It took practically no effort for "n-word girl" to get famous while there are countless thousands of people out there who have expended thousands of hours and their blood, sweat, and tears to develop their talents who will only be recognized posthumously. That's what's truly depressing about this.
The right needs to stop promoting people who are just rude and tries to offend as many people as possible. Nothing attractive or good about trying to be edgy and vicious just for the sake of it
True all you have to be is the worst possible example of a sex worker (if you’re hot) or the worst possible example of pathetic (if you’re not hot). It’s truly pathetic.
@@theJellyjoker You're like Blade--the vampire who hunts vampires, or Dexter--the psychopath who hunts psychopaths. They should make a movie about you.
The trolls tend to feed themselves,unfortunately. All they need is a camera and they will find a negative or even positive audience(which is what that idiot Lilly was looking for). Trolling like that isn't something to feed into and let it ruin your life. But it shouldn't be offhandedly dismissed,especially if the trolls want to use their gross b.s. to network and make money. It has no place being monetized and should be de-platformed,too.
I think the real risk of rage baiting and being online too much in general is not anger, but numbness. We get numb and desensitized, no longer believing anyone or in anything.
Lol, my initial reaction was: "I'm Australian" - we know, sweetheart. The name kinda gives it away. From what I understand it's quite popular in Australia. In fact, I believe they name entire cities "Sydney" over there.
Until there is a negative consequence for negative engagement (like an angry reaction actually counting AGAINST the creator), in the algorithm, it will continue to be this way.
Being angry and frustrated with the internet is why I've had to just completely delete my Reddit profile and stop using it for good. When I was starting to relapse back into self harm because of complete strangers, I just couldn't take it anymore. I don't often process rage bait or online bullying in a very healthy way and I've been feeling a lot better ever since I've been trying to distance myself from all of it.
Congrats on making one of the best decisions you've ever made mate! I got rid of my Facebook a while back and it made a world of difference to my mental well-being! God bless
A great decision! Work on yourself and your own life. Do things you enjoy, and ignore the validation of others. Videos like this prove that people just love to see suffering. I hope everything is great from here! Congrats again, and good luck, man. 😁
@@SydneyWatson I get it. It's like my Irish family taking the piss out of my Mum, for losing her thick Derry accent. But it's right there when you're with them again. It's like some kind of magic 😂
The biggest issue of ragebait is that is puts & keep people in a prolonged angry state, even after closing the apps. This leads to a more disgruntled, angrier society, shorter fuses, less delayed gratification. Ragebait essentially pulls you down to your lizard brain, and hinders a higher level, more rational / balanced approach to things.
It's a repeating cycle. In a larger scale it leads to war, and then after war there's a cooldown period as everyone (who survived) collectively respects how absolutely horrific war is, and do their best to not get to that point. We're actually living in the most peaceful time in all of humanity's history, so it's only natural that our global power keg is heating up again. -- But for fun (kind of) if you want to use America as an example. Look at America's war history. Basically every 15-20 years we were in some major conflict that involved blood. The Revolutionary in 1775, a bunch of Native American wars. The War of 1812. More Native American wars. The American-Mexican war in 1946. The American Civil War in 1865. More Indian wars. And as we reach up to the 1900s, you better believe we had even more wars! The Great War. World War 2. Korean War, Viet Nam. And then everything just kinda chilled out for a bit with America. The draft ended, and the Middle-eastern stuff was something a lot of Americans could just blink and pretend didn't exist. People have forgotten what war is like.And when people forget, they don't hold back. Look back at that list I posted again. I only touched the highlights. And basically anyone born after Viet Nam got to live a pretty cushy life of never knowing what war was. And a lot of the younger generation doesn't even have family that served! The era of "my grandfather served in World War 2, and my Father served in Viet Nam" is ending. No war stories lead to people forgetting.
I'm not sure what's more numbing: the fact that rage baits are a pyramid scheme that works seemingly every time, or the war on words (changing meaning of words for arbitrary and superficial self gain) becoming increasingly prominent?
They're real in the sense that what you see and hear happened at one point and got recorded. But "real" things can be dishonestly framed, and real people can be dishonest in general.
@@mikeexits However that's not even completely true either. We saw countless examples in the video that were completely fabricated and never happened. It goes beyond framing often.
It started with the neo-conservatives in the 1960s, they just wanted to generate fear in everyone, fear is just another form of anger. So, now we just go straight to generating anger from the get go for clicks, agenda and money. lol
I once worked for a news network as an intern and had the lead editor berate me for an edit pack I had made and told me to rearrange it because "if it bleeds, it leads". Negative emotions give more engagement than positive almost all the time.
That's only because news media started placing sensationalism above presentation of facts. Anything controversial to sell more subs over presenting any useful information that teaches any useful skills. And that was BEFORE they only became political mouthpieces.
"Drama" is so exhausting. We all deal with so much of it in our day to day lives as is. I don't understand why people spend their free time seeking out more drama...especially fake drama.
While it's frustrating for sure, this is hardly unique to the internet. Tabloids and 24 hour news channels were using rage and shock for decades before the Internet came along.
Years ago, there was The Jerry Springer Show. I was appalled by the content, but I learned that the participants were scouted and hired to be shockingly controversial. It was the tv version of the social media that you describe and it was wildly popular. 100 years ago, every carnival had its freak show where they recruited people with physical deformities for people would pay to look at these “freaks.” I think it’s something almost genetic in some of the human species that find pleasure in observing and commenting on people/situations that are abnormal. It makes them feel superior in a perverse sort of way. It’s not going away; it’s hard-wired into our schema.
My childhood best friend was scouted to be on the Jerry Springer show. They paid her $200 and paid for her flight and hotel. Her ex used the recording of that show in their custody case a few years later😮It didn't go well for her!
If I had a time machine, I would go back to that era and put myself in a time loop, sending me right back to January 1, 1980 as soon as December 31, 1999 passes.
I had an ex-girlfriend who did not like me going to visit my family several nights a week. I remember her exclaiming "You see your family too much!" I told her I never wanted to look back and think, "I wish I had seen them more." Perhaps some middle ground could have been reached in that matter, but it was just a part of the whole picture.
