lmao:
"NEW YORK — Do you have an online secret nobody knows about? Nearly half of Gen Zers feel like they’re living a “double life” when it comes to their online and offline personas.
A survey of 2,000 Americans, split evenly by generation, found that 46% of Gen Z respondents feel their personality online vastly differs from how they present themselves in the real world. However, they’re not the only ones hiding a different side of themselves behind a screen. In fact, 27% of respondents across all generations share this feeling, with 38% of millennials, 18% of Gen Xers, and 8% of baby boomers claiming to live “double life” online."
@Snidely_Whiplash oh, it gets better: there's a process I like to call "convergent radicalization" at work, too, and everyone has seen it at work and can think of examples
it is based on the fact that the adversity of being punished lavishly for the merest deviation from Clown World Orthodoxy forces disparate groups into community with each other, leading to cross-pollination
let's say you have an anon who's into a little bit of badthink ("I just think we have too many beaners here"), but because he's unable to legitimately express that idea, he gets lumped in with the "Total Nigger Death crew" (which he wasn't part of to start with) and "Hardcore Holocaust Enthusiasts" (which he previously thought were way off the reservation)
and these people become the only people he can actually talk to
soon, he starts thinking "hey, you know, there really isn't anything good about niggers I can think of, maybe I can start just calling them niggers" (and he does)
and a little after that, after seeing an endless amount of Noticing in his feed, he puts the glasses on and suddenly he goes "HEY WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE IT REALLY IS THE GODDAMNED JEWS"
surprise: you now have a much more radicalized man where you didn't before, and worse, he's been keeping his mouth shut the whole time because he was taught to, and now he's gotten really really good at it, so you're not ever gonna find him
