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Nate Winchester's avatar

~~Every platform is force-feeding you the most extreme examples of young male dysfunction. The algorithm doesn't show you the millions of young men working, studying, volunteering, or living normal lives.~~

That's true of every locus of hate on the web. The target of their hate will just be an endless example of the extremes. Because with 8 bil people on the planet now, any group will have hundreds of millions of members now. Meaning even just 1% of it misbehaving will give you enough instances of bad behavior to watch all day every day for years on end. So everybody gets to feel justified in their hatred.

What makes it... interesting is that an old manga called Yuyu Hakusho published in '90-94 all but predicted this with the "chapter black tape" which was adapted in the anime.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUuQBg0FBfs

https://yuyuhakusho.fandom.com/wiki/Chapter_Black

To quote the wiki: "The tape's contents are so horrifying that it can turn humans against their own kind such as the case with Kiyoshi Mitarai, . . .More severe cases include Dr. Minoru Kamiya, becoming absolutely nihilistic and emotionally unstable to the point of homicidal madness, and Spirit Detective Shinobu Sensui, whose period of moral and ethical disenchantment was soon driven into absolute misanthropy and a desire to end the human race."

Of course that was a mystical tape created by the supernatural realms. Not even the original author was myopic enough to imagine we would create the tape on our own and willingly subject ourselves to it.

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Rohan P.'s avatar

Thank you for pointing out that young men are specifically being targeted. Misandry has become so normalised that it just fades into the background these days.

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