alt Hacker NewsMan what a PoS this guy was.
he started as a lame re-poster
>His head was turned by the substantial sum of money: “I told my wife, wow, it’s £1,000.” >Then, to his annoyance, TikTok immediately deleted his account because he was just stealing other people’s videos and reposting them.
and dove straight into fabricating hate, and worst of all after directly confronted seems to literally have no concept of what he was doing or that it was in any way wrong or distasteful.
>The man appears confused by the fuss his actions have caused. He gives the impression that he considered TikTok’s algorithm and the site’s content regulation policies to be the ultimate arbiter of whether a video crossed a line.
>It wasn’t racist,” the man says of his account. He argues that if the videos had really been racist, TikTok’s algorithm would have downgraded the content.
Seems to lack any internal moral compass, basically if the website lets him slander or lie it must be ok because he has no capacity to assess that value for himself.
Flippin scary people like that are out there.
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If this topic interests you, I recommend `Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation`, by Andrew Marantz. Great read but it's definitely stress inducing at times.
I would say about 20% of people are like that. Total disregard for common good, maximal selfishness.
This endemic of much of the “creator” economy. Anything goes if it gets you clicks. And TikTok does have lose moderation. If this happened on YouTube he would have been demonetised sooner.
These people are everywhere.
Instagram serves me antisemetic content consistently with no way for me to downvote it. Likewise when it tries to rage bait me with islamophobic shit.
I do not engage or upvote other than taking screenshots and reporting. At this point I just don't open Instagram except for messages from friends
It is incredible that they literally fund selfish assholes to do this. What worse is that they will not reap the vile harvest.
Yes, there are people like that out there. If this makes your head spin, I can't imagine what the Epstein Files must be doing to you!
When someone has a complete lack of values like this, it always makes me wonder what their upbringing was like.