Hank: people will come to see manipulative online content as manipulative and cringe (2025)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2025-06-27) · owner: Hank
In June 2025 Hank predicted that people would eventually see manipulative online content not just as junk food but as manipulative and cringe, though it would take a long time.
About: social media, Doritos
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-06-27 | predicted | Hank thinks people will eventually see such content not just as junk food but as manipulative and cringe, treating us as tools, though it will take a long time. | You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information 00:12:19 |
What is said about it
5 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank says we long wrongly thought calorie information, like the calories in Doritos, would make people healthier; nutrition is complex, nobody knows their calories, and tracking them is a full-time hobby. — 00:05:12
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: Avoiding it is hard not only because Doritos and Pop-Tarts are tasty and cheap but because too much food is a new problem with no cultural structures to handle it. — 00:05:41
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: Unlike food, the internet can make a personalized Dorito for each person that learns what they like and morphs, growing worse for them down a misinformation rabbit hole as long as they keep eating. — 00:09:35
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: This is very scary, but it is not cigarettes: the Dorito is still food, information that can be valuable or harmful. — 00:10:04
- 2025-06-27 · You’re Not Addicted to Content, You’re Starving for Information — Hank: Brilliant people design ever more appealing Doritos and we are at the stage where we are bad at this, but Hank has seen signs we may be getting better. (hedged) — 00:10:04