• zephyreksOP
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    1 year ago

    Everyone wants to be a social media influencer, I guess. This is really a reflection of where the money is going tbh.

    • Mars
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      1 year ago

      Personally I wouldn’t be too dismissive upfront. Relevant part of the article:

      But the more charitable — and, Shariff believes, more accurate — view could be related to the bystander effect.

      The well-studied theory posits that people are less likely to offer help if there are many other people around. It could be because they think other people are better-positioned to help, or because they do not know what to do in an unfamiliar situation and look to others for cues to the acceptable social response.

      Compare a car crash today vs in the years before everyone had a globally-connected computer with an attached high-definition camera in their pocket. Back then horrific car crashes still happened, and what did the majority of bystanders also do back then? Just stood and watched.