I don't know if this is just a thing in my circle but many people I otherwise respect keep sending me instagram/youtube links. I do not use instagram and other similar social media for various reasons (and yes I know a lot of reddit is like instagram, I don't use those subreddits, but on instagram it's a combined feed that's harder to self-moderate).

Anyway a large amount of this content is just plain crap. BS "reaction" videos, fake news, AI slop, etc. I could link some examples here but I don't want to spread such links more.

I'm guessing this is a common experience. How do you deal with this? Do you just ignore them? I've tried asking them to not send me such content but it seems to have no effect. Plenty of people are mindlessly consuming and sharing this content on autopilot.


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