@@Insipid_Xerxes Precisely. My dad died of cancer over 10 years ago and I still feel regret for not seeing him enough when he was in hospital, when he came home in his final days I saw him more and I feel that made up for it. I guess I was naive , in that I underestimated (due to my Autism) the severity of his illness - due in large part because he was such a fighter and he always would say to me "there is no such word as can't" and "nothing is impossible". But my mum said to me, John don't feel regret for that, he understood it was hard for you to travel from one side of London to the other and you were with him in his final days and that's all that matters. I'd got in to debt before he got ill and he was angry, but on his bedside he told my mum out of all his children he felt he was the most proud of me in what I had accomplished and how far I had come. That means a heck of a lot to me.
I'm so tired of everything and everyone being angry all the time. Everyone is seriously trying to create a war of some kind. Gender war. Race war. Political war. Something.
Social Media ain't social. Between the Ad's, the echo chambers, the Ad's, the Angry Narcissist's, The Ad's, the stupidity and bullshittery, The Ad's, there is bugger all left. Once upon a time you had to actually ring someone every now and then to keep in contact, and you listened to how they were, and what they were doing. Now you pretend to do that by scrolling through a huge pile of Ad's and bullshit and you have no idea how your loved ones are, but you think you've "Kept in Contact"... Most people have hundreds of "Friends" they don't give a shit about, while having never spoken to those few they do care about for months if not years because "Ohh, I seen that post from Cathy a week ago about the kids birthday, I put an Emoji under it"...
So true, my friends contact me less each year. And since some do not share the platform I share, I can't help but wonder if they would even notice if I die...
Someone who only watches a few rage bait videos will almost certainly be fed more via the algorithm. To the point where they see so many, they become angry and disallusioned with everyone. This is especially the case with relationship content. Happy birthday Sydney! Wishing you all the best!
Apparently people have forgotten the old internet adage, “Don’t feed the trolls.” Also, this wholesale focus on garnering attention through rage is exactly how news outlets function, official or otherwise.
I listened to radio station animator that were using anger since the 80's. There is not always something interesting in the news so an animator was insulting the sport commentator that was raging. Suddenly you had a show where there was nothing
I have probably fallen for rage bait at times. When I see myself getting too angry it's at least possible that something was manipulated to make me unrealistically mad. That's when I either spend some time to investigate or just drop it and move on. I see no reason to raise my blood pressure for someone's clicks
Yeah, me too. I started using Reddit a year ago. Of course, I knew that everything I read might not be true. However, I made the stupid mistake of posting in AITA. Then a lot of people accused me of being a rage baiter. Who knows what’s real and what’s not. 😂
@@savashseanadams2975 If you'd have watched the video you would have heard that Sidney asked us to comment about our personal experiences with rage baiting and how we handle it, which is exactly what I did. Now go troll elsewhere
Well, Happy Birthday Sydney. You don't look a day over 25. Keep up the good work with the Tea Co. so you can also keep us informed without too many sponsors if any being needed.
@@SydneyWatson I know you probably enjoy expressing your views in addition to the potential monetary opportunities, but if your tea company became lucrative enough would you still make TH-cam videos?
I've noticed recently that TH-cam has changed their algorithm to push channels that kick out lots of content, and as such most suggestions anymore are just freaking click bait.
There's plenty of real problems in our world to be angry about without making shit up. Environmental issues, private equity owning everything, government corruption, homelessness, mental health etc. Hundreds more real issues.
Being able to take time to spend with family is great! Just spent the weekend with my daughter and granddaughter! I don't give my time (or emotions) to people being stupid or mean. I will like and comment on content that makes me feel happy or teaches me something. Love hearing your take on all these subjects.
Sydney, no worries about making breaks. Your content is rich, involving a lot of research, and quality is always preferable to frequency, if those are in conflict. You're always interesting to listen to.
We appreciate you trying to upload regularly. But we understand that you and many other people have a busy life. Keep up the good work. Much love from Canada.
An increasing number of news media and academia is using social media as part of their "discovery/research process", so no matter where you look for info in current day, at least SOME of it is coming from social media, even more so from researchers using TH-cam or newspaper videos, who use social media as their info sources for the videos.
That's why so many are relieved that TikTrash's day are numbered and this nonsense can come to an end. Not entirely, but it will be far less pronounced.
Sounds like gossip magazines -- which everyone knew were crap, and that was over 50yrs ago. Guess the more things change .... the more they stay the same.
I have an Instagram account for my business. I'm not sure if it's worth it or not, but I post stuff about my business and about topics directly related to it. Nothing else. ...which might be why my engagement is low. However, I'm not willing to change that.
23:50 You're so right, Sydney. It was terrible that this woman got hit with a barrage of negative comments accusing her of being a terrible parent when they should have listened long enough to see that it was this woman generalizing men as being terrible parents. She was such an innocent victim!
Thank you. I know that sometimes , i do get carried away in watching these types of videos that just call for your primal feelings. Watching you expose them like this just made me realize, that this is a business, and these type of videos are made with this in mind.... to make money, to have views. But it is hard to get away isn't....
In regards to hate baiting, I avoid it as much as I can. Occasionally I get fooled, but generally, if it vibes that way, I scroll on by. Absolutely NO tolerance for that BS. Great topic, thank you!
The worst part for me is people apparently getting pissed and engaging over stuff that's just very cringe, like the girl being asked to leave because "she's too pretty". I feel no anger, just intense second hand embarrassment.
From what I've read Tiktok actually doesn't pay .50 per 1000 views, but .02-.04 per 1000 views. If that's true, these people are going through soooo much trouble for pennies, really. Most don't get 40M views, but even if they do, it's just 800-1600. That's really not a lot of money. So they grind and grind more. Pretty sad.
I remember when I was a kid I was told to treat everyone the same. But the older I get the more it seems as if we've regressed back to segregation, the way we look and talk dictates what you're allowed to say and where you're allowed to go.
I recently learned on 23 and me that all of my DNA, despite family rumors, comes from a thousand mile circle in the North Atlantic and Europe. Which I guess makes me an evil colonizer.
That’s cool. In my opinion these people are superior to any other… lol just be warned.. the establishment wants us dead.. so ah.. yeah, you may want to kinda arm up and prepare for some planned chaos if you live in Europe or North America.. good luck.
