Hi, my name is Jeffrey Thrash. You may know me from my YouTube channel. I enjoy video games and cartoons and I like to create my own animations. Enjoy!
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Man, whenever someone writes a long rant I always worry about when they're going to go off the deep end, but I'm glad that you're of sound mind and have good opinions throughout. And I empathise with the gloom-and-doom co-workers; how does one disconnect oneself from the all encompassing social-media-goings-ons without outright telling the co-workers 'please talk about anything else' and potentially ruining your social reputation in a place where you're forced to be stuck with other people?
As an outsider looking in, the 24/7 extreme negative newscycle seems to be almost unique to the US. Sure, they exist in pockets elsewhere in the world, but it's not nearly as prevalant; people don't care as much if you don't watch the news or keep up with the Joneses (at least not as much in all the countries I've lived in). People tend to talk about a big event for a week tops, and then everyone gets sick of it and stop (for good or for bad). My hope is that the average American will notice that the rest of the world don't listen to the news as much as they do and emulate them.
I think there's also something to be said about social media algorithms, and letting people live in 'experience bubbles' where they only see things they want to see (or think they want to see) and perpetuating negativity, but at this point I have already spent almost 40 minutes writing and re-writing this, so I think I'll stop; I hope what I've written isn't incomprehensible. But yeah, good read.
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Yeah, I think Americans have gone from one extreme earlier this century of resorting to escapism way too much and thinking only bad things happen to other countries to letting events out of their control (and unfortunately in many cases told in an extremely biased and melodramatic manner) affect their personal lives too much. Sometimes I have to remind myself that the same people who make me feel awful for so much as playing a video game one hour A WEEK are often the same kind of people that have convinced themselves that watching 24-hour cable news for 18 hours a day is somehow a healthier and more productive way to spend one’s time off.
Being reminded of the world’s problems from game “journalists” is especially irritating and inappropriate. It definitely feels like UK sites like Nintendo Life and Sonic Stadium are a bit better about making humorous articles on slow news days. For this same reason, my content here and any other social media platform I haven’t given up on yet will likely just be silly feel-good drawings in the future. I trust that people like you are informed enough and would rather leave sites with a feeling of amusement and maybe the “giggles” rather than a sense of dread.