We Enjoy Being Brainwashed

Lauri Elias
2 min readJun 25, 2024

I get regular notices on Twitter about how a meme I liked that happened to cater to all of my favourite biases is a lie.

Tweet provoking outrage that George Floyd was murdered buy Laken Riley only ‘killed’
https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1794694555385946430

The wokes are at it again?

Community Note explaining the Floyd/Riley differentiation
Nope
Community Note saying Ebrahim Raisi didn’t fall down in a Russian-made helicopter but in a Bell 212
https://x.com/secretsqrl123/status/1792243230047650032

Without Community Notes, I’d remain oblivious, my like fueling some troll factory’s metrics. Another dumb Westerner radicalized.

Browsing relevant hashtags chronologically reveals ‘the left’ having discussions I never see in my personalized feed.

ChatGPT has no qualms being a firehose of this:

Picture of ChatGPT recommending good ragebait for alt-righters
https://chatgpt.com/share/111ec6f2-955a-48b1-bf38-382dd28bd07a

AI can generate (even more) pictures & video of Ьⅼаϲκѕ robbing grocery stores or Μυѕⅼіⅿѕ groping women in Germany.

‘Conservatives’ will lap it up and ask for seconds.

It’s said boomer grandmas share obvious slop on Facebook. But they’re unsophisticated, right?

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Lauri Elias
Lauri Elias

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