@@cloclo5290 @cloclo5290 yes, they are. Family rumor had us related to famous Cherokee and Klickitat on one side and Cohen on the other side. But no. All of my DNA is UK, France, Germany, Faroe Islands and Slav. That last is far enough away that I guess at some point, some German slept with his White Slavic Slave....
As an editor I can one million percent agree with the fact that people like me have the power and skillset to twist a narrative. A great example of this is dating shows. It’s all multiple takes to get an extremely specific reaction. A good example of this recently would be (I will probably be stoned for this) the Hillary v Crowder situation with the leaked ring camera footage. I saw both Candace Owens version and another one (can’t remember who). Both of those videos had two different subtitle outcomes which changes the context of the video, and now you can’t find it. The thing is, you either trust or don’t trust what you see, because manipulation of the truth is everywhere.
I go back to the days of CompuServe and 1200 baud modems. Bulletin Boards were the rage and no one made money by being provocative or mean spirited. People did that out of a sense of malevolence and attention wh*ring. Now there is an incentive to be bad, stupid etc etc. I don't know if we can put the genie back in the bottle with this, the incentives are too great. imagine being 20 years old and making $20K a month. Don't know how to stop that or reduce its occurrence. Thank you Dr Watson for your disciplined rage.
As someone who’s a veteran of the internet flame wars of the mid to late nineties, I understand all too well how rage bait content works. It even caused me to fall off the internet for a few years. It’s led to the emergence of cyber bullying and other forms of online harassment. Nowadays, I’ve grown some thick skin, and don’t fall for the kind of rage bait content that crosses my social media feeds. I do, however, occasionally have to remind the trolls that I’m not easily manipulated by their attempts to get a rise out of me.😅 There’s something to be said about having a step father who taught me old school ways to handle bullying.🎉 Maybe if people would stop being so easily offended and manipulated by people such as Lily, they wouldn’t be able to use it to catapult themselves into internet stardom. Much love, Sydney, keep up the good work!❤
What you call cyberbullying and online harassment, is just common bullying and harassment, which came to digital channels the more political the Internet got. The more people came online, the more obnoxious and toxic it became. And then, trolling and extreme behaviors got monetized, and the wheels came off completely.
Got my tea ordered! My daughter and I love it and can't wait till you get some mint flavors. I've shared some with a few people at our church and they like it as well.
For people making dozens of videos a week (and still have a job), I'm sure money isn't an issue. Which explain why their "hacks" are usually just trolling other people, and genuine cooks can easily debunk them. Speaking of which, the "debunking" cottage industry on TH-cam and their questionable "exposes" might be an interesting future topic.
Well done. Always knew something went wrong with social media today including that bloody TikTok. Mind you I never have a TikTok at all. I used to have Facebook and Instagram but deleted them due to rage baiting bs and other bs stuff. Good job Sydney and blessings to ya :)
The solution to this is working on self control and emotional management. The people who are mad all the time only have themselves to blame. If not rage bait they’d be mad about something else.
The same people who attacked their neighbours during the Salem witch trials, later turned their natural anger outward as abolitionists against the South.
Sydney, you never make us angry. You stand with us in the righteous fight against the baying horde who champion everything that is debasing to the dignity of humankind. That my friend is a worthy cause. And in the end, we will win.
Happy Birthday, Sydney! You still sound Australian, it's perfectky understandable your Mum would be a priority, and as a native Texan, im sorry about the heat. Itll cool off somtime around Christmas. 😎
I liked you so much since the first video of you that I watched and now with the comment about loving your parents I like you even more. Your heart is in the right place. Greetings from Mexico 😊
Hardly a "bias". Anything negative to the personal self, is essentially a threat, and a survival instinct from many millennia ago, so it's a survival strategy, not a "bias".
"It can be as simple as mispronouncing words on purpose, knowing it's going to enrage people." I don't even need social media for that. Thanks a lot, Dad.
I think we need a good phrase for this. Like "Don't feed the trolls." It doesn't always work, but I've seen it arrest a troll flaming or two. We need something catchy like that. "Don't get fished"?
When Donald Trump was beginning to loom large, it wasn't my fight (am Canadian) but I advised those concerned not to feed the troll. But they loved feeling offended and wronged. They effectively elected Trump their overlord prime before he'd passed the primaries.
I get it. Life is much bigger than TH-cam and the best we can do as your audience is support you regardless of your ups and downs. You're your own boss here and I'm just showing up for the chaos whenever it happens. I personally love Zen design. Wood themes, round shelves, that kind of thing. Lantern string lights are always an improvement. Plants like palms, monstera and bamboo are beautiful in backgrounds as well. Tans and greens, warm lighting
I don't have a TikTok account, and I rarely go to Twitter (I agree with your comment on the name change). I did see some rage bait stuff posted on TH-cam, and at first I participated, but I've grown tired of it once I realized what was going on.
Same in Turkey. Definitely escalated greatly after Elon Musk started paying people for "interaction". Who'd wanna work a shitty job when u can be a professional troll and take dumb people's time & money?
Twitter doesn't pay much and it was designed to be how it is from the beginning. Seriously, welcome to the internet. This has been a thing since it went live in the late 90s. It's just normies, like you, weren't on it. The best advice I can give is the same we gave the odd one that would wander in. Stay off it.
The good thing about rage content is I saw Sydney on Vice. It was an all women (?) panel and I loved the way she handled herself. And now I’m hooked on her content.
Your point is 100% valid. I'm an explorer. I bust my butt and risk my life multiple times a week to find historical ruins, explore abandoned mines and chart caves. My views are garbage. As soon as I do or say something even mildly controversial, my views go through the roof. It's an indictment of our society OR maybe my stuff is just not that good. I'm biased, but I think it's the former. I'll never lean into it, though. I'd rather be human and keep my dignity than "go viral" for acting like an idiot. Stand by who you are. No matter what.
I personally hate rage content. As in, I refuse to watch it at all. Reality tv, tick tock, whatever. I don't care what it is. I won't watch it. I don't understand why people would want to watch things that make them angry.
Thank you! I am so happy that you bring this up. You are one of the only political channels I didn't unsubscribe to recently after I found out a lot of them do not consider me to be Christian for having a Pope.
