September 1, 2021 • 39 mins
Americans see a rise in body dysmorphia in the age of Zoom calls and photo filters, Facebook and Apple battle it out over privacy, and Ronny Chieng exposes the dire consequences of selfies.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Comedy Central. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic,
a lot of people are doing worse than ever because
it turns out that the technology keeping us connected is
also making us feel like shits. With the stress of
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the pandemic, body image issues have been on the rise.
Percent of women twenty six percent of men said COVID
nineteen negatively affected how attractive they felt. The countless hours
spent on zoom or video calls is causing more and
more Americans to be insecure about their parents. Video conferencing
presents a constant, unedited, unfiltered look at ourselves that can
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be unsettling, and those front basing cameras were all using
aren't doing us any favors. Things like the nose could
actually appear larger and wider, and the eyes could appear smaller.
Not only is a person confronting their own reflection with
much greater intensity and frequency than they ever had before,
but they were staring at a distorted reflection. This is
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all part of an alarming new trend coined zoom dysmorphia. Yes,
zoom dysmorphia. It's when you realize that it's not just
everyone else who looks terrible on Zoom, and that's really
not cool. You know, Zoom shouldn't make you feel bad
about your looks. It should make you feel bad about
your dirty ass living room. But you have to remember, people,
this is a new phenomenon that we're dealing with. Humans
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didn't evolve to see their own faces all the time.
That's not normal. I mean, except for twins. I guess
they don't count their freaks. It's like another one of you,
what I think about it. For most of human history,
if you wanted to know what you looked like, you
had to get your friend to smash up some blueberry
and rub it on a cave wall. You look like this.
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Damn do I really hold a spear like that? Now?
The good news is that it's likely we'll all be
using zoom a lot less in the near future. But unfortunately,
there's another technology that also makes us feel bad about ourselves,
and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
I'm talking about photo filters. Yes, they've helped mankind realize
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it's dream of puking rainbows, but some of the most
popular filters just help you look more attractive, which may
sound harmless, but it could be anything but cuming. Edge
apps and social media filters are allowing ordinary people to
enhance their online photos to impossible perfection. In some cases,
it's sparking a concerning phenomena. With apps like Phase Tude,
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you have the power to completely transform yourself. Bigger eyes,
skinnier nose and jawlines, smaller butt or flatter belly, whiter teeth,
smoother skin. You can do it right on your phone.
When I take a selfie, I always use filters. I
wish I could look like my filter itself in real life.
This obsession with personal appearance that selfie culture encourages may
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have darker implications for mental health. A study in the
Journal of American Medical Associations as filtered pictures can take
a toll on self esteem, body image, and even lead
to body dysmorphic disorder. I do feel like we're losing
touch with what reality looks like. We're already getting there
to the point where we're expecting people to look as
unhuman as possible. Yeah, photo editing folters set unrealistic expectations
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for beauty the same way fruit ninja sets up unrealistic
expectations of how easy it is to slice floating fruit.
And once you have this foltered version of yourself in
your head, you become dissatisfied with what you really look like.
So in essence, we're basically catfishing ourselves. But if these
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editing apps can turn adults into quivering blobs of insecurity,
just imagine what they're doing to kids. Psychologists warn these
photo filters can be particularly troubling for teens and young
people who are still developing their sense of self. Girls
in one survey say they compare the way they look
to other people on social media instand like I follow
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people like Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, and they all
have this like time measure like body image that everyone
is expecting from this generation. Young girls on social media
have a negative body perception, with one in seven girls
reporting being unhappy with the way they look at the
end of elementary school, and that number almost doubling to
nearly one in three by age fourteen. Of young girls
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are using photo retouching apps to change the way they
look before posting pictures, and those with high scores for
manipulating their photos were associated with high scores for body
related and eating concerns. Any of you ever question your
body because of what you see on social media. Shay Man,
This is a vicious cycle for teenagers. Social media makes
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them unhappy with how they look, so then they use
filters which perpetuate the unrealistic expectations for themselves and others
plus the teenagers, so they're doing all of this while
they're driving, which puts everyone at risk and all the
insecurity this creates is harmful for teenagers because I know
it's hard to tune all of this out, but teens
shouldn't be obsessing over this stuff. Like I honestly wish
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I could sit all teenagers down and say, hey, don't
worry about how you look. The plan is going to
die out before you're thirty. It doesn't matter. Now. It's
bad enough when people wish they had the perfect Instagram
look in real life. What's worse is when they actually
try to make it happen. The more people look at
doctor images, the more likely they are to actually start
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seeking out cosmetic procedures at younger ages. These cosmetic procedures
are becoming so popular with teens, plastic surgeons have coined
a new syndrome for it, Snapchat dysmorphia, and the number
of kids getting Niptuck's may astound you. In and nearly
two hundred and thirty thousand teens had cosmetic procedures. Kids
as young as thirteen are getting them. Doctors seeing an
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influx of people of all ages turning to plastic surgery
to look more like they're filter of plastic surgeons reported
their patients wanted to go under the knife because of
dissatisfaction with their social media profile. Said their patients wanted
to look better in selfies. Absolutely, it's becoming more and
more common when people will show me images on their
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Instagram or even something that posted on facebooking or this
is really how I want to look. Just last week,
I had a patient come in and asked me for
more of an anime I and she couldn't figure out
why it's not possible. Okay, man, this is really disturbing.
Thirteen year olds in particular should not be getting plastic surgery.
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I mean, when you're thirteen, your physical appearance is already
naturally changing. I thought our faces an't doing is like
long term plastic surgery. I mean, this is what I
look like when I was thirteen. You gotta let that
should play out. Honestly, though, I don't blame the teenagers.
I blame the parents and the plastic surgeons. I mean,
how are you going to let them do this to themselves.
They can't even buy a Cigarett, but you're gonna let
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them buy a new face. Canny. This is getting out
of hand, which is why there's now a movement not
just against filters, but all the ways that people have
been distorting reality on social media. Many influencers have started
speaking up on this issue, admitting that they've presented altered
images in the past and are opening up the conversation.
Some are even posting raw, totally unedited photos of themselves
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and breaking down how people on your Instagram feed maybe
manipulating their angles and lighting to get that quote unquote
perfect selfie. There are many celebrities exposing the dangerous of
digital distortion. They are posting images of themselves, unedited, unfiltered
online and this is a great example. Two young girls.
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Pop star Lizzo made a big splash when she posted
a selfie in the nude and unretouched. There's there's no
shame anymore, and I just kind of post myself. It's like,
you take me as I am. You're gonna have to
let me. British MP Luke Evans has propose the Digitally
Altered Body Image Bill, which would require advertisers and publishers
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to display a logo whenever a person's face or body
has been digitally enhanced. Okay, first of all, I love
the idea of putting disclaimers on photos of people who
have been digitally altered. I love it, and honestly, I
don't think we should stop there. We need to do
this with everything that's been digitally out, like food ads.
