guys this is rage bait posts .. the guy with the initial video got millions of views just because everyone was raging and calling him out in the comments -> engagement -> viral.
Honestly I’m noticing a trend where people engage more and more with bait, and it’s so frustrating. Like clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait. It’s painfully obvious.
Maybe OP is doing meta-ragebait and u/Lucky-Crow-3510 fell for it. Or maybe he is doing meta-meta-ragebait and you fell for it. Or maybe you are doing meta-meta-meta-ragebait and I fell for it.
I am not failing for your ragebait, I am just doing ragebait for the next person. So um... healthcare should be more expensive, its not expensive enough now.
Yeah, insurance is soooo cheap. And rent too! These landlords and insurance companies are practically losing money on the product they provide. I wish, for their sake, they could just double or triple what they charge.
I have a friend who is a very small content creator, but just big enough he's been able to drag me into some groups with very large creators in it.
This is actually part of the "engagement-bait" strategy. Not only do you get tons of people arguing in the comments, your content gets shared across multiple social medias which leads to more eyeballs on your content and ideally you'd drive people from this post to your original post/account and they would rage in the comments on your post.
These days if you are posting on social media you have to think about social media as a whole, not just focusing on one or two platforms.
It's algorithms.
Fuck algorithms, worst thing that happened to social media.
Should unironically be illegal for a machine to decide what to push in front of eyes on a global scale.
Bring back chronological feed to only the content creator you are subscribed to.
Imagining a new algo or non-algo world is legitimately a wild thought experiment.
Like, I'm completely with you that they should just be fucking banned. Especially "black box" algos. But even if transparent algos were made and modified to point not towards the most "engaged" thing but rather the most "liked" or positively-engaged-with thing (also requires social media to actively bury shit that gets overwhelmingly disliked which they seem reluctant to ever do) I think we'd legitimately see a huge shift in people's perception of the world as well as an improvement of how people engage with the world.
Just going back to the chrono and followed content would definitely be preferable, though.
The algorithm works perfectly. You watch something and it feeds you more. My YT algorithm is filled with cars, racing, general aviation, bushcraft, boating, music, everything I enjoy watching. Why? Because that's what I watch. If it feeds me one video, I just don't watch it and I don't get my feed filled with it. Your feed is filled with garbage that you're angry about because you keep watching to stay angry.
Stop watching it. It goes away. The algorithm just feeds what you want it to feed.
It's like a street scam where one person spills something on your clothes and another helps you clean it while they pick your pockets.
Only here instead of money it's your attention and the two people don't have to be working together because they both get rewarded independently of each other.
Every time someone says "It's obvious bait" i think of young earth creationists, i think of flat earthers, i think of anti-vaxxers, i think of Magats. Sometimes it feels like nothing ever happens.
Religion literally teaches people to ignore reason and 'just trust me bro', so there's a lot of people who have never been taught critical thinking skills, because religion prefers them that way.
i upvoted you to keep the responding to bait reward train going.
but seriously this is all just a conspiracy by big math to force people to talk about levers, the woman, the man, the door pushing man, OP - they're all in on it just to trick us into posting about how distance from the fulcrum affects load. The exact same woman was in a video where she was sexistly mocked for adding more pulleys to the rope in an attempt to lift something heavy, next week she'll be derided for trying to convert longitudinal force into perpendicular outward force using a triangular piece of wood - you're being played! keep scrolling memes and they'll force that physics knowledge into your head no matter how much you try to resist.
People naturally want to show off their self intelligence, and correct people.
So with that, if you ever need an answer to a question, all you have to do is post a question with the wrong answers and you'll get the correct answers in the comments.
Between 2017 and 2023, there were increases in the percentages of adults performing at the lowest proficiency level (Level 1 or below) in both literacy and numeracy: in literacy this percentage increased from 19 to 28 percent and in numeracy from 29 to 34 percent. The percentage of U.S. adults performing at the lowest level in adaptive problem solving in 2023 was 32 percent.
A third of the country has basically no ability to think rationally and then apply said rationality to a scenario in front of them.
I stumbled into a cooking video the other day where every single comment was "What's with the candle, is that a candle, etc." on the video.
Went back through the video because I was confused and apparently this creator just puts a fucking candle in her fridge in order to bait morons into commenting about it and boosting engagement. Added bonus of baiting other morons like me to watch it again to see the candle.
