Can You Watch This Without Getting Angry?
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中文导读
CGP Grey 用思想如同病菌传播的比喻,结合网络传播学研究,剖析了为什么挑动愤怒情绪的内容传播最快,并指出针锋相对的愤怒迷因是如何在互撕中双向反哺壮大的。
为什么 HN 推它
每当 HN 讨论社交媒体极化与网络愤怒时必被引用的经典视频,透彻讲明白了为什么互联网总是“越愤怒越有流量”。
「非常棒的短讲,把文章里提到的推特争吵起源解释得一清二楚。」HN 网友原话:Great TED talk on the original twitter kerfuffle referenced in the article
英文原摘要(HackerTube / Claude 整理)
CGP Grey explains how ideas spread like germs, and why content that triggers outrage spreads fastest, using a study on what makes online content viral. He argues that opposing outrage-driven memes feed each other.
HN links it constantly in threads on social media, polarization and outrage as the canonical explanation of why angry content wins.
HN 上的提及
I really liked "This Video Will Make You Angry" by CGP Grey.
There's also a video explaining it in terms of funny cat video production
which says that outraged ideas are the quickest to spread.
This reminds me of this CGP Grey video
(Yes, I link this often, because the message is valuable.)