• brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I think imagegen exposed how vapid Instagram twerking always was.

    I’m sorry if that sounds shallow, but so much of social media is exactly that. If mass doomscrolling of softcore AI porn is a problem, perhaps we shouldn’t have set the system up with real softcore in the first place, and given control of the world to a few Tech Bros in the process?

    If all this breaks the Insta influencer ecosystem, because scrollers realize it’s not real anyway, well… maybe that’s not such a bad thing. It sucks for honest influencers, but they’re in a toxic system.

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      3 days ago

      I can’t believe how normalized it is.

      And I’m pretty sure a large percentage of people think they are secretly one of the few participating in it. And then there are people oblivious to it all who tell on themselves by asking out loud why this stuff keeps showing up in their feeds.