The amount of rigorous editing and fact-checking and calls and research my program makes me (and the students and profs marking me) have to go through to make sure my article is as objective, and as correct, as possible, makes me sick to see articles like what I'm seeing out there

I've had to scrap entire stories due to finding fundamental errors in my interpretations

or, even more blatant, me not haivng enough evidence to reach the conclusions that I'm reaching through logic

As i history major i am taught to recognized bs from any primary sources, and BOI will future historian will have a field day going over the news feed these past few years

if I can't physically or tangibly prove my article's words, it gets scrapped

what do you mean from primary sources?

Sources from a person who experienced the event

"what the hell happened in the mid-late 2010's? it's like everyone simultaneously starting printing outright lies and people just believed them 🤔 "

gunna be great to look back on with that good ol' 20/20 hindsight

Here's what I think the perspective will be in hindsight

a combination of the old news panicking cause of their slow descent into death from lack of profits
Combined with the fact that crazy ideas catch on faster than ever now

the further in teh past you go the wider the acceptable primary sources is, like most information on the Aksum empire is from a greek 'historian' who may never have even went to the country but since he is the only source we have, you get the idea

Combined with the fact people can now edit out opinoins they don't like

Combined with the fact that the internet is still, in the grand scheme, brand new

will be seen as a perfect storm for reality-twisting orwellian-style news cycles to dominate until someone or something puts down some kind of "internet constitution"

🤔

You can create your own subjective reality with block buttons and confirmation bias

"People this period seem to go out of their way to make things up and then get mad about it rather than fix an actual problem"

and every two-bit hack can print whatever the fuck they want

@missdanger

at this point i think we really do need extranational laws for the internet

if only so that countries will stop trying to cripple it

I dread the day when im teaching history student to cite from goddman twitter

Or how about this, danger

meme history

Good

GOD

how fast does the meme-cycle spin nowadays?

i could be my own primary source

If I take a fucking nap for a day or two off the internet there's some new bullshit meme

i've found my calling in life, i must become a professor of meme history

and I have to dig for an hour to find the source

academia is DEEEEEAAAD

Okay how about this, for an example miss

memba ugandan knuckles?

WELL

oh ugandan knuckles, the flame burn twice as bright last half as long

the chronic hacking didnt help either

like a solid week of history that will be taught in meme history for generations

vrchat was popular for less than 6 months