The discrepancy between the tweets written by Trump himself vs the tweets written/revised by his team has become glaringly obvious. With most political figures, you can't tell the difference. But in this case, you very much can. It paints the President as more unprofessional and causes audiences to lose trust in him as they feel like they are not always getting his true thoughts and feelings in every tweet.

I feel like for most political figures, people don't think about whether the political figure themselves have posted the tweet or if it was their team. This is because their authentic selves are either filtered or match what is expected of them. With Trump however, I feel like people are no longer wondering who wrote what. It is glaringly obvious when he has posted something vs if his team has posted something. Even if some tweets "sound" like him, I feel like I can tell if his team had a hand at editing the tweet. I feel like this discrepancy makes the President seem more untrustworthy and unprofessional. This is to say that discrepancies in how you present yourself cause people to lose trust in you.

This is a very interesting point and something I have noticed more on platforms like TikTok. Some people who make these jokes are appreciated while others are bashed for doing basically the same thing. I've also found that women are always the ones who get bullied more for trying to be humorous, especially if people deem it in-authentic. I wonder if there is a deep rooted misogynistic element to who is allowed to show humor in this way and who isn't.

I think it's a very interesting phenomenon that people post pictures chasing after social rewards without thinking about the ethics of it. Even if people do think about the ethics of it, they may decide that the social rewards are far higher than their moral obligations. This reminds me of when Logan Paul decided to post a video of a deceased person in the woods of Japan, completely disrespecting that person and all subjecting viewers to traumatizing content. In my opinion, any normal person would find that inappropriate to post, but I think at the time, Logan Paul must have thought the social rewards were higher than his moral obligations.

This woman visits Africa and her main comment about it is that her facebook profile will change forever. She also tells her friends that their profile's will also definitely change. She doesn't talk about the nature, the people (not much), or anything else specific. Somehow this reaction feels performative and paints her as a white savior, and doesn't make her seem like someone that actually cares about the people in Africa or someone that appreciates the beauty of Africa.

The creator of the endless scroll feature that many apps use today, Aza Raskin, talks about how regrets creating the feature without thinking much about its consequences. He explicitly says that it was designed to keep people online as long as possible and that he knows that the feature can make users do what "he" wants. The article also talks about the huge jump in teenage depression rates as a potential result of this.

I think one thing to note is how much clearer stand out pieces were here. It took real effort to make something go viral, whereas now, I find that it's a lot easier. Even so, one could argue that even amongst the millions of viral videos, there are still standout viral books, videos, movies, etc. I just think it is definitely a lot more saturated now than before.