They don't know you. They're not your friend. So you don't watch movies? Because I guarantee you a lot of the people involved don't share your religion and it's all entertainment or just informative.
Sidney I look forward to your videos & am happy that you took time to enjoy your family. They’ll not always be there so take every chance you can to see them. My dad passed several years ago & my mom is 93 so I cherish my time with her. I love ❤️ what you do & say & your videos are awesome & I love you my dear sweet lady.
My parents are dead, so let me make it clear to Sydney - "Families come first. Creating memories with those families comes first". Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
It took practically no effort for "n-word girl" to get famous while there are countless thousands of people out there who have expended thousands of hours and their blood, sweat, and tears to develop their talents who will only be recognized posthumously. That's what's truly depressing about this.
The right needs to stop promoting people who are just rude and tries to offend as many people as possible. Nothing attractive or good about trying to be edgy and vicious just for the sake of it
@@anacc3257The Left has been doing that since the 70s.
Yep, that's an unfortunate aspect of life, intelligence, talent and effort do not directly correlate to success.
True all you have to be is the worst possible example of a sex worker (if you’re hot) or the worst possible example of pathetic (if you’re not hot). It’s truly pathetic.
@@anacc3257nah the right is just playing catch up with the left, who’s been at it since the 50’s and 60’s.
Letting your emotions control everything you do will only lead to ruin.
Not 100% correct. Depending on the situation avoiding feelings is just stupid. Feelings actually make you fight for something until you accomplish it.
@@trueinsider513 Modifying key word is "everything."
That is almost all women and simps. Hahaha...
OH, that handle and comment isn't baity in any way at all is it 😂😂
@@Skitdora2010 Bingo. Everything in life is about moderation.
Everyone forgot the Golden rule of the internet: DON’T FEED THE TROLLS.
Yup that's what I'm saying, people need to be more aware of this, and I feel over time more people will adapt to it, like environmental evolution
I love to troll trolls because nothing brings me more epic lulz than a troll falling for a troll because no one trolls a troll better than a troll.
@@theJellyjoker You're like Blade--the vampire who hunts vampires, or Dexter--the psychopath who hunts psychopaths. They should make a movie about you.
The trolls tend to feed themselves,unfortunately. All they need is a camera and they will find a negative or even positive audience(which is what that idiot Lilly was looking for). Trolling like that isn't something to feed into and let it ruin your life. But it shouldn't be offhandedly dismissed,especially if the trolls want to use their gross b.s. to network and make money. It has no place being monetized and should be de-platformed,too.
@@megauxvasse6797she’s not an idiot. She’s smart. The idiots are the people that fell for her bait.
I think the real risk of rage baiting and being online too much in general is not anger, but numbness.
We get numb and desensitized, no longer believing anyone or in anything.
So the reason I’m not rich is because I would never even think of profiting from this kind of evil behavior.
I think profiting from stupid people is not that "evil"
Sydney - 'Im australian, Altough I don't sound like it'
Also Sydney - says 'jupida' and 'cultjua'
Lol.. yeah. I find it adorable really. I am an odd ball demographic for Sydney I imagine.. she is kinda just cute though.
Lol, my initial reaction was: "I'm Australian" - we know, sweetheart. The name kinda gives it away. From what I understand it's quite popular in Australia. In fact, I believe they name entire cities "Sydney" over there.
@@kevinlawler3252 she is very cute 😂🙌
I thought she was Austrian.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees My American niece is named Sydney. ...but I will admit that her mother spent two years in Australia.
Paint your wall green, put up a couple of medieval wall sconces, and greenscreen yourself into a medieval tavern/inn.
With the bust-enhancing bar wench white blouse...please.
YES!!!
I, too, would like to see this at least once.
Done.
This sounds brilliant!!😁
Hollywood has the axiom, "Any publicity is good publicity" so it was just a matter of time before it became a social media philosophy.
If something is good then bad publicity can help them.
If something is bad then no publicity will help it.
Law 6: Court Attention at All Cost
Until there is a negative consequence for negative engagement (like an angry reaction actually counting AGAINST the creator), in the algorithm, it will continue to be this way.
So true. People don't ever talk about what needs to be done with anything. They only talk about who to be angry with, and how angry to be.
Being angry and frustrated with the internet is why I've had to just completely delete my Reddit profile and stop using it for good. When I was starting to relapse back into self harm because of complete strangers, I just couldn't take it anymore.
I don't often process rage bait or online bullying in a very healthy way and I've been feeling a lot better ever since I've been trying to distance myself from all of it.
Congrats on making one of the best decisions you've ever made mate! I got rid of my Facebook a while back and it made a world of difference to my mental well-being! God bless
A great decision! Work on yourself and your own life. Do things you enjoy, and ignore the validation of others. Videos like this prove that people just love to see suffering.
I hope everything is great from here! Congrats again, and good luck, man. 😁
Reddit is a whirlpool of a hell hole lake.
Congrats Dude
@@SirSamsenOn what? Not being able to use a website?
*sounding completely Aussie*
"I know I don't sound Australian..."
Me, a British:
"Bollocks"
I'll take it. The concept of losing my accent makes me so sad.
@@SydneyWatsonyou haven’t lost your accent. 😊 It’s not thick or distracting or anything, but distinctively Aussie.
It's still an Aussie accent, it's just not stereotypical. I dated a Southern girl who didn't have a cliche GRITS drawl.
@@SydneyWatson I get it. It's like my Irish family taking the piss out of my Mum, for losing her thick Derry accent.
But it's right there when you're with them again. It's like some kind of magic 😂
Her accent is very mild. It is noticable but nowhere near the same as people who have never left Australia.
The biggest issue of ragebait is that is puts & keep people in a prolonged angry state, even after closing the apps.
This leads to a more disgruntled, angrier society, shorter fuses, less delayed gratification.
Ragebait essentially pulls you down to your lizard brain, and hinders a higher level, more rational / balanced approach to things.
yes! Completely unhealthy!
It's a repeating cycle. In a larger scale it leads to war, and then after war there's a cooldown period as everyone (who survived) collectively respects how absolutely horrific war is, and do their best to not get to that point.
We're actually living in the most peaceful time in all of humanity's history, so it's only natural that our global power keg is heating up again.
