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How content creators make money from rage-baiting

2024/12/2
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Megan Lawton 解释了愤怒诱饵的定义、类型以及它对人们情绪的影响。她指出,愤怒诱饵利用了人们天生对威胁性事物的关注机制,以及人们更容易与激怒自己的内容互动这一心理特点。她还分析了愤怒诱饵的负面影响,例如使网络上的愤怒行为正常化,导致新闻疲劳和新闻回避,并对人们的心理健康造成影响。 Tom Gerken 详细阐述了社交媒体算法的工作机制,以及算法如何根据用户的互动行为(包括负面互动)推荐相关内容,从而形成一个恶性循环。他解释了算法不仅会推荐用户可能互动的内容,还会推荐受欢迎的内容,这可能会鼓励用户进行负面互动,以增加内容的曝光度和创作者的收益。他还提到了社交媒体平台正在尝试改进算法,但用户关注的人也会影响其看到的推荐内容。 Winter Zesu 作为一名内容创作者,分享了她创作愤怒诱饵的经验。她认为,她的内容之所以能走红,是因为它激起了人们的情绪反应。她同时也区分了单纯为了娱乐而制造争议与故意传播仇恨和错误信息之间的区别,并认为后者是不道德的。

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Rage baiting is content designed to provoke anger for engagement. It ranges from mildly infuriating tweets to shocking recipe videos and politically charged misinformation. The psychology behind its effectiveness stems from our innate attention to threats and the tendency to interact with things that anger us. The rise of creator programs on social media has amplified its use.
  • Rage baiting uses anger to generate engagement and profit.
  • It exploits our psychological biases towards threats and negative emotions.
  • Creator programs incentivize its use on social media.

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Rage bait is social media content that's designed to elicit anger and frustration. Those feelings can encourage people to engage with the content, often by replying. It’s a process that helps content creators earn a lot of money.

BBC reporter Megan Lawton discusses the reasons that social media users engage with this type of content and offers tips to identify it.

And BBC tech reporter Tom Gerken explains how our online behaviour dictates what social media posts appear in our feeds.

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