This Video Will Make You Angry

9 insights saved from this video by @technology

@technology· Tech & Society
Opposing ideas can feed each other: each side supplies opponents, attention, and fresh material for the other side’s spread.
@technology· Tech & Society
Agreement can kill an idea’s momentum. Opposition keeps attention alive, and visible conflict attracts bystanders into the loop.
@technology· Tech & Society
The Internet can make jokes better while making angry ideas more aggravating and more competitive with accurate, boring alternatives.
@technology· Tech & Society
Each side builds an exaggerated version of the other, and the most enraging version spreads fastest.
@technology· Tech & Society
The Internet turns ideas into evolutionary experiments: copying changes them, and improvements in appeal earn more sharing.
@technology· Tech & Society
The “with us or against us” frame erases neutrality, intensifies division, and strengthens both opposing camps.
@technology· Tech & Society
Every social media post is a mental sneeze seeking enough attention to make you pass it on.
@technology· Tech & Society
A joke is a thought germ living in your brain, then reproducing when you share it.
@technology· Tech & Society
Mental hygiene means recognizing your brain’s weak spots before emotionally triggering thoughts take hold.

More from CGP Grey

You Would Be a Terrible Leader14 insights

See everything from CGP Grey

Keep what you found in This Video Will Make You Angry

A free account saves any of these cards to your Collection, and Korva resurfaces them so you actually remember.