China kicks top influencer off social media for fabricating viral lost homework story
www.independent.co.uk
Thurman Maoyibe claimed a waiter in Paris had given her workbooks left by a Chinese schoolboy and set out on a mission to return them
  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    362·
    2 years ago

    I have such mixed feelings- on one hand having the gov shut you down over bullshit is insanely dystopian. On the other, I can’t stand click bait scripted internet videos…

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      217·
      2 years ago

      insanely dystopian

      In a way…

      But compare that to countries where no one can hold you accountable for being an asshole. You end up with people trying to out asshole each other, in my state it’s not abnormal to hear about road rage leading to shootings in traffic.

      But when you look back at the vast majority of human history, this was the type of shit most enforced:

      Don’t be a lying asshole and get the whole tribe worked up because you wanted attention.

      Now, if this happened because she said a government official was an asshole, or that society could be better…

      That would be insanely dystopian

    • PowerCrazy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      81·
      2 years ago

      Having an inherent risk attached to whenever you create bullshit seems perfectly fine to me. It’s not like any social media personality is accidentally doing what they are doing.

    • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
      6·
      2 years ago

      Imagine if this was the response whether videos of people claiming 40 beheaded babies would have come into existence

    • ivy@lemmy.ml
      33·
      2 years ago

      No, people lying on social media to children to make a living is dystopian. Stop it, get some help.