I'm reading "He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire.
Many people think Greg Chism is a freak — or worse. He says he was just following the incentives of the platform" (NYT gift link).
Read the whole amazing story of a man ruined by YouTube. It's adapted from a new book called "The Castle: Adventures in a World of Unraveling Men" (commission earned). The author is Jon Ronson.
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There is a lot to unpack in that story (I read the entire thing). Mixed bag. Honestly, I don't know what I think yet.
I am considering buying the book.
If you want to briefly capture what's wrong in current-day America, "Lawn Care Influencer" would certainly fit the bill.
People will see me and cry (Fame)
““I was destined to be at one. But in my lifetime, all but one of the factories closed. My father lost his longtime job making car frames and hot-water heaters when the plant moved to Mexico.” Like many men of his generation, Greg was left adrift, with few of the structures that guided his parents and grandparents.”
Trump is trying to bring manufacturing back to the US, but for that effort “he’s a threat to democracy.”
So much schlock...
His content. The nyt article. The Bronson boy milking recycled baby grrl content for a buck. Allegedly educated old grrls like annie lapping it up -- and promoting it! -- in their pensioned leisure...
How far America has fallen in the 21st century. Will we indeed welcome our overlords??
The You Tube algorithm definitely hooked me. In my search for meaning in the universe, I got into particle physics. You Tube kept feeding me videos of how to understand quantum physics. SPOILER ALERT: You can't.......Anyway it's my understanding that observing a particle changes the very nature of that particle. Something like that seems to be going on with You Tube influencers. There was one woman who posted videos about particle physics. She was kind of attractive and, as her videos progressed, she became blonder and more attractive. I think there was more decolletage but that may have been my fevered imagination..........From my research, it seems to me that the cosmos and quantum physics just exists and we are never really going to understand very much about it and that existential dread is more palatable when enunciated by attractive females.
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