Those are the worst. Every fast food burger looks great
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on TV, but then when I order it, it looks
like it fell asleep in a hot tub. But I'm
glad that we're finally learning the truth about what celebrities
look like. You know, personally, I'm waiting for SpongeBob to
join this movement. I mean, no way, that guy is
that square? Naturally, have you've seen that? So it's not
even maybe it's not real then't know, how would we
have a TV show now. I'm not naive enough to
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think that society is going to stop creating unrealistic beauty
standards anytime soon, all right, But what I do hope
is that we can better educate our kids and ourselves
that our own natural bodies are beautiful, except for that
flap of old people's skin we have on elbows, Like
that ship is gross. Okay who you are? It looks
like a mid on bull seck, but everything else is beautiful.
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But because this movement could take a while, we hear
The Daily Show decided to come up with a filter
of our own that might help our social media filters
giving you body image issues. Are you depressed you don't
look as good as your filter, then good news. You'll
never have to worry about living up to your filter again.
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With Rudify, it's a brand new filter that turns your
face into Rudy Giuliani. You'll never be happier with how
you look in real life. And obviously this wouldn't be
effective if you could turn it off, So Rudify overrides
all other filters, and just to be safe, Rudify retroactively
applies itself to every face in every photo in your phone.
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The best part is the filter is permanent, just like
Rudy himself. You can never get rid of it. Crudify
you'll be overflowing with self esteem. Warning use of this
Builted by Rudy Gleanni will rupture the fabric of space
and time. What is one of the biggest concerns people
have about modern technology privacy? Right, because our phones know
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everything about us, what music we listen to, how much
sleep we get, what our face looks like when we're pooping.
But now Apple is going to give you a little
more control over how widely that information is shared. You
know how it goes. You search for something online, then
see an ad on Facebook or Instagram for that exact item.
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While Apple is making it harder for apps to track
your online activity. When you're using apps on your iPhone,
you may start to see this Apple users must now
give permission for apps to track your online activity data
before you can only opt out. It's about time. Jenny
Geppard is with the privacy nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Switching from opt out to opt in is huge. That
is what's going to really make a lot more users
opt out of this tracking feature that wasn't built for users.
It was built for advertisers. That's right, people. With the
new io S updates, you have to opt in to
being tracked online instead of having to opt out. And
I know, it might seem like a small change, but
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this is a huge deal because people are lazy as
ship I think about it. If Apple said that they
were going to put all your nudes online unless you
opted out, you'd probably be like, what, No, ways, where's
that opt out option? Settings? General? Uh? Where? You know what?
I'm proud of my third nipple. Let's just do this.
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I don't care anymore. I've got things to do. And
people don't understand how much information Facebook is actually getting
from your other apps. Like you think it's a small thing.
You know how you always like to your friends. Oh,
I was talking about something and then it popped up.
Is my phone listening to me? No, it's the apps.
Like if you're in Atlanta and you check the weather
in Vermont, it won't wait for you to search for
a winter coat before it starts showing you ads for one.
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And if you've been ordering pizza every night on grub Hub,
well then the ads will show you a coach that's
two sizes up because it knows. So this new privacy
feature is good news for iPhone users, but it turns
out it's very bad news for one of Apple's biggest rivals,
Facebook In fact, it's so bad for them that they've
started throwing up pop ups begging everyone to let them
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keep tracking us and warning us that if we don't,
Facebook might stop being free of charge. And I'm not
gonna lie to people. That seems like an empty threat
to me, because who would pay to be on Facebook
With the type of people willing to pay to be
on Facebook? I mean, like, let's give a crack house
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had a cover charge. Actually wouldn't mind a Facebook started
charging people, because I think if they did, maybe people
would actually think for a second before they posted. The
government puts fluoride in the water to brainwash us. Most
two dollars. I'll keep it to myself now. The reason
Facebook needs to track its users is so that it
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can charge big bucks to advertisers who want to talk
at very specific audiences. But Mark Zuckerberg knows that people
don't care if he can't afford to give his hovercraft
the Lamborghini for its birthday, So instead he's asking you
to think about the poor companies that will suffer if
he can'tract you. Facebook said Apple's move will harm their
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small business advertisers. It's gonna kill us. It's gonna kill US.
But for Monique Wilson Debriano, who was featured in a
Facebook campaign and owns Charleston Gourmet Burger, the change has
already affected sales and she's had to cut costs. It's
not about you know, small businesses, you know, wanting to
take away anyone's privacy. All we want to do is
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really to service our customers better. So if someone loves
hamburgers and they're looking for something that is just awesome,
you know, to make your hamburger's taste better, I would
like to all might add to you. And this update
takes that away from small businesses like my. Okay, now
this is interesting. I mean I don't like getting tracked,
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but it is true that it does help some small
businesses target their ads, you know. And the truth is
in life, bad things can't have good side effects, you know.
It's like how serial killers are bad. We all agree
that they're bad, but you do get a lot of
really interesting podcasts out of them. Yeah. So I can't
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see what Facebook is trying to argue here. They're saying,
do you really want to hurt small businesses before Amazon
has a chance to bankrupt them? And honestly, I wouldn't
mind targeted adds that much. But the thing is, it's
how it is. How Facebook tracks all of us that
I don't like like. It will be one thing if
Facebook asked me, Hey, Trevor, do you like hamburgers? We're
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gonna show you stuff about food. But what Facebook actually
does is basically just send some guy named Gary to
just stalk my entire life life. Hey Travor, I heard
you like hamburger. What how did you know that? I
read an email you shed tea girlfriend? So maybe you're
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still not swayed by the effect of this change on
small businesses. And that's why Facebook is also warning of
the bleak future that awaits all of us if they
can't track our every movement anymore. Facebook's pushing back. It
relies on that data to target consumers with relevant ads.
So if people do opt out, here's what Facebook says
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could happen. Say a young man is looking for a
new pair of sneakers on his phone, Facebook claims that
with Apple's new rules, it won't be able to use
his search history and information about what other apps he
uses to show him ads for things he wants to buy,
so on Facebook or Instagram he could end up seeing
ads for women's clothing or furniture. Really, this is a
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real argument. Come on, make it then out of you guys.
We've lived our entire lives watching untargeted ads, right, TV ads,
newspaper ads, billboards. None of those were targeted and we
were fine, all right. Now all of a sudden, they're
making it seem like we can't live without them, Like
we're gonna be like, oh no, oh, no, I'll have
to watch untargeted ads. But how will I know if
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a product isn't for me? What if I buy tampons
because I didn't know that I don't have a period.
What if I buy dog food but I don't have
a dog and my dog and my dog on tampon,
I don't know. We can handle untargeted ads. In fact,
sometimes untargeted ads introduce you to things that you never
knew you needed. Yeah, like a shower seat. I didn't
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think about that before I came to America, And then
now that I'm here, I realized just because I'm not
a t doesn't mean I can't get clean and comfortable.
