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Why it'll only get worse from here.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Truth is stranger than fiction - e.g. how people are now saying that despite how he was a mod of r/jailbait, he also was not at the same time; and yet still yes too. That complexity used to be handled in the golden era of news by people who genuinely cared at getting to the root of a story and telling the (whole) truth - before all the news outlets got bought up and those who continued to do that were fired, while those who pushed "engagement" (likes, shares, whatever) promoted over them, to make their already-billionaire bosses even moar monay.

Anyway, it's possible that he is both a greedy monster, and being heavily pushed by those above him - who in fact hired him b/c he shares their values, in order to do exactly that. You were peeling back the onion one layer - yes it's more the system than Huffman b/c if he weren't there then someone else much like him would have been - but it's also him at the same time, as in they pushed but he's the one deciding how to get it done, and doing those AMAs saying exactly what he said, that's his choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, absolutely please do not interpret my comment as a defense of Steve Huffman haha, moreso a criticism of the structure of incentives he chooses operate within.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can relax now, we aren't on Reddit - you are among friendly people here:-). Everything is going to be different now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😂 Wow I'm really learning how up my guard has been all these years.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It has messed with us all... whether we realized it or not:-(.