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But for fun (kind of) if you want to use America as an example. Look at America's war history. Basically every 15-20 years we were in some major conflict that involved blood.
The Revolutionary in 1775, a bunch of Native American wars. The War of 1812. More Native American wars. The American-Mexican war in 1946. The American Civil War in 1865. More Indian wars. And as we reach up to the 1900s, you better believe we had even more wars! The Great War. World War 2. Korean War, Viet Nam.
And then everything just kinda chilled out for a bit with America. The draft ended, and the Middle-eastern stuff was something a lot of Americans could just blink and pretend didn't exist.
People have forgotten what war is like.And when people forget, they don't hold back. Look back at that list I posted again. I only touched the highlights. And basically anyone born after Viet Nam got to live a pretty cushy life of never knowing what war was. And a lot of the younger generation doesn't even have family that served!
The era of "my grandfather served in World War 2, and my Father served in Viet Nam" is ending. No war stories lead to people forgetting.
Yup, the amount of people offended for stupidest reasons nowadays is overwhelming.
I'm not sure what's more numbing: the fact that rage baits are a pyramid scheme that works seemingly every time, or the war on words (changing meaning of words for arbitrary and superficial self gain) becoming increasingly prominent?
Right? Ick to the max.
I had a long ahrd think about this comment and realised that yes, it is a pyramid scheme
“War on Words” is ragebait lol. And yet you use it in the same sentence complaining about ragebait with a complete lack of self-awareness.
@@PityOnlyFools with a username and comment like that is only proving my point. Thanks for that!
Unfortunately a part of the war on words is because of restrictions of speech(can't always use the c word) in social media.
Thinking that these types of videos are real is like thinking reality TV is reality and not scripted.
The mgtowers are so brainwashed they eat everything they get served. They got a group mentality only feminists can be jelly of 😂
Well at some point in the past, lots of ppl thought wrestling dramas were real... 😅
They're real in the sense that what you see and hear happened at one point and got recorded. But "real" things can be dishonestly framed, and real people can be dishonest in general.
@@mikeexits However that's not even completely true either. We saw countless examples in the video that were completely fabricated and never happened. It goes beyond framing often.
Peoples lives have become so boring, so mundane that they get angry about anything, just to feel something.
I'm one of the ancient ones of the internet that knows not to feed the trolls. So I leave them under their bridge of despair.
Good idea. I never responded to a fool.
It started with 'reality' television.
Then social media made it even worse.
@@Ntmoffi Social media made people go "oh, I can have my own reality show where I'm the main star!!"
No. It started with wrestling.
It started with the neo-conservatives in the 1960s, they just wanted to generate fear in everyone, fear is just another form of anger. So, now we just go straight to generating anger from the get go for clicks, agenda and money. lol
@@misterl0gic
Minstrel shows?
They where quite out there, as well.
I once worked for a news network as an intern and had the lead editor berate me for an edit pack I had made and told me to rearrange it because "if it bleeds, it leads". Negative emotions give more engagement than positive almost all the time.
That's only because news media started placing sensationalism above presentation of facts. Anything controversial to sell more subs over presenting any useful information that teaches any useful skills. And that was BEFORE they only became political mouthpieces.
"Drama" is so exhausting. We all deal with so much of it in our day to day lives as is. I don't understand why people spend their free time seeking out more drama...especially fake drama.
It's a catharsis thing. It superficially makes you feel better about your dramatic life because "at least my life isn't like THAT."
@@janeenschultz8502Yep. This also explains why there is usually a “scapegoat” in every family.
While it's frustrating for sure, this is hardly unique to the internet. Tabloids and 24 hour news channels were using rage and shock for decades before the Internet came along.
Years ago, there was The Jerry Springer Show. I was appalled by the content, but I learned that the participants were scouted and hired to be shockingly controversial. It was the tv version of the social media that you describe and it was wildly popular. 100 years ago, every carnival had its freak show where they recruited people with physical deformities for people would pay to look at these “freaks.” I think it’s something almost genetic in some of the human species that find pleasure in observing and commenting on people/situations that are abnormal. It makes them feel superior in a perverse sort of way. It’s not going away; it’s hard-wired into our schema.
I loved the Jerry Springer Show. It was hilarious! 😅
I think it ties into why people have a hard time not looking at a train wreck and its carnage. I'm not sure of the psychology, though.
All the red pill "dating podcasts" are the modern equivalent.
Yeah that is true
My childhood best friend was scouted to be on the Jerry Springer show. They paid her $200 and paid for her flight and hotel. Her ex used the recording of that show in their custody case a few years later😮It didn't go well for her!
I remember growing up in the 80s and 90s with fond memories because there was no social media or influencers. It was glorious.
I miss that world deeply!
Same! 80s 90s kid here too
Born in 1982! I miss the 90s sooo much 🙃
If I had a time machine, I would go back to that era and put myself in a time loop, sending me right back to January 1, 1980 as soon as December 31, 1999 passes.
yes! the internet and mobile phones did not exist yet! it was heaven.
Never apologise for not being around. Family should always take precedence.
I had an ex-girlfriend who did not like me going to visit my family several nights a week. I remember her exclaiming "You see your family too much!" I told her I never wanted to look back and think, "I wish I had seen them more." Perhaps some middle ground could have been reached in that matter, but it was just a part of the whole picture.
@@Insipid_Xerxes Precisely. My dad died of cancer over 10 years ago and I still feel regret for not seeing him enough when he was in hospital, when he came home in his final days I saw him more and I feel that made up for it. I guess I was naive , in that I underestimated (due to my Autism) the severity of his illness - due in large part because he was such a fighter and he always would say to me "there is no such word as can't" and "nothing is impossible". But my mum said to me, John don't feel regret for that, he understood it was hard for you to travel from one side of London to the other and you were with him in his final days and that's all that matters. I'd got in to debt before he got ill and he was angry, but on his bedside he told my mum out of all his children he felt he was the most proud of me in what I had accomplished and how far I had come. That means a heck of a lot to me.