And you know, on top of all that, Facebook makes
it seem they make it seem like all they use
that data for is to sell us the products that
we want. But don't forget that the reason you often
only see posts that make you mad as hell is
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because of all the time Facebook is tracking you, and
they use that targeting to piss you off. It's not
a coincidence that Facebook is always telling you that Joe
Biden is going to make the Bible Spanish only, or
that Trump stole all the mail boxes to give to
Kim Jong un. It's because they know how to keep
you engaged for as long as possible, and they know
this by tracking you. And again I'm not pro Apple here, right,
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but Apple didn't build their entire business model on stalking you.
Facebook did. And if moving society away from tracking people
means that Gary has to find a new job, then
you know what. So be it like Gandrev who will
recommend creams for your Todair fun Guys, get the funk
out of here. Gary. Let's take a moment to talk
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about selfies. They're the top way to show people what
parts of your body on fleek. Uh. Yeah, for me personally,
it's my elbow, or as I like to call it,
my omnie. But as innocent as the selfie craze may
seem it can have real world consequences. And for more
on this, we're joined by senior technology correspondence Runny chaying
everybody thice forever. Selfies used to be a harmless way
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to show everyone how hashtag blessed your life is. But
as it turned out, looking at pictures of your own
head all the time can actually start to mess with it.
In this age of the selfie, there's been a surge
in lip augmentation procedures, the love affair with lips, leading
to a record number of lip jobs last year. Doctors say,
because we see so many images of ourselves almost constantly
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on social media, we're much more aware of how our
lips look. Are you serious? People are having surgery to
enhance their lips just look better in selfies? What happened
to just doing duck face? It always works for me, Yo.
No one's judging your lips, Okay, we're judging your double
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chin and your weird nose. I guess I'm trying to say,
is that why are you stopping at your lips? Just
face the whole face. I'll fix the whole face, and
not only ourself is blowing up lips. They're also shrinking
bank accounts. NFL prospect Laramie Tounsil should have been celebrating
being drafted into the NFL last night. Tons of was
projected to go at six to the Baltimore Ravens. Ended
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up falling That drop right there costs him about eight
million dollars in salary over the next four years. And
it's four the draft to open. A two year old
video posted to Tunsil's Twitter accounts showing him taking a
massive ball hit out of a gas mask. Come on,
how do you even know thats Laramie Tounsil. It could
be anyone. It could be a time traveling World War
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two soldier. Actually took days of investigative journalism to figure
out his identity. They had to go through the video
frame by frame, and they also helped that he took
his mask off and showed his face. Yo, if you're
recording yourself doing something illegal and you're already wearing a mask,
just leave it on. That's what masks a four. Also,
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why does the NFL even care if play a small pod? Oh?
Oh wait, I get it, because marijuana could cause brain damage,
and brain damage is triguet by the NFL. But hey,
at least Tonsill was just doing something stupid and not dangerous,
like snapchatting or driving. A new lawsuit filed against snapchat
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an eighteen year old Crystal McGhee. Snapchat has a feature
called a speed overlay filter, and it measures how fast
uses are moving while they are taking a photo or video.
A man is suing the social media giant, claiming that
an eighteen year old rope more than one hundred miles
an hour and crashed into his car while she was
using the app. Snapchat used to be about dick pis okay.
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Now you're encouraging people to take selfies or speeding. I
never thought i'd say this, but Snapchat I like you
do when you want to sending me dicks. Right and well,
at least this woman is okay and she learned a lesson. Right,
but even the crash didn't stop McGhee from snapchatting. Attorney
Saint McGhee sent out this selfie strapped to a gurney.
She types lucky to be alive. She sent a snapchat
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right after sending a snapchat nearly killed her. That's like
having an allergic reaction to shellfish and then on the
way to the hospital swinging by Red Lobster for the
Seafoo trio. Right. Also, what adamantium phone case are you using?
Like your car gets totaled and somehow your fulle magically survived. Meanwhile,
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my phone shadows if I drop it on a pillow. Unfortunately,
selfie's I'm just addictive. According to some people, they are
God given right. A South Carolina man learned the hard
way that trying to take a selfie with Amy Schumer
is no laughing matter. The comedian says that she was
scared when this man ran up to her and started
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reading video. This is America, I said, in America, when
you see a celebrity, you go and take a selfie.
This is America. Then you said it like it's in
the constitution. Listen, nowhere does this say we hold these
truths to be selfie evident. Look, when we see famous people,
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we all want to take a selfie of them, right.
I want to take a selfie of travel right now,
So I could get a ton of lights, all right,
Not as many lights as if I took it with
Amy Schumer, but hey, still a lot, all right. But
you know what, I resist the urge. That's what being
human is about resisting your base impulses. All right, That's
why I'm not humping this desk right now, So go
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ahead and keep taking selfies. Just understand it's a time
and a place, all right, And everyone else stop acting
like narcissism is just a millennial thing. Okay, old people,
you would have done the exact same if you had
access to the technology. What's we're taking two seconds the
snap of selfie or spending six months painting yourself now?
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I mean, look, look how easy is to just do
one of these? Look I thought you said you were't
gonna take us out. What are you doing and take
a selfie? Yep? I also said I wasn't gonna hump
the death. But you know what you gotta do what
you gotta doing, all right, So you got all right?
Thank you ny trying. Everyone. You may or may not
have heard of black twitter who, but it's huge And
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if you want to understand it, imagine the barbershop. I
know what you're thinking, that's the barbershop. I'm a black dude.
We're about to do all the usual stuff. The bron
James dunt don't fire cripple kids, Shut your ass up,
bulet Man Blue Let the boys they got no daddy,
markis you gotta daddy? And look you look. For decades,
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the black barbershop has been the epicenter of black cultural discussion.
But the Internet has changed things. Let me introduce you
to black Twitter. Black Twitter is an entire I think
that that I think we need somebody more qualified. Let's
go with Jimmy Little Mule, executive writer and most importantly
black person. Jimmy. What is black Twitter? It's just really
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an extension of how we communicate in our neighborhoods and
our barbershops, and our churches and our schools. It is
our village. Think of black Twitter as Harlem black folks
made it cool and a white people trying to move
in what we do on social media, And of course
we over index and we use it more than anybody else,
and we use it on mobile, which means we have it,
you know, by our sides, twenty four hours a day.
That's right. While we make up just twelve of the
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US population of American Twitter users are black, and they're
three times more likely to post daily on Twitter than
white people. But that's not the only reason black Twitter
is important. And if anybody can back it up. It's
a brother wearing a hoodie, and I can go Ellen
James White. One of the major parts of of quote
unquote black Twitter is the ability to force a conversation
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that otherwise would be ignored. Hashtag oscar so White made
the oscars more black. You got fergus Black Lives Matter,
Bring back our Girls, Ferguson. When it first happened, Mike
Brown getting shot, I knew about that before it hit
the news because I was seeing tweets from St. St.
Louis and Ferguson that his body hadn't been picked up yet.
Movements that once took weeks to mobileizes can come together
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in mere hours. Jorge Zimmerman, I believe would not have
been arrested or tried at all. We're not for black Twitter.
