Then I looked at the comments of many of these videos and it became clear that the issue was widespread. Here are comments I saw on the gore videos:
And people fucking commented on them, rather than just closing the app and doing something else with their life?
What is wrong with people? Has Instagram really got people so well trained they will just sit there and watch people dying out of habit?
It's straight up weaponized dopamine loops, it's REALLY hard to stop.
Have my 6376th up vote tonight.
Thank you, I shall add this to my wall of a thousand upvotes.
not everyone is opposed to seeing gore on their racism app
In an email, a Meta spokesperson told 404 Media “We have fixed an error that caused some users to see content in their Instagram Reels feed that should not have been recommended. We apologize for the mistake.” They said that the problem does not have anything to do with Meta’s recent announcement that it would loosen some content moderation rules.
To prove that this was actually happening, I sent Meta six links to graphic reels. These included two videos of people getting shot in the face, a video of a dead body with no context or obvious news value, a person getting lit on fire, the account called “PeopleDeadDaily,” and the tower of terror video. None of these videos have been deleted.
One of the many problems preventing people from actually holding Meta to account for any of this is that everyone’s feed is so incredibly personalized. Like I said, because we report on the darker corners of the internet, my Instagram feed is full of horrific things on a daily basis, which is probably not everyone’s experience.
Yeah so funnily enough I just checked IG reels and saw one where about four people get shot. There was a “sensitive content” screen over it but that’s it. Postmodern complaint: I’m just glad it wasn’t someone getting sucked into an escalator, those are freaky.
You've piqued my curiosity: how does one even get sucked into an escalator? What's gotta happen to make that work???
It’s always at the bottom or top right where you’d step off and you just watch the person’s shoe suddenly disappear, and then they disappear. I believe it’s a shoelace or loose/flexible shoes that get pulled into the machinery and belts where the surface flattens out and goes back under the floor.
Interesting. I get that this is a pretty morbid line of thought, but I'd kinda just assumed that the amount of force required to crush a person like that would be more than enough to just… rip off a foot or the limb or whatever and still leave enough of a person left over to survive…? At least, assuming bystanders were quick enough to stop the bleeding. idk…
Sometimes I really forget that Instagram exists.
Man, Meta sure is having a lot of "errors" lately...
Waiting for a youtube iceberg video to mention this incident
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