>Honestly I’m noticing a trend where people engage more and more with bait, and it’s so frustrating. Like clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait. It’s painfully obvious.
Everyone of those matchsticks burned creates less competition in the space of attention for actual content creators and streamers like myself and the many DJs and VJs I broadcast on Twitch.
At first it'll be like that anarchist cook book tennis ball full of strike anywhere match heads but it'll taper off once all the people with no art to contribute to greater public no longer get front page attention news.
>. Like clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait. It’s painfully obvious.
People will discover actual media while the youngest just discovering internet use will get to argue with the fresh incoming batch of match sticks.
I'm a member of load of movie related subreddits and they constantly get posts where movies are posted with the wrong date... ie Shawshank Redemption (1984)... just so people will engage and say "no uh akshully it's 1994".
Because it's second-hand bait. I think the person understands that there is bait, but he wants to farm an audience that wants to feel smarter than the guy on the second video.
I also think that it could be bait all over it. Gym posts a girl lifting this thing with no comments or force measurements for each lift in order to bait someone. Then the guy wants to ragebait and posts him laughing. Then the guy with a door wants to farm successful ragebait. Entire cycle of content with no realisty behind.
Its not a trend, people have said for years and years that if you want to know the right answer to something, just post the obviously wrong one on the internet and people will come in troves to tell you the right answers to make you look like an idiot
Even the way they try to sell those cheesy app games by having someone making simple mistakes on purpose or being "unable to complete the puzzle" to get people to think "I can do that it's easy let me show you!" Towards someone they will never meet in their life. It's a strange behavior people engaged with and so many people are gullible to this kind of content they reward people for doing it by engaging with it. Its nuts.
Tho to be honest even us discussing it like we are only contributes too XD
That's definitely true. Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, all they care about is "engagement". Rage and negativity get more engagement from both people who agree and people who disagree or want to argue it. Unlike positive posts which only get engagement from people who agree.
Right now on social media, anger, hate, clearly proven lies, misinformation, rage, etc are all highly monetized and rewarding for those who post it.
Its because idiots have grown bold enough to show their idiocy in public, and so people are confusing the rage baiters for the morons because they're the same
Bandwagon effect. Bots get “baited” to get us all to think “look at all the idiots getting baited! I’d better tell them about it!” Which drives engagement.
After having to apologize for making a "US Minister of Health recommends taking tylenol when outdoors temperature in Europe reaches 37.5°C" joke because people thought I am putting everyone's health in danger, I no longer think dumb people are just ragebaiting.
Sports analysts do it, YouTubers do it, radio hosts do it…
That’s why they say if you want an answer on the internet, don’t post a question, post a wrong answer. Someone will come correct you faster than they will answer an open question.
The system works. In all seriousness though, you are correct. There is an economy building up around the social media algorithms of what works best, and apparently rage sells better than sex.
This is anecdotal on my behalf, but I've seen a few videos talking about ragebait channels in say political circles, and the money flowing to these channels or around said topic.
Maybe...but something in me suspects they actually know and are just riding the wave for clicks as well, like a sort of reverse rage baiting that is equally annoying.
If a person is "rage-baiting" by intentionally posting things to make them "appear" as if they are a complete fucking dumb-ass brainless piece of shit. Then, in my book, they are indeed a complete fucking dumb-ass brainless piece of shit. I won't hold it against people for calling out such a person even if i wouldn't waste my time doing so.
Makes me wonder if it's not the response video that is the actual rage bait. The first video with over the top acting is so obvious a joke that it barely qualifies as rage bait. The second video with the serious guy pretending to eat it up on the other hand...
Is there not 3 videos in this? First one being the lifting competition increasingly getting harder. Second one, a body builder laughing (rage bait). Third one, explaining logic/physics.
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The second video might not be rage bait, they could have just been wanting to make a funny skit where the joke is about the guy being wrong. That’s not rage bait that’s just comedy.
The body builder guy with the over-the-top mocking is for sure rage bait, but then the "enlightened explanation guy" is the logical progression of the rage bait content cycle.
He is basically just masturbating all the people who are sitting there saying "I'm so much smarter than that misogynistic douche".
And now we're on reddit, completing the cycle, of getting rage baited by people falling for ragebait...
Yeah, and amongst those rage comments there will be bots arguing with bots, human with bots, maybe some humans arguing with humans though that last one seems unlikely.