People love to say, oh, if Dr King had Twitter,
he would have got more accomplished wood he How do
you know he would have just been up all night
arguing with trolls. Mardn come to bed corrected. I can't.
Malcolm X still popping off at the mouth. I snatched
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the boat tie off his ask. Black twitter is just
as complicated and nuanced as the black community itself. Like
within black Twitter, you still have an intellectual Twitter, you
have academics, and you have hotep Twitter. Everybody don't like
to be called a hotep. According to the Route, a
hotep is a clueless parody of afrocentricity, someone who's loudly,
conspicuously and obnoxiously pro black. But I think that's a
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little harsh. I prefer to call these brothers black and through.
That's why we gotta be black, do black, shot by black,
date black, smoke black. And of course you've got the
bay Hive. One of them twins ain't even jay Z's
who's talking about Beyonce. No Beyonce slander Chow survived. She
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represents joy for so many people, particularly black women. She's
on the wall with Martin Malcolm Barrock. Black Twitter is
also the place to keep up with the latest fashion, music,
and racial slurs. I have been called every type of
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on the planet r R. It's types of because I
didn't know existing until I got called them on Twitter.
Anybody can get it on black Twitter, even if you're
in the NFL Hall of Fame. Just ask Jerry Rice,
who thought it was all good to wear fried chicken
helmet in a Popeye's commercial. I don't think there's every
excuse for a chicken helmet. You decided to put on
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the chicken helmet, that's between you and your guys. Sometimes
people need to be shaped. Black Twitter has no qualms
about calling anybody out. This is live footage of Jerry
right to getting drugs on black Twitter. And it's not
just people. Corporations try to be too cool and they
get on the wrong side of black Twitter all the
time by doing things like using black sling to sell pancakes.
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Nine Hof is one of those brands. It's just done weird,
like pancakes on fleek, Hey, cake man, pancakes on fleep,
Like you just don't throw on fleek behind something and
call that, you know, engaging with the culture. Here's the
general rule of thumb to all corporations. If you wouldn't
say it to a black person's face, don't tweet it,
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boy boyah, retweet to win. I'm saying just black Twitter
challenges spaces of power in a way that we haven't
seen before. Black experience in America is diverse, but more importantly,
it's vocal. So if you're wondering how to find black Twitter,
it's probably not for you. They should just give us Twitter.
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We have appropriated Twitter. This is the first thing that
black people have effectively appropriated and made our own. As
long as black Twitters, they're the fight for justice has
got a bit easier. There's my money, I know where
you were. Ok. Yeah, social media, it's affected every aspect
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of our lives, how we communicate, how we stay informed,
how we showcase our booty clapping skills. Uh yeah, I
used to. I used to make homemade DVDs to get
that out. Now it's so much easier. But lately, but lately,
conservatives have been complaining that tech companies are biased against them,
and yesterday they took action. In real life, the Justice
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Department is looking at whether Facebook and Twitter are intentionally
stifling the free extra age of ideas. Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey told a House committee his company is not censoring conservatives.
Jeff Sessions double down and says he'll gather state attorneys
general to discuss whether social media companies stifle conservatives. That's right.
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Jeff Sessions has announced that he's going to look high
and low, mostly low, to find out if social media
companies are censoring conservatives. Yeah, he's probably gonna come back like, well,
I couldn't find any bias, Like did you check the
top self? No? And now now, the reason the Justice
departments and both Houses are all over this issue is
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because clearly they're taking cues from the top. You look
at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants, and
I've made it clear that we as a country cannot
tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and ragged search results. We will
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not let large corporate action silence conservative voices. That's right, folks.
I Donald J. Trump and sick of being silenced. When
was the last time you saw a tweet of mine?
When was the last time you saw something about me
on the internet? Folks? It's been almost half an hour.
Why is that? Is it because I've been up here
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for thirty minutes or because I've been fine? It goes
a thing sets, Come on, get the out of here. Man.
How is the guy who became president because of Twitter
claiming that Twitter is censoring him and out to get him? Yeah,
like the outer to get him elected. It's like Superman
bitching about Earth, like, man, this planet is holding me back.
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It's like, no, this planet is what made you. If
you don't like it, Superman. I want to just go
home and be called hell the accountant. Oh that's right,
you can't go home because your home blew up. Sorry,
I get angry when Superman shoots on Earth Man. But
but maybe maybe the president feels like conservators are being
censored because his only source of information keeps telling him.
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So the tech giants are obviously politically biased against conservatives.
No one really disputes that you cannot have them dominating
the information space only on behalf of left wingers. Sometimes
when you search my name, certain articles will pop up
that are more disparaging and more negative, and for you know,
three or four years ago, instead of anything current. Okay, now,
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to be fair, I understand what the stale prince of
Bellet is saying. Sometimes sometimes Google prioritizes older negative stories.
But that's not anti conservative bias, that's just the internet, right.
The negative stories get much more attention than the positive ones.
Like when I google myself, the news is never about
some cool joke that I told. No, it's always something negative.
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And I tell cool jokes all the time, all right,
You never hear about the good stuff. For example, For example,
right today, I saved this baby on the way to work.
But are you gonna see that first page of my
Google soarch results? No? But if I do this, if
I do this, but I do this number one news
story on Google News. And I'm not even a comedian anymore,
all of a sudden, I'm just a South African baby slam.
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That's who I am. The Internet is cool to everyone, everyone,
But according to many people on Fox News, the only
explanation for this is bias. I tweeted out a clip
from CNN of James Clapper basically admitting that President Obama
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was the one who directed all of the intelligence agencies
UM at the at the end of to launch an
investigation uh into President Trump. So I tweeted out, it
got no life. It got no life, And I know
that's something that my followers and viewers care about big time.
It got no left. So I'm just wondering, was I
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shadow band? No? No, Maria Bromo, you're host, was just boring.
And I'm not even saying that to be mean. We've
all been there. Every one of us has posted something
online that we were sure it was going to break
the internet. Right. All of us had that one tweet
where we were like, oh man, this twoe is gonna
blow up. This tree is gonna blow up, and you're like,
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should I said, no, not yet, not yet. Oh man,
this tree has gone. Oh wait, look hold on, hold on, hey,
cancel all my meetings. I'm about to go viral. And
then you're like and then you hit sent and then
you're looking and you're like, come on any time now, anytime? Alright,
no likes refreshed, hold on, no likes, okay, hold on?
Hold is the WiFi working? No WiFi? Okay, I'll just
like it myself and get it started. There you go, alright,
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one like it happens to all of us. And look,
I'm not saying there should be no regulation of tech companies,
don't get me wrong. I just I'm just surprised to
see conservatives all of a sudden in favor of your
regulating private businesses. Right because when it's consumers or gay
people or polar bears saying, hey, can you regulate some industries,
conservatives are like, it's not the government's joel to regulate
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private business. But then as soon as they feel like
they're not getting enough retweets, suddenly it's like we're launching
an investigation. We've got a nationalized tech companies, Long Lift,
Socializar Berney, Bernie Berney, Berney, The Daily Show with Trevor
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This has been a Comedy Central podcast
You're listening to Comedy Central. Unfortunately, due to the pandemic,
a lot of people are doing worse than ever because
it turns out that the technology keeping us connected is
also making us feel like shits. With the stress of
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the pandemic, body image issues have been on the rise.
