@yaodema yeah i feel like that'd be most people's reaction? but i don't get why people make videos like that but it must be effective because the big content farms do it and they basically study how to manipulate people into clicking on things and i don't get it, it doesn't seem like it should be effective but it must be
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@yaodema that was long and rambly but i am basically saying it apparently works to get people to click on things and i don't get why
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@Felthry best guess I have is the rapid fire nature of it, and the knowledge that it'll take X amount of time, and maybe they can tell friends about some neat thing they heard in it

@Kilroy yeah that's basically what i'm asking

i don't get how that kind of stuff is apparently so successful though

because it's pretty obviously like... overblown and fake?
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@Felthry @Kilroy

Things started to go downhill when they realized they didn't even have to put in real things. They could make up outrageous fake nonsense like washing a shirt in apple juice or whatever, and people would pass it around anyway saying "hey Fred, look how stupid this article/video is!"

@KinkyTurtle @Kilroy apparently some of those fake things are actively harmful though, like putting food in bleach to turn it white
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@KinkyTurtle @Kilroy which actually works for some foods but also would be horribly toxic if you actually ate it
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@Felthry @KinkyTurtle Oh heck yeah. What's scary about some of those is they can be geared towards kids who absolutely do not know better and can cause themselves extremely serious harm and/or death D:

@dodec Huh, that doesn't come off as saying "you're ignorant" to me, feels more like just "neat things that lots of people don't know"
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