I'm so tired of everything and everyone being angry all the time. Everyone is seriously trying to create a war of some kind. Gender war. Race war. Political war. Something.
who is everyone
You sound a little....angry 😕😭
Social Media ain't social. Between the Ad's, the echo chambers, the Ad's, the Angry Narcissist's, The Ad's, the stupidity and bullshittery, The Ad's, there is bugger all left. Once upon a time you had to actually ring someone every now and then to keep in contact, and you listened to how they were, and what they were doing. Now you pretend to do that by scrolling through a huge pile of Ad's and bullshit and you have no idea how your loved ones are, but you think you've "Kept in Contact"... Most people have hundreds of "Friends" they don't give a shit about, while having never spoken to those few they do care about for months if not years because "Ohh, I seen that post from Cathy a week ago about the kids birthday, I put an Emoji under it"...
So true, my friends contact me less each year. And since some do not share the platform I share, I can't help but wonder if they would even notice if I die...
"Is what you do to make children." I'm still laughing out loud. 😂😂😂😂 freaking hilarious!
Hilarious how the dude pronounced it.
That needs to be on a limited piece of merch.
@@Ntmoffi - Schweppepee! sounds like the cars' noises while the girl was trying to cross the street. 🙂
Someone who only watches a few rage bait videos will almost certainly be fed more via the algorithm. To the point where they see so many, they become angry and disallusioned with everyone. This is especially the case with relationship content.
Happy birthday Sydney! Wishing you all the best!
I really don’t care about the online stuff. The public disturbance is another thing. Need to start arresting these people to stop it.
Apparently people have forgotten the old internet adage, “Don’t feed the trolls.”
Also, this wholesale focus on garnering attention through rage is exactly how news outlets function, official or otherwise.
I listened to radio station animator that were using anger since the 80's. There is not always something interesting in the news so an animator was insulting the sport commentator that was raging. Suddenly you had a show where there was nothing
I have probably fallen for rage bait at times. When I see myself getting too angry it's at least possible that something was manipulated to make me unrealistically mad. That's when I either spend some time to investigate or just drop it and move on. I see no reason to raise my blood pressure for someone's clicks
Yeah, me too. I started using Reddit a year ago. Of course, I knew that everything I read might not be true. However, I made the stupid mistake of posting in AITA. Then a lot of people accused me of being a rage baiter. Who knows what’s real and what’s not. 😂
Honestly it takes something impressive to anger me anymore, indifference and apathy sure do reduce the amount of things worth being angry over.
Well, we are all so glad you explained that to us.... We had all been all wondering what you do for so long 😂
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@@savashseanadams2975 If you'd have watched the video you would have heard that Sidney asked us to comment about our personal experiences with rage baiting and how we handle it, which is exactly what I did. Now go troll elsewhere
Well, Happy Birthday Sydney. You don't look a day over 25. Keep up the good work with the Tea Co. so you can also keep us informed without too many sponsors if any being needed.
Thank you, fren. Appreciate that :) If my tea company took over and I didn't need sponsors, that would make my heart happy. maybe one day haha
@@SydneyWatson I know you probably enjoy expressing your views in addition to the potential monetary opportunities, but if your tea company became lucrative enough would you still make TH-cam videos?
She will forever be young enough to be my daughter.
_Looks into mirror..._
Yep, I'm definitely middle aged.
Happy Birthday Syd! You don’t have to apologize for loving your family. I’m glad you’re back!
One thumbs up for “taxation is theft”, although the real theft is government spending.
I've noticed recently that TH-cam has changed their algorithm to push channels that kick out lots of content, and as such most suggestions anymore are just freaking click bait.
I suppose it's just surprising that I feel anything at all. Maybe I should have some tea...
As long as you keep uploading quality, you’ve earned the freedom to upload a little irregularly.
SILENCE CHECKMARK 🙄
@@BleachDemon707 you shut up.
A Sydney video is always worth waiting for. And I agree with Sydney talk to your parents. I lost my mom in 2009 and my dad this year.
There's plenty of real problems in our world to be angry about without making shit up.
Environmental issues, private equity owning everything, government corruption, homelessness, mental health etc. Hundreds more real issues.
Being able to take time to spend with family is great! Just spent the weekend with my daughter and granddaughter!
I don't give my time (or emotions) to people being stupid or mean. I will like and comment on content that makes me feel happy or teaches me something.
Love hearing your take on all these subjects.
The "trad wife" was swearing like a sailor...very traditional of her.
She has a job where she was fired from and I heard she was not married. She is as traditional a wife as women married to the Effile Tower.
U think ppl didn’t swear in the past? 😂
You know people had already invented swearing in biblical times
She's clearly a Psyop trap. Ignore her.
The sailor version =P
I can't speak for anyone else but I say you do you . I appreciate when you put out content
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABEEEEE
Yay!
Your latest video was awesome. The title alone.... hahahahaha please never stop making content
aye make a vid im bored
SILENCE CHECKMARK 🙄
thank youuuuu!
Sydney, no worries about making breaks. Your content is rich, involving a lot of research, and quality is always preferable to frequency, if those are in conflict. You're always interesting to listen to.
We appreciate you trying to upload regularly. But we understand that you and many other people have a busy life.
Keep up the good work.
Much love from Canada.
It would be funny if you added, " Mom, you forgot your phone charger here"😂😂😂
This is the reason why I like to get any facts first. I tend not to be emotional on social media, simply because they're a lot of misinformation
An increasing number of news media and academia is using social media as part of their "discovery/research process", so no matter where you look for info in current day, at least SOME of it is coming from social media, even more so from researchers using TH-cam or newspaper videos, who use social media as their info sources for the videos.
So glad I’m not a Tik Tok user. Also you must feel relieved that it never came up in a superchat that you would have read out.
This has existed before TikTok and it's on all the major social platforms. It just takes discipline and practice to ignore obvious ones
That's why so many are relieved that TikTrash's day are numbered and this nonsense can come to an end. Not entirely, but it will be far less pronounced.
These people are putting themselves in the position to be judged so complaining when things don't go their way is ridiculous
Agreed. Don’t let the world provoke you to anger.
Especially when they are making a profit off your anger.
Sounds like gossip magazines -- which everyone knew were crap, and that was over 50yrs ago.
Guess the more things change .... the more they stay the same.
This is why I’m glad I am not on Twitter, instagram, or TikTok. Truly rots the mind
I have an Instagram account for my business. I'm not sure if it's worth it or not, but I post stuff about my business and about topics directly related to it. Nothing else. ...which might be why my engagement is low. However, I'm not willing to change that.