Percent of women twenty six percent of men said COVID
nineteen negatively affected how attractive they felt. The countless hours
spent on zoom or video calls is causing more and
more Americans to be insecure about their parents. Video conferencing
presents a constant, unedited, unfiltered look at ourselves that can
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be unsettling, and those front basing cameras were all using
aren't doing us any favors. Things like the nose could
actually appear larger and wider, and the eyes could appear smaller.
Not only is a person confronting their own reflection with
much greater intensity and frequency than they ever had before,
but they were staring at a distorted reflection. This is
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all part of an alarming new trend coined zoom dysmorphia. Yes,
zoom dysmorphia. It's when you realize that it's not just
everyone else who looks terrible on Zoom, and that's really
not cool. You know, Zoom shouldn't make you feel bad
about your looks. It should make you feel bad about
your dirty ass living room. But you have to remember, people,
this is a new phenomenon that we're dealing with. Humans
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didn't evolve to see their own faces all the time.
That's not normal. I mean, except for twins. I guess
they don't count their freaks. It's like another one of you,
what I think about it. For most of human history,
if you wanted to know what you looked like, you
had to get your friend to smash up some blueberry
and rub it on a cave wall. You look like this.
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Damn do I really hold a spear like that? Now?
The good news is that it's likely we'll all be
using zoom a lot less in the near future. But unfortunately,
there's another technology that also makes us feel bad about ourselves,
and it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
I'm talking about photo filters. Yes, they've helped mankind realize
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it's dream of puking rainbows, but some of the most
popular filters just help you look more attractive, which may
sound harmless, but it could be anything but cuming. Edge
apps and social media filters are allowing ordinary people to
enhance their online photos to impossible perfection. In some cases,
it's sparking a concerning phenomena. With apps like Phase Tude,
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you have the power to completely transform yourself. Bigger eyes,
skinnier nose and jawlines, smaller butt or flatter belly, whiter teeth,
smoother skin. You can do it right on your phone.
When I take a selfie, I always use filters. I
wish I could look like my filter itself in real life.
This obsession with personal appearance that selfie culture encourages may
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have darker implications for mental health. A study in the
Journal of American Medical Associations as filtered pictures can take
a toll on self esteem, body image, and even lead
to body dysmorphic disorder. I do feel like we're losing
touch with what reality looks like. We're already getting there
to the point where we're expecting people to look as
unhuman as possible. Yeah, photo editing folters set unrealistic expectations
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for beauty the same way fruit ninja sets up unrealistic
expectations of how easy it is to slice floating fruit.
And once you have this foltered version of yourself in
your head, you become dissatisfied with what you really look like.
So in essence, we're basically catfishing ourselves. But if these
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editing apps can turn adults into quivering blobs of insecurity,
just imagine what they're doing to kids. Psychologists warn these
photo filters can be particularly troubling for teens and young
people who are still developing their sense of self. Girls
in one survey say they compare the way they look
to other people on social media instand like I follow
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people like Kendall Jenner and Kylie Jenner, and they all
have this like time measure like body image that everyone
is expecting from this generation. Young girls on social media
have a negative body perception, with one in seven girls
reporting being unhappy with the way they look at the
end of elementary school, and that number almost doubling to
nearly one in three by age fourteen. Of young girls
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are using photo retouching apps to change the way they
look before posting pictures, and those with high scores for
manipulating their photos were associated with high scores for body
related and eating concerns. Any of you ever question your
body because of what you see on social media. Shay Man,
This is a vicious cycle for teenagers. Social media makes
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them unhappy with how they look, so then they use
filters which perpetuate the unrealistic expectations for themselves and others
plus the teenagers, so they're doing all of this while
they're driving, which puts everyone at risk and all the
insecurity this creates is harmful for teenagers because I know
it's hard to tune all of this out, but teens
shouldn't be obsessing over this stuff. Like I honestly wish
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I could sit all teenagers down and say, hey, don't
worry about how you look. The plan is going to
die out before you're thirty. It doesn't matter. Now. It's
bad enough when people wish they had the perfect Instagram
look in real life. What's worse is when they actually
try to make it happen. The more people look at
doctor images, the more likely they are to actually start
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seeking out cosmetic procedures at younger ages. These cosmetic procedures
are becoming so popular with teens, plastic surgeons have coined
a new syndrome for it, Snapchat dysmorphia, and the number
of kids getting Niptuck's may astound you. In and nearly
two hundred and thirty thousand teens had cosmetic procedures. Kids
as young as thirteen are getting them. Doctors seeing an
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influx of people of all ages turning to plastic surgery
to look more like they're filter of plastic surgeons reported
their patients wanted to go under the knife because of
dissatisfaction with their social media profile. Said their patients wanted
to look better in selfies. Absolutely, it's becoming more and
more common when people will show me images on their
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Instagram or even something that posted on facebooking or this
is really how I want to look. Just last week,
I had a patient come in and asked me for
more of an anime I and she couldn't figure out
why it's not possible. Okay, man, this is really disturbing.
Thirteen year olds in particular should not be getting plastic surgery.
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I mean, when you're thirteen, your physical appearance is already
naturally changing. I thought our faces an't doing is like
long term plastic surgery. I mean, this is what I
look like when I was thirteen. You gotta let that
should play out. Honestly, though, I don't blame the teenagers.
I blame the parents and the plastic surgeons. I mean,
how are you going to let them do this to themselves.
They can't even buy a Cigarett, but you're gonna let
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them buy a new face. Canny. This is getting out
of hand, which is why there's now a movement not
just against filters, but all the ways that people have
been distorting reality on social media. Many influencers have started
speaking up on this issue, admitting that they've presented altered
images in the past and are opening up the conversation.
Some are even posting raw, totally unedited photos of themselves
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and breaking down how people on your Instagram feed maybe
manipulating their angles and lighting to get that quote unquote
perfect selfie. There are many celebrities exposing the dangerous of
digital distortion. They are posting images of themselves, unedited, unfiltered
online and this is a great example. Two young girls.
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Pop star Lizzo made a big splash when she posted
a selfie in the nude and unretouched. There's there's no
shame anymore, and I just kind of post myself. It's like,
you take me as I am. You're gonna have to
let me. British MP Luke Evans has propose the Digitally
Altered Body Image Bill, which would require advertisers and publishers
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to display a logo whenever a person's face or body
has been digitally enhanced. Okay, first of all, I love
the idea of putting disclaimers on photos of people who
have been digitally altered. I love it, and honestly, I
don't think we should stop there. We need to do
this with everything that's been digitally out, like food ads.
