raising teenagers

  • The Emergence of Enshittification

    The Emergence of Enshittification The word 'Enshittification', originally coined by Cory Doctorow. During the 2010s, a Swedish gamer known as PewDiePie filmed himself reacting loudly to video games in his bedroom. It was simple, it was personal, and it worked. Around the same time, a group of friends calling themselves Dude Perfect turned endless trick shots into a global format. MrBeast once filmed himself counting out loud all the way to 100,000, and millions tuned in to watch. Perhaps these creators grew up watching the early Jackass series on MTV, the original template for filming yourself doing something reckless just to get a reaction. None of it was harmful. Most of it was fun. At first. The problem was never any single creator. It was the machine they were feeding. Every video had to beat the last one to survive the algorithm, so the stakes kept climbing. By the time [...]
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