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submitted 19 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Then I looked at the comments of many of these videos and it became clear that the issue was widespread. Here are comments I saw on the gore videos:

And people fucking commented on them, rather than just closing the app and doing something else with their life?

What is wrong with people? Has Instagram really got people so well trained they will just sit there and watch people dying out of habit?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

not everyone is opposed to seeing gore on their racism app

[–] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's straight up weaponized dopamine loops, it's REALLY hard to stop.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Have my 6376th up vote tonight.