Those are the worst. Every fast food burger looks great
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on TV, but then when I order it, it looks
like it fell asleep in a hot tub. But I'm
glad that we're finally learning the truth about what celebrities
look like. You know, personally, I'm waiting for SpongeBob to
join this movement. I mean, no way, that guy is
that square? Naturally, have you've seen that? So it's not
even maybe it's not real then't know, how would we
have a TV show now. I'm not naive enough to
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think that society is going to stop creating unrealistic beauty
standards anytime soon, all right, But what I do hope
is that we can better educate our kids and ourselves
that our own natural bodies are beautiful, except for that
flap of old people's skin we have on elbows, Like
that ship is gross. Okay who you are? It looks
like a mid on bull seck, but everything else is beautiful.
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But because this movement could take a while, we hear
The Daily Show decided to come up with a filter
of our own that might help our social media filters
giving you body image issues. Are you depressed you don't
look as good as your filter, then good news. You'll
never have to worry about living up to your filter again.
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With Rudify, it's a brand new filter that turns your
face into Rudy Giuliani. You'll never be happier with how
you look in real life. And obviously this wouldn't be
effective if you could turn it off, So Rudify overrides
all other filters, and just to be safe, Rudify retroactively
applies itself to every face in every photo in your phone.
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The best part is the filter is permanent, just like
Rudy himself. You can never get rid of it. Crudify
you'll be overflowing with self esteem. Warning use of this
Builted by Rudy Gleanni will rupture the fabric of space
and time. What is one of the biggest concerns people
have about modern technology privacy? Right, because our phones know
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everything about us, what music we listen to, how much
sleep we get, what our face looks like when we're pooping.
But now Apple is going to give you a little
more control over how widely that information is shared. You
know how it goes. You search for something online, then
see an ad on Facebook or Instagram for that exact item.
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While Apple is making it harder for apps to track
your online activity. When you're using apps on your iPhone,
you may start to see this Apple users must now
give permission for apps to track your online activity data
before you can only opt out. It's about time. Jenny
Geppard is with the privacy nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Switching from opt out to opt in is huge. That
is what's going to really make a lot more users
opt out of this tracking feature that wasn't built for users.
It was built for advertisers. That's right, people. With the
new io S updates, you have to opt in to
being tracked online instead of having to opt out. And
I know, it might seem like a small change, but
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this is a huge deal because people are lazy as
ship I think about it. If Apple said that they
were going to put all your nudes online unless you
opted out, you'd probably be like, what, No, ways, where's
that opt out option? Settings? General? Uh? Where? You know what?
I'm proud of my third nipple. Let's just do this.
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I don't care anymore. I've got things to do. And
people don't understand how much information Facebook is actually getting
from your other apps. Like you think it's a small thing.
You know how you always like to your friends. Oh,
I was talking about something and then it popped up.
Is my phone listening to me? No, it's the apps.
Like if you're in Atlanta and you check the weather
in Vermont, it won't wait for you to search for
a winter coat before it starts showing you ads for one.
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And if you've been ordering pizza every night on grub Hub,
well then the ads will show you a coach that's
two sizes up because it knows. So this new privacy
feature is good news for iPhone users, but it turns
out it's very bad news for one of Apple's biggest rivals,
Facebook In fact, it's so bad for them that they've
started throwing up pop ups begging everyone to let them
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keep tracking us and warning us that if we don't,
Facebook might stop being free of charge. And I'm not
gonna lie to people. That seems like an empty threat
to me, because who would pay to be on Facebook
With the type of people willing to pay to be
on Facebook? I mean, like, let's give a crack house
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had a cover charge. Actually wouldn't mind a Facebook started
charging people, because I think if they did, maybe people
would actually think for a second before they posted. The
government puts fluoride in the water to brainwash us. Most
two dollars. I'll keep it to myself now. The reason
Facebook needs to track its users is so that it
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can charge big bucks to advertisers who want to talk
at very specific audiences. But Mark Zuckerberg knows that people
don't care if he can't afford to give his hovercraft
the Lamborghini for its birthday, So instead he's asking you
to think about the poor companies that will suffer if
he can'tract you. Facebook said Apple's move will harm their
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small business advertisers. It's gonna kill us. It's gonna kill US.
But for Monique Wilson Debriano, who was featured in a
Facebook campaign and owns Charleston Gourmet Burger, the change has
already affected sales and she's had to cut costs. It's
not about you know, small businesses, you know, wanting to
take away anyone's privacy. All we want to do is
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really to service our customers better. So if someone loves
hamburgers and they're looking for something that is just awesome,
you know, to make your hamburger's taste better, I would
like to all might add to you. And this update
takes that away from small businesses like my. Okay, now
this is interesting. I mean I don't like getting tracked,
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but it is true that it does help some small
businesses target their ads, you know. And the truth is
in life, bad things can't have good side effects, you know.
It's like how serial killers are bad. We all agree
that they're bad, but you do get a lot of
really interesting podcasts out of them. Yeah. So I can't
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see what Facebook is trying to argue here. They're saying,
do you really want to hurt small businesses before Amazon
has a chance to bankrupt them? And honestly, I wouldn't
mind targeted adds that much. But the thing is, it's
how it is. How Facebook tracks all of us that
I don't like like. It will be one thing if
Facebook asked me, Hey, Trevor, do you like hamburgers? We're
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gonna show you stuff about food. But what Facebook actually
does is basically just send some guy named Gary to
just stalk my entire life life. Hey Travor, I heard
you like hamburger. What how did you know that? I
read an email you shed tea girlfriend? So maybe you're
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still not swayed by the effect of this change on
small businesses. And that's why Facebook is also warning of
the bleak future that awaits all of us if they
can't track our every movement anymore. Facebook's pushing back. It
relies on that data to target consumers with relevant ads.
So if people do opt out, here's what Facebook says
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could happen. Say a young man is looking for a
new pair of sneakers on his phone, Facebook claims that
with Apple's new rules, it won't be able to use
his search history and information about what other apps he
uses to show him ads for things he wants to buy,
so on Facebook or Instagram he could end up seeing
ads for women's clothing or furniture. Really, this is a
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real argument. Come on, make it then out of you guys.
We've lived our entire lives watching untargeted ads, right, TV ads,
newspaper ads, billboards. None of those were targeted and we
were fine, all right. Now all of a sudden, they're
making it seem like we can't live without them, Like
we're gonna be like, oh no, oh, no, I'll have
to watch untargeted ads. But how will I know if
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a product isn't for me? What if I buy tampons
because I didn't know that I don't have a period.
What if I buy dog food but I don't have
a dog and my dog and my dog on tampon,
I don't know. We can handle untargeted ads. In fact,
sometimes untargeted ads introduce you to things that you never
knew you needed. Yeah, like a shower seat. I didn't
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think about that before I came to America, And then
now that I'm here, I realized just because I'm not
a t doesn't mean I can't get clean and comfortable.
