INFLUENCER INSANITY EP 5 | “Rage Baiting” and why influencers are intentionally making you mad

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Back when I was a child on the Internet in the 2000s, there was a saying, "Don't feed the trolls." I think we've forgotten that piece of wisdom.

Any rage baiting videos that waste food and ingredients to make food, should be banned for eternity across all platforms.

OK. That "my toddler wanted to color so I made some paper" is some Kauffman level, hilarious trolling. That woman is a genius.

what I love about your channel is I can be mad about the internet without engaging with the people who make me mad on the internet.

Game ads use rage bait as well. They make it look like someone is finding an easy puzzle difficult. This makes people think "ugh I could do that easily!" And they download the app.

Please cover fitness influencers and their lies about "getting toned in 7 days" and exercises that will "snatch your waist." SO many people do not understand that these are lies.

"Is the coffee in the room with us" had me laughing for real

Every time I feel the urge to be angry at a creator, I report the video, and block said creator. I have known long before social media that you cannot explain something that should be understood by default. So, I either scroll by, or if it's especially awful - report/block

I think 5 minute crafts started this - remember their videos on Facebook? People rage-shared them EVERYWHERE and it came to a point where we realized they must be doing this on purpose.

I think "making mistakes deliberately" is another example for the subtle version of this. Misspellings in instagram posts, verbal errors in videos etc.

I love that smug lady. She looks like she is putting actual effort into her videos--and not wasting food or doing anything dangerous.

We scoff at how older people can't tell they are being scammed by emails and callers. But younger people are definitely unable to tell which content is real and which is fake. We automatically believe anything on social media, and think we could never fall for it. But with rage bait, clickbait, AI, etc. It's clear we can't tell the difference.

People need to learn how to simply not engage. the sooner we all learn to just ignore this kind of content, the sooner they'll ACTUALLY disappear.

Ads for games also do rage bating by purposefully messing up the game almost gets me every time. I’ve almost downloaded games just to do better than the ad 😂

It's not surprising that this is becoming the norm. There is a reason that news outlets cover mostly negative news. It gets 2 to 3 × the views. Creators getting called out for wasteful, thoughtless, and obnoxious behavior is all good, AND we should ask ourselves why we as a society crave anger and negativity so much. I swear we're a bunch of adrenaline and cortisol addicts!

The scary ones for me are the people posting 'cleaning' content where they put like 50 cleaning products in their toilets, often mixing bleach and ammonia which creates a toxic gas. Like, yeah they're probably not actually using those chemicals, but someone else emulating them (either for ragebait content or to actually clean) could cause serious harm or death.

The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference. Ignoring ragebaiting influencers is the best thing to do to so that their channels suffer.

The algorithm picked this video for me and it was very smart.😂 I've been noticing more people pushing. "Please engage in the comments" in their videos and also noticing people saying "oh viewers are picking on me because they think I'm ugly"or "they don't like my current content so I'm going to change it". But what they really seem to want is for us to comment and go, " No, you're doing the right thing, we love you" so rage baiting doesn't even have to be as obvious as what you showed. It is even more subtle.

It's the wastefulness for me. I don't care how you stock your minifridge or whatever but making something to immediately throw it away is enraging. I wish there was a way to report these videos on social media. If people stop watching it, there's no point in making the content, right? I love this influencer madness series, Hannah. It's a crazy world out there on the internet.