Happy birthday!
More energy and happiness to you, so you don't get tired in these tiresome times
23:50
You're so right, Sydney. It was terrible that this woman got hit with a barrage of negative comments accusing her of being a terrible parent when they should have listened long enough to see that it was this woman generalizing men as being terrible parents. She was such an innocent victim!
Thank you. I know that sometimes , i do get carried away in watching these types of videos that just call for your primal feelings.
Watching you expose them like this just made me realize, that this is a business, and these type of videos are made with this in mind.... to make money, to have views.
But it is hard to get away isn't....
1:41 whoever told you you don't sound Australian lied 😂
Her accent is very mild compared to most Australians. It's definitely Americanized.
Sydney "Australian name" Watson: Jupitah
In regards to hate baiting, I avoid it as much as I can. Occasionally I get fooled, but generally, if it vibes that way, I scroll on by. Absolutely NO tolerance for that BS. Great topic, thank you!
Don't worry about being caught up in that sometimes. It's only human thing to do.
With* regards, don't EVER say "in regards", otherwise you need to go back to school for English 101
@@johannesstephanusroos4969 you can correct my English any time. 👍
It's fine if it takes time for your new videos to come out. You make quality vids, so take whatever time needed, I think most of us here will wait.
The worst part for me is people apparently getting pissed and engaging over stuff that's just very cringe, like the girl being asked to leave because "she's too pretty".
I feel no anger, just intense second hand embarrassment.
From what I've read Tiktok actually doesn't pay .50 per 1000 views, but .02-.04 per 1000 views. If that's true, these people are going through soooo much trouble for pennies, really. Most don't get 40M views, but even if they do, it's just 800-1600. That's really not a lot of money. So they grind and grind more. Pretty sad.
I remember when I was a kid I was told to treat everyone the same. But the older I get the more it seems as if we've regressed back to segregation, the way we look and talk dictates what you're allowed to say and where you're allowed to go.
All aboard that hell gondola! Glad to see ya Syd! 👍
Brown eyed devil club
But will the hell gondola crew host a birthday bash for its captain? :P
I recently learned on 23 and me that all of my DNA, despite family rumors, comes from a thousand mile circle in the North Atlantic and Europe.
Which I guess makes me an evil colonizer.
Probably a decendant of serfs.
Welcome to the club we never knew existed and since there isn't even a handshake, I'm certain it doesn't.
That’s cool. In my opinion these people are superior to any other… lol just be warned.. the establishment wants us dead.. so ah.. yeah, you may want to kinda arm up and prepare for some planned chaos if you live in Europe or North America.. good luck.
I found out I’m 50% white and 40% black recently and was very confused😂 and 10% Filipino. Those test are wild
@@cloclo5290 @cloclo5290 yes, they are. Family rumor had us related to famous Cherokee and Klickitat on one side and Cohen on the other side. But no. All of my DNA is UK, France, Germany, Faroe Islands and Slav. That last is far enough away that I guess at some point, some German slept with his White Slavic Slave....
As an editor I can one million percent agree with the fact that people like me have the power and skillset to twist a narrative. A great example of this is dating shows. It’s all multiple takes to get an extremely specific reaction. A good example of this recently would be (I will probably be stoned for this) the Hillary v Crowder situation with the leaked ring camera footage. I saw both Candace Owens version and another one (can’t remember who). Both of those videos had two different subtitle outcomes which changes the context of the video, and now you can’t find it.
The thing is, you either trust or don’t trust what you see, because manipulation of the truth is everywhere.
Ever since I was a kid, I've been a troll online, so I'd say I'm pretty good about recognizing rage baiting.
Why? What do you get out of it?
@@andie3209 it was fun. I was young and an assholes.
I go back to the days of CompuServe and 1200 baud modems. Bulletin Boards were the rage and no one made money by being provocative or mean spirited. People did that out of a sense of malevolence and attention wh*ring. Now there is an incentive to be bad, stupid etc etc. I don't know if we can put the genie back in the bottle with this, the incentives are too great. imagine being 20 years old and making $20K a month. Don't know how to stop that or reduce its occurrence. Thank you Dr Watson for your disciplined rage.
I can admit that I've gotten sucked into a bunch of these, and I feel violated. I'll be scrutinizing things much harder going forward.
Skepticism is a super power this day and age.
glad to hear. i get sucked in too, have to remind myself these buttheads get PAID to make me mad. Uncool!
monetization ruined TH-cam and my space was better than all the newer social medias
As someone who’s a veteran of the internet flame wars of the mid to late nineties, I understand all too well how rage bait content works. It even caused me to fall off the internet for a few years. It’s led to the emergence of cyber bullying and other forms of online harassment. Nowadays, I’ve grown some thick skin, and don’t fall for the kind of rage bait content that crosses my social media feeds. I do, however, occasionally have to remind the trolls that I’m not easily manipulated by their attempts to get a rise out of me.😅 There’s something to be said about having a step father who taught me old school ways to handle bullying.🎉 Maybe if people would stop being so easily offended and manipulated by people such as Lily, they wouldn’t be able to use it to catapult themselves into internet stardom. Much love, Sydney, keep up the good work!❤
What you call cyberbullying and online harassment, is just common bullying and harassment, which came to digital channels the more political the Internet got. The more people came online, the more obnoxious and toxic it became. And then, trolling and extreme behaviors got monetized, and the wheels came off completely.
Got my tea ordered! My daughter and I love it and can't wait till you get some mint flavors. I've shared some with a few people at our church and they like it as well.
The oldest form of rage baiting is politics. Social media merely amplified it.
Cavemen:"Those darn mammoths! Why are they so loud when I want to sleep!?!" ;) :P
@@sigmacademy Captain Caveman is now in my head.
100%
I love that a video about stopping rage bait starts with a suggestion to hug our parents. ❤
😂
It’s much cheaper to buy instant potatoes than Pringles.
Even cheaper to just grow potatoes. You literally just throw it in the ground and wait.
For people making dozens of videos a week (and still have a job), I'm sure money isn't an issue. Which explain why their "hacks" are usually just trolling other people, and genuine cooks can easily debunk them. Speaking of which, the "debunking" cottage industry on TH-cam and their questionable "exposes" might be an interesting future topic.