And you know, on top of all that, Facebook makes
it seem they make it seem like all they use
that data for is to sell us the products that
we want. But don't forget that the reason you often
only see posts that make you mad as hell is
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because of all the time Facebook is tracking you, and
they use that targeting to piss you off. It's not
a coincidence that Facebook is always telling you that Joe
Biden is going to make the Bible Spanish only, or
that Trump stole all the mail boxes to give to
Kim Jong un. It's because they know how to keep
you engaged for as long as possible, and they know
this by tracking you. And again I'm not pro Apple here, right,
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but Apple didn't build their entire business model on stalking you.
Facebook did. And if moving society away from tracking people
means that Gary has to find a new job, then
you know what. So be it like Gandrev who will
recommend creams for your Todair fun Guys, get the funk
out of here. Gary. Let's take a moment to talk
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about selfies. They're the top way to show people what
parts of your body on fleek. Uh. Yeah, for me personally,
it's my elbow, or as I like to call it,
my omnie. But as innocent as the selfie craze may
seem it can have real world consequences. And for more
on this, we're joined by senior technology correspondence Runny chaying
everybody thice forever. Selfies used to be a harmless way
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to show everyone how hashtag blessed your life is. But
as it turned out, looking at pictures of your own
head all the time can actually start to mess with it.
In this age of the selfie, there's been a surge
in lip augmentation procedures, the love affair with lips, leading
to a record number of lip jobs last year. Doctors say,
because we see so many images of ourselves almost constantly
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on social media, we're much more aware of how our
lips look. Are you serious? People are having surgery to
enhance their lips just look better in selfies? What happened
to just doing duck face? It always works for me, Yo.
No one's judging your lips, Okay, we're judging your double
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chin and your weird nose. I guess I'm trying to say,
is that why are you stopping at your lips? Just
face the whole face. I'll fix the whole face, and
not only ourself is blowing up lips. They're also shrinking
bank accounts. NFL prospect Laramie Tounsil should have been celebrating
being drafted into the NFL last night. Tons of was
projected to go at six to the Baltimore Ravens. Ended
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up falling That drop right there costs him about eight
million dollars in salary over the next four years. And
it's four the draft to open. A two year old
video posted to Tunsil's Twitter accounts showing him taking a
massive ball hit out of a gas mask. Come on,
how do you even know thats Laramie Tounsil. It could
be anyone. It could be a time traveling World War
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two soldier. Actually took days of investigative journalism to figure
out his identity. They had to go through the video
frame by frame, and they also helped that he took
his mask off and showed his face. Yo, if you're
recording yourself doing something illegal and you're already wearing a mask,
just leave it on. That's what masks a four. Also,
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why does the NFL even care if play a small pod? Oh?
Oh wait, I get it, because marijuana could cause brain damage,
and brain damage is triguet by the NFL. But hey,
at least Tonsill was just doing something stupid and not dangerous,
like snapchatting or driving. A new lawsuit filed against snapchat
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an eighteen year old Crystal McGhee. Snapchat has a feature
called a speed overlay filter, and it measures how fast
uses are moving while they are taking a photo or video.
A man is suing the social media giant, claiming that
an eighteen year old rope more than one hundred miles
an hour and crashed into his car while she was
using the app. Snapchat used to be about dick pis okay.
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Now you're encouraging people to take selfies or speeding. I
never thought i'd say this, but Snapchat I like you
do when you want to sending me dicks. Right and well,
at least this woman is okay and she learned a lesson. Right,
but even the crash didn't stop McGhee from snapchatting. Attorney
Saint McGhee sent out this selfie strapped to a gurney.
She types lucky to be alive. She sent a snapchat
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right after sending a snapchat nearly killed her. That's like
having an allergic reaction to shellfish and then on the
way to the hospital swinging by Red Lobster for the
Seafoo trio. Right. Also, what adamantium phone case are you using?
Like your car gets totaled and somehow your fulle magically survived. Meanwhile,
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my phone shadows if I drop it on a pillow. Unfortunately,
selfie's I'm just addictive. According to some people, they are
God given right. A South Carolina man learned the hard
way that trying to take a selfie with Amy Schumer
is no laughing matter. The comedian says that she was
scared when this man ran up to her and started
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reading video. This is America, I said, in America, when
you see a celebrity, you go and take a selfie.
This is America. Then you said it like it's in
the constitution. Listen, nowhere does this say we hold these
truths to be selfie evident. Look, when we see famous people,
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we all want to take a selfie of them, right.
I want to take a selfie of travel right now,
So I could get a ton of lights, all right,
Not as many lights as if I took it with
Amy Schumer, but hey, still a lot, all right. But
you know what, I resist the urge. That's what being
human is about resisting your base impulses. All right, That's
why I'm not humping this desk right now, So go
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ahead and keep taking selfies. Just understand it's a time
and a place, all right, And everyone else stop acting
like narcissism is just a millennial thing. Okay, old people,
you would have done the exact same if you had
access to the technology. What's we're taking two seconds the
snap of selfie or spending six months painting yourself now?
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I mean, look, look how easy is to just do
one of these? Look I thought you said you were't
gonna take us out. What are you doing and take
a selfie? Yep? I also said I wasn't gonna hump
the death. But you know what you gotta do what
you gotta doing, all right, So you got all right?
Thank you ny trying. Everyone. You may or may not
have heard of black twitter who, but it's huge And
(23:26):
if you want to understand it, imagine the barbershop. I
know what you're thinking, that's the barbershop. I'm a black dude.
We're about to do all the usual stuff. The bron
James dunt don't fire cripple kids, Shut your ass up,
bulet Man Blue Let the boys they got no daddy,
markis you gotta daddy? And look you look. For decades,
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the black barbershop has been the epicenter of black cultural discussion.
But the Internet has changed things. Let me introduce you
to black Twitter. Black Twitter is an entire I think
that that I think we need somebody more qualified. Let's
go with Jimmy Little Mule, executive writer and most importantly
black person. Jimmy. What is black Twitter? It's just really
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an extension of how we communicate in our neighborhoods and
our barbershops, and our churches and our schools. It is
our village. Think of black Twitter as Harlem black folks
made it cool and a white people trying to move
in what we do on social media, And of course
we over index and we use it more than anybody else,
and we use it on mobile, which means we have it,
you know, by our sides, twenty four hours a day.
That's right. While we make up just twelve of the
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US population of American Twitter users are black, and they're
three times more likely to post daily on Twitter than
white people. But that's not the only reason black Twitter
is important. And if anybody can back it up. It's
a brother wearing a hoodie, and I can go Ellen
James White. One of the major parts of of quote
unquote black Twitter is the ability to force a conversation
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that otherwise would be ignored. Hashtag oscar so White made
the oscars more black. You got fergus Black Lives Matter,
Bring back our Girls, Ferguson. When it first happened, Mike
Brown getting shot, I knew about that before it hit
the news because I was seeing tweets from St. St.
Louis and Ferguson that his body hadn't been picked up yet.
Movements that once took weeks to mobileizes can come together
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in mere hours. Jorge Zimmerman, I believe would not have
been arrested or tried at all. We're not for black Twitter.
