Ryan Broderick

Yeah.

And in terms of the gender thing, like men don't live well and they don't have good emotions, right?

and the internet allows them to see that women can express themselves more earnestly and it fills them with murderous rage so if a woman feels comfortable being like i looked pretty today or i graduated from college or i enjoy being in the backyard with my husband

There are a lot of men that become violently angry about that, but more and more.

And there are like all kinds of trends sort of towards like more reactionary, right wing, conservative gender centralism in America.

It's also like a lot of young women who overlap with pop music stands as well who get angry about this stuff.

And so you were sort of returning to an environment that was very prevalent in the 2000s, which was.

If you put your face on the internet, you have asked to become victimized by other people.

This was the psychology behind 4chan and something awful.

And so we have moved back to that.

And a thing that I've been cooking on for a little bit is I believe that that is actually a recession indicator.

I was looking at research.

I've been looking at research about the rise of the first troll armies.

And so Japan is a really good one to look at.

So the Netoyoku basically appear after an economic collapse in Japan.

And I'm trying to find more data about this because I believe that like angry sort of like faceless anonymous trolling and sort of anger and resentment is actually an economic like feature and not something that is attached to like a social media platform or a type of posting.

But I'm doing more research on that because I think it's really interesting.

Yeah, because it comes around every time like there's like a lot of economic disparity and it sort of thrives on resentment.

And so you get like people being like, how dare you have a good life?

An editor of mine years ago had this great line that I'm going to butcher that was something like, we will look back and realize that the invention of Instagram came immediately before the invention of the guillotine of the future.