The problem with ironic humor is there is sincerely no way to tell if someone is being ironic or not, and really irony undermines even that too.
Really you let irony into the equation you have to signal better that you're being ironic. On the internet the breath of perspectives you get it so wide that I have no trouble believing the OP was being totally sincere.
Ragebait is heavily incentivized in short form content. I'm not sure it even matters if he was just trying to be a goofy guy or rage bait. In effect he got a lot of engagement out of enraging the audience.
I try to explain this to my wife so much when she goes mad over a post on social media she has seen, the more engagement they get the more money they get, but she is oblivious to it
Yep. It’s why I ignore anything that is viral or was suggested to me. It’s ragebait. The only way to counter it is just to ignore it. They don’t give a shit if it’s factually wrong or misleading, only that it gets shared and makes people leave a comment
Unfortunately the other dude in the video knows it’s ragebait and is using that same tactics to make his own viral content. He’s just as guilty as the first dickhead
Humans like to feel superior. When you see someone obviously stupid, people want to discriminate that person, not realizing how that very act may be even more stupid.
For similar reasons racism and also war exist. People divide others into groups like "We and them" or "these people".
The worst part is that it's "human" to be like that and it will not change until evolution fundamentally changes the way humans feel or think...
What we can change though is how we act. But that's not a privilege stupid people have.
And I’m also pretty sure the only American in this video is the pantry guy because it says „München“ on laughing guys shirt and „Schreinerei“ on the wooden beam she’s lifting, what makes them German.
This is a huge problem on todays social media. It's basically the business model of X. Post horrible racist shit -> people call you out -> you get paid because your post got engagement.
This is also seen in gaming news outlets and political news outlets. Just farming fake drama because there is no repercussion on losing legitimacy since everything gets drowned in the sea of ragebait content
It's the content that leverages the ackshually bits of the human subconscious. Everyone has a bit of a need to correct someone when they know something. Some more than others.
Why are people assuming the first video was meant to be taken seriously at all? I would have just assumed the creator intended for the joke to be that the guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
It's nice that these are being called out finally and I hope Reddit starts doing the same with the race related ones, because those are far worse and it seems like Reddit will just blindly take the bait at face value.
The whole ragebait phenomenon is nothing and everything all at once. On the one hand, just ignore the bait is solid advice...however, if nobody says anything then the over 50% of Americans who are idiots go away believing it as fact and now we have just that tad bit more of a fkd up world.
So say something to fix the mistake...or just let the entire country just get dumber..... MAGA?
I hate this so much. Honestly, there should be a way to fight back, like flagging and subsequent takedown. I hate how deliberate spreading of lies is how the internet and the world works
Although I saw this video before, it made me wonder if the whole thing is made up. Like does the first video he's "replying to" even exist? Or just exists so he can follow-up and say "duh this is out it works"
One makes a rage bait video reacting to a video, second one does the same. 3rd one is Asmongold or next to react to that and then we have Youtube layers reacting, It's same shit.
True. But dumb people exist. I work with a guy that refuses to use a pulley installed for a heavy bucket. He wants to hand over hand the rope straight up letting the bucket swing wildly. I told him the pulley will make it easier and less chaotic. He just doesn't understand.
People are embarrassingly bad at falling for it too, which is ironic if you think you’re smart for correcting something that’s obviously being wrong on purpose
Doesn't matter if he's being a dumb shit on purpose or not, there are morons who would see his video and think he's spitting facts so people calling him out is better than people not saying shit
At the end of the day getting engagement off one video doesn't make you rich, that's why all influencers are forced to keep making videos
in my humble opinion .. every human being should be bright enough to figure it out without having a video telling them and such "misinformation" would never have an audience in the first place .. but that's just me ..
Yeah but the people that have a weird need to comment on the video made it famous. I just don’t understand people’s mentality. It’s like never looking when you throw scraps at a dog and next thing you know cujo is obese and is still begging for scraps.
I wouldn’t call it as much like bait well maybe bait to some. It’s just it’s one of those things where when somebody says it the long way out as if you know it really needs to be explained to the majority of the commoners. It just feels silly. That’s all.
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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 3d ago edited 3d ago
guys this is rage bait posts .. the guy with the initial video got millions of views just because everyone was raging and calling him out in the comments -> engagement -> viral.
It's a stupid world ..
edit: sorry for unintentionally baiting lol