> Something or someone really, really wants you to be comfortable with violence.
Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from mostly hiking and skiing videos to POV videos from Ukrainian and Russian grenade drones and accelerationist "joke" videos normalizing the idea of war with China.
It was like a switch had flipped with how suddenly the app was like "let's warp this guy's sense of normalcy".
Instagram started serving me violent content out of the blue recently. My reels feed went from mostly hiking and skiing videos to POV videos from Ukrainian and Russian grenade drones and accelerationist "joke" videos normalizing the idea of war with China.
It was like a switch had flipped with how suddenly the app was like "let's warp this guy's sense of normalcy".