They certainly manipulated us. Their cries attempt to mimic that of human babies in tone and frequency so they can get a response from us.

I was really hoping that with the onset of AI people would be more skeptical of content they see online.

This was one of the reasons. I don’t think there’s anything we can do to prevent people from acting like this, but what we can do as a society is adjust to it so that it’s not as harmful. I’m still hoping that the eventual onset of it becoming easily accessible and useable will help people to look at all content much more closely.

Just let it happen at this point. I get the idea of trying to moderate the content so that it’s not a bunch of thirst streams and so that there are actually people doing various activities on there, but people act like this because it gets views.

Just let people get it out of their systems. Might take a few years, but eventually there will be people looking to watch regular people playing video games, making art, playing music or just talking again.

Appreciate this.

The patriarchy and gender roles are definitely a big part of why men suffer, and it’s as much of a men’s issue as it is a women’s issue.

That said, I do think it’s debatable on whether or not modern feminism is truly intent on dismantling it from both sides.

I wouldn’t say identify. Pretty sure many of us don’t follow Andrew Tate or influencers in general. We’re showing empathy for the general situation. Sorry it bothered you.

The comments are quite saddening, and also quite worrying.

This isn’t to put women’s issues down, but men have problems too. There’s a reason why young men turn to these grifters and get manipulated by them.

Even above all of that, assuming you don’t agree, it’s a problem. We’re building up generations of uneducated and toxic men led by these role models. We can’t just shrug that off and say it’s not our issue, because at some point it is going to be our issue.

Yeah but it’s demonized all the same.

We’ve been doing it for a long time too when you really think about it.

A person on their own can be rather suspicious but once they have others around them they seem rather normal. This sadly goes for everything in life, from being the quiet kid in school to even something like a single politician running. Ironically, people are often times at their worse when they’re in groups though.