• lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Do they take into account the ads that are run on those sites?

    I mean, everybody talks about how YT is killing everyone but I don’t get it. Unless… There was one day I sat down for breakfast, feeling great and started to play a light hearted review of a movie from Red Letter Media, about to eat a spoon full of Cheerios when an ad snuck past my ad blocker. It started off with “Cancer is different when it happens to a child.” I immediately closed my browser and sat there in stunned silence for five minutes with my chin on my lap. That ad just shat all over my day before it even began. When I got back to watching RLM, I was still thinking about kids with cancer for five minutes while Mike and Jay made jokes.

    If people are bombarded by that kind of bipolar stream of videos while watching YT, I can see how it can ruin your life.

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      4 hours ago

      In the past when you were bullied it usually was contained to school. Now with social media, it continues in the safety of your home as well.

    • yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      No, this specifically is about how seeing content in which teens explain how to kill yourself has an impact on the probability that you try to kill yourself.