@@stinkfinga4918why do you assume everyone has access to a yard? At least half of the population doesn't. Use your head.
@@aces553 you don't need a yard to grow potatoes... just dirt... cmon.
@@stinkfinga4918 🤔Do they know they can buy dirt at a store?
Well done. Always knew something went wrong with social media today including that bloody TikTok. Mind you I never have a TikTok at all. I used to have Facebook and Instagram but deleted them due to rage baiting bs and other bs stuff. Good job Sydney and blessings to ya :)
Oh my God guys, I was at a restaurant and the manager came up to me...He straight up told me I was too awesome and asked me to leave
Happy birthday, Sydney. 🎂🥳🎉🎁 the only thing that changed is the number. You're still awesome. And beautiful. ❤
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The solution to this is working on self control and emotional management. The people who are mad all the time only have themselves to blame. If not rage bait they’d be mad about something else.
The same people who attacked their neighbours during the Salem witch trials, later turned their natural anger outward as abolitionists against the South.
Sydney's terror face is awesome!
Sydney, you never make us angry. You stand with us in the righteous fight against the baying horde who champion everything that is debasing to the dignity of humankind. That my friend is a worthy cause. And in the end, we will win.
Just saw a post that said "Why is the camera there?" And that's a great point for anything that makes you mad
she thinks that she doesn't sound australian is the most shocking thing i've ever heard her say.
Happy Birthday, Sydney! You still sound Australian, it's perfectky understandable your Mum would be a priority, and as a native Texan, im sorry about the heat. Itll cool off somtime around Christmas. 😎
Saying taxation is theft made me fall in love with Sydney.
I liked you so much since the first video of you that I watched and now with the comment about loving your parents I like you even more. Your heart is in the right place. Greetings from Mexico 😊
the more I watch your videos the more noticable your aussie accent gets when it slips
happy birthday, love
Schadenfreude and shock bait. We have a massive negative biases.
Hardly a "bias". Anything negative to the personal self, is essentially a threat, and a survival instinct from many millennia ago, so it's a survival strategy, not a "bias".
@@sigmacademy it called "negative bias" in sociology
"It can be as simple as mispronouncing words on purpose, knowing it's going to enrage people."
I don't even need social media for that. Thanks a lot, Dad.
🤣🤣
My mom doesn't even do it on purpose...
I don't even need to mispronounce words. I can piss off the world with just one word...
⚽ *SOCCER* ⚽
I think we need a good phrase for this. Like "Don't feed the trolls." It doesn't always work, but I've seen it arrest a troll flaming or two. We need something catchy like that. "Don't get fished"?
"don't take the bait" seems an existing phrase.
@@victorcates9330 "Don't feed the troll" is also a phrase thats been around as long as internet fora were. Apparently people still didn't learn
Nah, I'd reserve "don't get fished" for catfishing situations.
When Donald Trump was beginning to loom large, it wasn't my fight (am Canadian) but I advised those concerned not to feed the troll. But they loved feeling offended and wronged. They effectively elected Trump their overlord prime before he'd passed the primaries.
@@victorcates9330 I like that, yeah
I get it. Life is much bigger than TH-cam and the best we can do as your audience is support you regardless of your ups and downs. You're your own boss here and I'm just showing up for the chaos whenever it happens.
I personally love Zen design. Wood themes, round shelves, that kind of thing. Lantern string lights are always an improvement. Plants like palms, monstera and bamboo are beautiful in backgrounds as well. Tans and greens, warm lighting
I don't have a TikTok account, and I rarely go to Twitter (I agree with your comment on the name change). I did see some rage bait stuff posted on TH-cam, and at first I participated, but I've grown tired of it once I realized what was going on.
Same in Turkey. Definitely escalated greatly after Elon Musk started paying people for "interaction". Who'd wanna work a shitty job when u can be a professional troll and take dumb people's time & money?
Taking such people's money and time isn't exactly a current day issue/practice?
Twitter doesn't pay much and it was designed to be how it is from the beginning. Seriously, welcome to the internet. This has been a thing since it went live in the late 90s. It's just normies, like you, weren't on it. The best advice I can give is the same we gave the odd one that would wander in. Stay off it.
LOL...when you call a spade a spade 😀😅😂
Happy Birthday Sydney :)
Love you Syd, keep up the great work
The good thing about rage content is I saw Sydney on Vice. It was an all women (?) panel and I loved the way she handled herself. And now I’m hooked on her content.
Your point is 100% valid. I'm an explorer. I bust my butt and risk my life multiple times a week to find historical ruins, explore abandoned mines and chart caves. My views are garbage. As soon as I do or say something even mildly controversial, my views go through the roof. It's an indictment of our society OR maybe my stuff is just not that good. I'm biased, but I think it's the former. I'll never lean into it, though. I'd rather be human and keep my dignity than "go viral" for acting like an idiot. Stand by who you are. No matter what.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SYDNEY🙌🙌🙌
thank youuuuu
@@SydneyWatson sending love and best wishes🙏🙏🙏
I personally hate rage content. As in, I refuse to watch it at all. Reality tv, tick tock, whatever. I don't care what it is. I won't watch it. I don't understand why people would want to watch things that make them angry.
Thank you! I am so happy that you bring this up. You are one of the only political channels I didn't unsubscribe to recently after I found out a lot of them do not consider me to be Christian for having a Pope.
Hello! I, too, am a Christian with a Pope! 😉 Good to know there's at least a couple of us here!
@@Sister_Felinity_Imaculata Thanks.
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They don't know you. They're not your friend. So you don't watch movies? Because I guarantee you a lot of the people involved don't share your religion and it's all entertainment or just informative.
@@debanydoombringer1385 Fair point but I personally feel it's different when it's motivational speakers and political commentators.
Sidney I look forward to your videos & am happy that you took time to enjoy your family.
They’ll not always be there so take every chance you can to see them.
My dad passed several years ago & my mom is 93 so I cherish my time with her.
I love ❤️ what you do & say & your videos are awesome & I love you my dear sweet lady.
My parents are dead, so let me make it clear to Sydney - "Families come first. Creating memories with those families comes first".
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
TED Talks are partially why we are in this current day mess.