What the FUCK, guys. This channel is *literally* one bright-and-colorful thumbnail click away from your children. Let me make clear: ONLY CHILDREN WATCH THIS. THIS SINGLE EXAMPLE IS ONLY ONE OF A FORMULAIC NORM. I am trying to express MORAL OUTRAGE!
What's worse is that this is only one symptom of a far more fundamental plague. But that's not the focus here. The focus right now is Troom Troom.
I̶f̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶s̶e̶a̶r̶c̶h̶ ̶"̶u̶ ̶t̶o̶o̶b̶"̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶c̶l̶i̶c̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶i̶r̶s̶t̶ ̶l̶i̶n̶k̶,̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶f̶i̶n̶d̶ ̶.̶ ̶
If you tap the big red button, you may be shown an array of colorful portals, one of which will very often have been conjured by Troom Troom. I am going to very meaningfully quote Mr. Rogers, here. “You were a child once too.” Take a moment to place yourself back in that frame of mind, where literally the entire world is unknown. Truly, truly remember. That is the key to understanding.
Troom Troom videos are targeted at young (6m-4y) children.
They:
- Use flashy colors and archetypes of reality in their thumbnails and content. This is done to signal importance to the most basic fundamental emotional and meaning-seeking parts of our brains (See Peterson source for context).
- Very intentionally mimic the four-colored icon of Google, an entity of immense importance, if not a divine source of truth. This is done to confuse Troom Troom with truth.
- Despite their false imitation of archetypes, there is exactly zero meaning of any kind. This is on purpose. They are smart. Following the cues of grandma-targeting phone scammers, they design their content such that it is only appealing to its target audience: those that are most vulnerable. But unlike phone scammers, using this technique, they effectively game the youtube Algorithm into distributing only towards that audience. This is because the Algorithm is designed to drive "engagement", and the machine-learning algorithms used to optimize for engagement are unable to distinguish "watching because emotionally engaged in meaningful content" from "whatever the fuck Troom Troom is".
This is the literal opposite of beauty, in the most meaningful way possible. They wield every psychological trick and failing of man, against the newest members of the world, in a way that actively and purposefully seeks to establish exploitable reliance, by imitating a source of truth, caring not for the psychological torment they lay waste, but instead to the $0.001/view they steal from an apathatic system. This is your children, as slaves, today.
As of this writing, the figure faces me as expressionless and precise as can be found of any algorithm, blind to the destruction of our children. "Stats". "Joined Sep 12, 2015". "7,958,744,245 views". (Troom, 2020)
Formatted in scientific-outrage-notation, that is about 7.9 ✕ 10^10 minutes, or the collective psychological damage equivalent of about seven tenths of one 9/11 twin towers collapse (0.7 TTC). This is *not* a fringe phenomenon. This is mainstream. If you go to youtube.com on a browser that pretends not to know who you are (incognito), this is regularly a result to be found on the very first page you see, and ranked near the top of innumerable simple search phrases (e.g. "vampires").
Children are faced with a world that is more fake and mind-twisting than I can even express. They are raised from birth with unbelievably alien and unnatural forces of malice positioned against them. Nobody, NOBODY, will look back on the years they spent watching Troom Troom and think "wow, the good old days, the golden years of youtube".
I, to my dying BREATH, dedicate myself to taking meaningful action towards destroying Troom Troom and all who would follow, by outrageously demanding and forcefully building systemic solutions which would render their existence impossible. I will show children that the world is a beautiful and meaningful place to exist. I call to all who would follow me to take up arms and prepare for war. The collective forces of all the world's systems will not prevail against Man and Woman and their Voices.
- Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
- Thou shalt not disfigure the soul.
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Sources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN2lyN7rM4E <= Peterson lecture