i think seeing young people earnestly buy into conspiracies bums me out because i was convinced our generation was gonna be skeptical af
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like… our generation grew up with computers! we have access to infinite, instant fact-checking. you'd think we'd be the best skeptics
i can't go 12 hours without seeing some fully fake shit on tumblr get 30,000 reblogs because the person who typed it put some words in bold
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in closing, everything is fake and we're all dumbasses
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GET MEW FROM PUSHING THE TRUCK BY THE S.S ANNE Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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id argue that a lot of the notes tend 2 come from less "i totes believe this" and more from "holy shit this is a lot of effort they did lol"
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Unfortunately, every generation of people are still drawn to stories with a heavy amount of emotional weight.
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It seems like on tumblr, typing in bold = good writing to them
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They're the same person, Nick.
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The problem is sometime slow if you fact check something obscure Google won't find it and will vomit random web pages.
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You gotta bold the words? I've been italicizing my crackpot theories and haven't been getting any traction.
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i googled it and there's a 2015 vice article about it, so it checks out
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