The framing of media influence has been ridiculous nonsense from the start. It was always framed as “Does watching Robocop make little Jerry go murder people immediately afterward? The answer is no.” Which no one was really ever claiming anyway. And now there’s this...sigh.
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Considering how much media is just a person staring point blank at the camera telling the viewers to do stuff, "media doesn't influence people" seems like a very strange and outdated stance to take. Just because its influence over viewers isn't total doesn't mean it doesn't exist
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Literally the whole genre of YouTube video essays is just people talking about ways media has influenced them
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