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I tried searching, but I can't find anything. =(

(I stole this meme)

I also think a lot of "doomer" content on social media can have a significant effect if you're consuming a lot of it.

Imagine you're a teenager and you're constantly reading the most extreme takes about how everything is broken and terrible, the bad guys are always winning, you'll never find love, you'll never find a job, never own a house, never manage to have a family, etc.

An adult may have the life experience and perspective to recognize that the loudest voices aren't always 100% accurate, but a kid might take it at face value and despair.

It's a psychological consequence of polarization, which occurs when you have too many people in a social group agreeing with each other.

Groupthink elevates extreme opinions.

How do you feel about carrots and leafy greens?

Yeah, the upward trend seems to be around the time that teens would have gotten smartphones with data plans.

One of these days they will invent a bulletproof Arkansan.

Lol, probably. I doubt these guys had the judgement to do it in private.

This is a very sane and wonderful place

Unfortunately I think that only works from your instance's perspective. The majority of lemmy can still see the CIA oppressing you!

Yes, this is reasonable.

And they were all terrifyingly productive

This is why federated social media is important.