People love to say, oh, if Dr King had Twitter,
he would have got more accomplished wood he How do
you know he would have just been up all night
arguing with trolls. Mardn come to bed corrected. I can't.
Malcolm X still popping off at the mouth. I snatched
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the boat tie off his ask. Black twitter is just
as complicated and nuanced as the black community itself. Like
within black Twitter, you still have an intellectual Twitter, you
have academics, and you have hotep Twitter. Everybody don't like
to be called a hotep. According to the Route, a
hotep is a clueless parody of afrocentricity, someone who's loudly,
conspicuously and obnoxiously pro black. But I think that's a
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little harsh. I prefer to call these brothers black and through.
That's why we gotta be black, do black, shot by black,
date black, smoke black. And of course you've got the
bay Hive. One of them twins ain't even jay Z's
who's talking about Beyonce. No Beyonce slander Chow survived. She
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represents joy for so many people, particularly black women. She's
on the wall with Martin Malcolm Barrock. Black Twitter is
also the place to keep up with the latest fashion, music,
and racial slurs. I have been called every type of
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on the planet r R. It's types of because I
didn't know existing until I got called them on Twitter.
Anybody can get it on black Twitter, even if you're
in the NFL Hall of Fame. Just ask Jerry Rice,
who thought it was all good to wear fried chicken
helmet in a Popeye's commercial. I don't think there's every
excuse for a chicken helmet. You decided to put on
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the chicken helmet, that's between you and your guys. Sometimes
people need to be shaped. Black Twitter has no qualms
about calling anybody out. This is live footage of Jerry
right to getting drugs on black Twitter. And it's not
just people. Corporations try to be too cool and they
get on the wrong side of black Twitter all the
time by doing things like using black sling to sell pancakes.
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Nine Hof is one of those brands. It's just done weird,
like pancakes on fleek, Hey, cake man, pancakes on fleep,
Like you just don't throw on fleek behind something and
call that, you know, engaging with the culture. Here's the
general rule of thumb to all corporations. If you wouldn't
say it to a black person's face, don't tweet it,
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boy boyah, retweet to win. I'm saying just black Twitter
challenges spaces of power in a way that we haven't
seen before. Black experience in America is diverse, but more importantly,
it's vocal. So if you're wondering how to find black Twitter,
it's probably not for you. They should just give us Twitter.
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We have appropriated Twitter. This is the first thing that
black people have effectively appropriated and made our own. As
long as black Twitters, they're the fight for justice has
got a bit easier. There's my money, I know where
you were. Ok. Yeah, social media, it's affected every aspect
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of our lives, how we communicate, how we stay informed,
how we showcase our booty clapping skills. Uh yeah, I
used to. I used to make homemade DVDs to get
that out. Now it's so much easier. But lately, but lately,
conservatives have been complaining that tech companies are biased against them,
and yesterday they took action. In real life, the Justice
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Department is looking at whether Facebook and Twitter are intentionally
stifling the free extra age of ideas. Twitter CEO Jack
Dorsey told a House committee his company is not censoring conservatives.
Jeff Sessions double down and says he'll gather state attorneys
general to discuss whether social media companies stifle conservatives. That's right.
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Jeff Sessions has announced that he's going to look high
and low, mostly low, to find out if social media
companies are censoring conservatives. Yeah, he's probably gonna come back like, well,
I couldn't find any bias, Like did you check the
top self? No? And now now, the reason the Justice
departments and both Houses are all over this issue is
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because clearly they're taking cues from the top. You look
at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media giants, and
I've made it clear that we as a country cannot
tolerate political censorship, blacklisting, and ragged search results. We will
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not let large corporate action silence conservative voices. That's right, folks.
I Donald J. Trump and sick of being silenced. When
was the last time you saw a tweet of mine?
When was the last time you saw something about me
on the internet? Folks? It's been almost half an hour.
Why is that? Is it because I've been up here
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for thirty minutes or because I've been fine? It goes
a thing sets, Come on, get the out of here. Man.
How is the guy who became president because of Twitter
claiming that Twitter is censoring him and out to get him? Yeah,
like the outer to get him elected. It's like Superman
bitching about Earth, like, man, this planet is holding me back.
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It's like, no, this planet is what made you. If
you don't like it, Superman. I want to just go
home and be called hell the accountant. Oh that's right,
you can't go home because your home blew up. Sorry,
I get angry when Superman shoots on Earth Man. But
but maybe maybe the president feels like conservators are being
censored because his only source of information keeps telling him.
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So the tech giants are obviously politically biased against conservatives.
No one really disputes that you cannot have them dominating
the information space only on behalf of left wingers. Sometimes
when you search my name, certain articles will pop up
that are more disparaging and more negative, and for you know,
three or four years ago, instead of anything current. Okay, now,
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to be fair, I understand what the stale prince of
Bellet is saying. Sometimes sometimes Google prioritizes older negative stories.
But that's not anti conservative bias, that's just the internet, right.
The negative stories get much more attention than the positive ones.
Like when I google myself, the news is never about
some cool joke that I told. No, it's always something negative.
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And I tell cool jokes all the time, all right,
You never hear about the good stuff. For example, For example,
right today, I saved this baby on the way to work.
But are you gonna see that first page of my
Google soarch results? No? But if I do this, if
I do this, but I do this number one news
story on Google News. And I'm not even a comedian anymore,
all of a sudden, I'm just a South African baby slam.
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That's who I am. The Internet is cool to everyone, everyone,
But according to many people on Fox News, the only
explanation for this is bias. I tweeted out a clip
from CNN of James Clapper basically admitting that President Obama
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was the one who directed all of the intelligence agencies
UM at the at the end of to launch an
investigation uh into President Trump. So I tweeted out, it
got no life. It got no life, And I know
that's something that my followers and viewers care about big time.
It got no left. So I'm just wondering, was I
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shadow band? No? No, Maria Bromo, you're host, was just boring.
And I'm not even saying that to be mean. We've
all been there. Every one of us has posted something
online that we were sure it was going to break
the internet. Right. All of us had that one tweet
where we were like, oh man, this twoe is gonna
blow up. This tree is gonna blow up, and you're like,
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should I said, no, not yet, not yet. Oh man,
this tree has gone. Oh wait, look hold on, hold on, hey,
cancel all my meetings. I'm about to go viral. And
then you're like and then you hit sent and then
you're looking and you're like, come on any time now, anytime? Alright,
no likes refreshed, hold on, no likes, okay, hold on?
Hold is the WiFi working? No WiFi? Okay, I'll just
like it myself and get it started. There you go, alright,
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one like it happens to all of us. And look,
I'm not saying there should be no regulation of tech companies,
don't get me wrong. I just I'm just surprised to
see conservatives all of a sudden in favor of your
regulating private businesses. Right because when it's consumers or gay
people or polar bears saying, hey, can you regulate some industries,
conservatives are like, it's not the government's joel to regulate
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private business. But then as soon as they feel like
they're not getting enough retweets, suddenly it's like we're launching
an investigation. We've got a nationalized tech companies, Long Lift,
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