Yeah the crazies back then were a bit better than the ones today. At least they had to be able to cobble up an html site, but to be fair, that was pretty common.
My point being that the craziest bullshit back then was at least a bit more sophisticated than the facebook crazies you speak of.
Also most content wasn’t mediated by large sites like social media platforms, which moderate their content. Actually writing an URL was way more common than now as it’s all just clicking links and icons.
Also, it was a lot less insidious - the crazy stuff was a lot easier to detect.
Granted, stuff like Time Cube Theory usually ended up incorporating antisemitic and anti-islamic tropes, but you’d have to wade through literally pages of red flags before you got there.
Now this kind of stuff is more sneaky - it presents as more reasonable, which makes it much more dangerous.
Yeah the crazies back then were a bit better than the ones today. At least they had to be able to cobble up an html site, but to be fair, that was pretty common.
My point being that the craziest bullshit back then was at least a bit more sophisticated than the facebook crazies you speak of.
Also most content wasn’t mediated by large sites like social media platforms, which moderate their content. Actually writing an URL was way more common than now as it’s all just clicking links and icons.
Also, it was a lot less insidious - the crazy stuff was a lot easier to detect.
Granted, stuff like Time Cube Theory usually ended up incorporating antisemitic and anti-islamic tropes, but you’d have to wade through literally pages of red flags before you got there.
Now this kind of stuff is more sneaky - it presents as more reasonable, which makes it much more dangerous.