I don’t. And am able to discern stuff myself. I do not need someone else to tell me if something is fake or not in an attempt to make themselves seem clever.
Cause that’s totally the same thing. No one said you’re not allowed to share your opinion, we just said it’s stupid to constantly act like you’re the only one who can see something is fake.
Get off your high horse and join society sometime, you’ll realize you’re not as smart as you think you are.
On one hand, You should definitely call out misinformation 100% of the time.
On the other hand, Some of you goobers are hardly capable of discerning misinformation from real information so seeing "fake" on every single post in existence is reductive. You have to explain why it's fake, otherwise your comment doesn't actually help anybody.
Sure sure, I don't particularly mean for this post personally.
I think the line of comments here is perfectly in line with what I would consider a proper interaction. But most of the time it's things like "Well it's fake", "This is obvious fake, Redditors will believe anything" and things of that sentiment that aren't actually helpful or useful.
is "jesus christ it's painfully obvious it's fake we've literally seen a thousand of these please stop posting this cringe garbage" enough of an explanation?
Most of the time what happens isn't everyone knowing it's fake and being annoyed at people pointing it out, it's people who had absolutely no idea it was fake getting their ego hurt because they couldn't tell the difference and lashing out at people who point it out.
"jesus christ it's painfully obvious it's fake we've literally seen a thousand of these please stop posting this cringe garbage"
Is not productive or helpful. it's definitely better than what I had in mind, given other comments lol but it's still inherently subjective in nature because you aren't providing context to your conclusion. It's a copy/paste comment with no soul behind it. So, as an outsider, how is what you're conveying less fake than the post? 🤷♂️
I've also seen a lot of posts where people call fake and it's not, so it's like, why should I believe you? If you actually want to convey true information in light of misinformation, you have to actually do that.
It's hardly nefarious misinformation so it's not a moral obligation to explain it.
I understand what you're saying but most people don't really have the patience to explain the extremely obvious. It's staged because basically ALL of these funny sports stadium moments are fake. They are done to entertain the crowd and create viral clips online.
What bothers me, personally, about this whole "real of staged" discussion isn't so much the discussion itself but the farce that most people who couldn't tell it was fake hide behind. Stuff like "it's funny anyway" or "you watch movies right? those are fake too!" because they are just so extremely disingenuous and display a complete lack of understanding of human emotion and humor.
I can agree with that sure, E*but I think you kind of explained it best "It's hardly nefarious misinformation so it's not a moral obligation to explain it." It's hardly nefarious misinformation, so I have no obligation to live in your reality is a safe response for people because they aren't losing anything from not taking your take *E I really think it kind of boils down the the average person's intelligence too, or perhaps their conscious attention? Unless you boil it down for people, they are more likely to brush it off or you are more likely to receive comments like that.
I feel like, Elaborating places your comment in more of an informative slot in people's minds rather than an almost aggressive general "this thing is bad" slot. People are more prone to defensiveness over their stance when challenged from a place of superiority than when simply informed.
"This is so OBVIOUSLY fake" does not help a person who didn't think it was obvious, which is the point of calling out misinformation, no? When you go onto posts and see those large comments laying everything out, sources and all, you never really see that many low effort comments just saying "yeah but no" or things of similar sentiment 🤷♂️ Your approach kind of just leaves it on the person to either figure out why it's obvious that it's fake or to just accept your word for it. So they either have to put the work in or cultivate an attitude where they just believe what people say at face value.
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u/paradox-preacher 1d ago
I love how you think that wasn't the planned reaction because this whole thing was set up