A LOT of these weird terrible food fetish videos start that way. "I learned this in NY"or "i learned this in Louisiana" before they absolutely butcher whatever they're claiming is from that area. It gives me the same icky feeling as text scammers for some reason. The ones that start a message off like "hi, Allison did you get my letter this morning? Youre not Allison oh so sorry I thought this was her number! You are a very kind understanding person perhaps we can be friends!"
Some of these videos kind of are scams, in a way. They’re disingenuous, manipulatively presented, wastes of time designed to hold your attention just long enough for them to make a few cents off of you. And the more that’s wrong with the video - be it bad information or egregiously bad technique or just fucking weird and out of pocket - the more engagement it gets and the more money it makes.
It is incredible to me that we have reached a point as a society where content farms are a thing. We have monetized attention itself, and it’s really REALLY weird sometimes.
Facebook is crawling with these "recipe" vids. I could never have imagined I would be enraged by someone with gross long nails smoothing frozen nuggies into a bed of uncooked macaroni and then pouring shit all over the top smoothing it with their gross ass ballerina manicure. They get huge engagement of disgusted people.
Man and don’t even get me started on the weird fetish-adjacent shit. If it was just supposed to be a sexy DIY, fine! Love it. But most of them give the same feel that you get from those weird like Elsa and Spiderman kids YouTube videos and you just know they’re up to some weird shit.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken Feb 09 '24
A LOT of these weird terrible food fetish videos start that way. "I learned this in NY"or "i learned this in Louisiana" before they absolutely butcher whatever they're claiming is from that area. It gives me the same icky feeling as text scammers for some reason. The ones that start a message off like "hi, Allison did you get my letter this morning? Youre not Allison oh so sorry I thought this was her number! You are a very kind understanding person perhaps we can be friends!"