Talking to The National (the publisher, not the band), Elaine Wallace, senior lecturer in marketing at the National University of Ireland Galway (so many nationals!), said there’s a lot of research showing that people like to receive likes and are motivated to seek them. “People engage in all sorts of practices to get them, and it keeps them coming back,” Wallace explained.
But the negative psychological effect of the desire to collect likes has been freely admitted for many years by both Facebook and Instagram. In 2016, Instagram’s then chief executive, Kevin Systrom, for example, told The Wall Street Journal: “We need to have a place where you feel free to post whatever you want without the nagging fear of, did someone like that or not?”
Years later, however, there’s no such place in sight. People still go above and beyond for internet points, trying to impress folks they don’t even know. And when I say beyond, I mean burning fellow plane passengers with a high-powered laser and giving up a child after you learn you can’t include them in your videos.
To show how desperate some of us are for temporary online fame, we invite you to take a look at the recent posts we found on the subreddit r/justforsocialmedia. But if you scroll through the list and think that’s it, fire up our earlier publication on this community. Sadly, there’s way more.
#1 Give Your Grandson A Cake *they* Want
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#2 Booty Shots At Auschwitz!!!!
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#3 Imagine … Uggh
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#4 Influencers Jailed In Bali For Fake Mask Video Prank, To Be Deported As ‘Soon As Possible’
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#5 It’s Just A Prank Bro
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#6 Burning People With A High Powered Laser And Getting Yourself Banned From An Airport For Clout
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#7 Some People Just Aren’t Raised Right
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#8 Couple Gives A Child Up After Learning They Can’t Include Them In Their Videos
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#9 Tiktok Must Be Stopped
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#10 Imagine Going To Jail For A Tiktok
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#11 Wcgw Pretending To Have The Coronavirus
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#12 A Guy Sprayed Gorilla Glue On His Hair Cause He Didnt Believe The Gorilla Glue Woman Was Telling The Truth
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#13 Bruh
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#14 Great Way To Ruin Your Life And Other People’s Lives
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#15 When You Use Your Nanas Death As An Excuse To Show Off Your Tattoos
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#16 Wasting All That Food Just For A Photo
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#17 Wow, So Quirky
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#18 Harassing People While Shopping Is Classified As A “Prank”
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#19 She Knew She Would Get A Reaction With Her Funeral Dress
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#20 Hot Glued A Toilet Onto Your Head
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#21 Brain Dead For Social Media
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#22 Imagine Going To Supermarkets Just To Destroy Food
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#23 I Hate People Like This
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#24 Let Me Film A Tiktok Infront Of My Dying Friend
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#25 All I Can Think Is Ants… Ants Everywhere
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#26 The Lie Was Obvious, But That Didn’t Stop The Likes
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#27 Don’t Warn Him Or Scare Off The Bear, Just Film
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#28 Disturbing Everybody’s Shopping Experience
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#29 Reel Cool Dude
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#30 When Daddy Didn’t Give You Enough Attention When You Were Young
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#31 Creating A Mess In A Store For Literally No Reason
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#32 Disney Employee Posts Videos Breaking Rules At Disneyworld, Is Promptly Fired And Banned From Disneyworld
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#33 It Just Gets Worse
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#34 Girl Destroys Her Boyfriend’s Ps5 For A Tiktok
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#35 Texas Mother Poses As 13-Year-Old Daughter And Attends Her Class For Social Media Attention – Gets Arrested
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