Blog: Legacy Social Media is Almost Dead #QAnon #GreatAwakening

nikommen (39)in #steemit • 6 years ago (edited)

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Did you feel the shift?

A fierce battle is being waged at the intersection of wealth, power and influence. In recent days Twitter was rocked with a surprise executive shakeup. Facebook has found itself metastasized to a never-ending negative news cycle. And yet another tedious partisan fight rages on with dueling #ReleaseTheMemo narratives. Pedes are slinging memes and QAnon's stoking c-suite anxiety, it almost feels like we've got all the right conditions for a fully-certified cat-5 shit storm!

Twitter has been particularly bad for democracy as of late, choosing to further soil its image by manufacturing McCarthyism propaganda for the government. Project Veritas has exposed Twitter's fetid underbelly for all to see and now even the normies are forced to admit they're getting an eye-full.

It seems it's all going wrong for the quasi-governmental social media companies and personally, I'm loving it. We've got the Russian bot influence narrative rollout, botched in hilarious fashion, which was just another lame attempt in a long line of desperate media coverups.

The legacy social media paradigm is dead. Defunct. Finished. Put it to bed with a shovel. It's only a matter of time until the message of censorship-free social interactions hits the mainstream conscience in a big way. It's clear we're well on our way to that consciousness-shift judging purely by the response that @dannyshine received. His amazing video experiment is proof that all that people need is a friendly nudge.

I've kept a close watch of these developments over the years, and most exciting is the quickening march of a group I like to call the social media exiters. A sizable proportion of users who have either left the gated gardens, or begrudgingly maintain a presence, laying in wait for an acceptable alternative to present itself. In some cases these exiters choose to stay out of necessity to keep in contact with important contacts, friends and family. If you're a part of this group it's important to note that although your heart may not be in it your valuable browsing habits, private DMs and personality profile marketing data certainly is.

If YouTube keeps doing stupid shit like banning a channel with 2 million subscribers from live streaming for eating a dead cockroach four years ago, then I don't think we'll have to wait very long to reach critical mass. At some point the number of exiters will swell to numbers so great that dare I say it'll soon be time for a social revolution?