don't have to imagine it. i see it every day

[recoiles]

think my biggest and ugliest question is how many of the issues i'm having can be pigeonholed under audhd, traumatic upbringing, mental illness and so on (aka things that were not necessarily my 'fault') and how much of this is a result of me having grown up fixed in front a screen in complete disregard of the world beyond it? did i care so little for my education as a teenager (and young adult) because i was busy trying to survive and hadn't any resources left to engage with anything else or was i simply .. inadequate in some way? why didn't i want to read books? why did i stop wanting to do anything besides be on my computer? why did this not strike me as a problem? am i weak willed? is it entirely my fault or am i a symptom of a bigger societal problem? was i too unwell to give a shit about anything or do i simply lack what it takes to give a shit about the things that matter? am i a product of my iphone soused upbringing or have i simply fucking failed here

[woozapooza]

Absolutely hate that thing where you express a criticism or a negative opinion about something and people somehow interpret this criticism/negative opinion as a proposal to enact legislation banning the thing you were criticizing