Social media platforms manipulate users by leveraging algorithms that reward engagement through engineered division and the exploitation of predictable psychological triggers.

“I think it's just an algorithm that's rewarding what's creating the most revenue. So, like, showing you an ad for shoes is way easier after you watch the little baby deer video, or after I make you think that the water supplies get being destabilized.”

Social media platforms enable and amplify the influence of manipulative, psychopathic individuals by removing real-world social constraints like accountability and cost.

“The problem with that is twofold the first problem is the exploitative sadistic Psychopaths have free reign because they're not held responsible for their utterances they're Anonymous they get rewarded for the propagation of their emotionally arousing material the algorithms will capitalize on it”

Frequent live streaming negatively impacts a person's mental state by blurring the lines between reality and the online environment.

“so yeah, definitely definitely messes with your psyche, I think. Yeah. Definitely messes with your head like your brain. Like I think there should be a study done on somebody that's never streamed before and they look at their brain and then have them go and stream for a month straight”

He suggests that people often experience parasocial breakups when an influencer or public figure they follow does something that violates their expectations, leading to public declarations of departur

“I think what's going on there is that like Janet is going through a parasocial breakup, >> but the uncanny part of a parasocial breakup is that you're not in a relationship with with Janet. She's in a relationship with you, but you're not in a relationship with her.”

She believes that social media is a net negative because tech companies exploit negative human emotions to drive engagement and profit, often at the cost of societal well-being.

“At this point, I think it's a net negative because the tech overlords are just overloading really hard. These really ugly emotions and conflicts are keeping people engaged and empowering them, >> enriching them. >> Enriching them. Mark Zuckerberg does not care about violence and disinformation.”