Oh man, and here I thought it meant Get Fauci’d Yesterday.
Spelled out, IME, more than you might think. Abbreviated, this 72 year old woman had to think about it for a minute.
Seconded. 74 yo woman.
First I had to suss out that it wasn’t GTA: Grand Theft Auto.
Apparently the Covid vacvine causes people to tell other people to GFY.
These gift links are only valid for 14 days and so many views. I’ll try again but no guarantees. And I’ll throw in another gift link.
@Dr_Paprika , was this the thread in which you intended to post those links?
No. Thanks for letting me know.
It is quite concerning that for example this happens
https://old.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1fc9tpq/john_campbell_released_an_incredible_video_on_how/
Some quacky John Campbell gets thousands of likes, while the funk debunker gets less then 50. Also, if you read the comments, you’ll get that most are for Campbell. Maybe they’re shills, or just super-fanatics, but the education campaign is kinda failing. Why extort effort learning when you can just repeat same conspiracies again and again? Similarly, their youtubes views are totally incomparable. Like wow, studying medicine for many years, researching stuff, preparing content, and still getting outnumbered by a literal grifting grey-haired quacky boy. Yikes!
Xitter upvotes is not a peer reviewed study. Upvotes can be (and are) amplified by bots and trolls.
This feature of human nature has been remarked on by wise pundits for thousands of years. The only thing different today is the scale & speed. Rumor that used to flood an entire village in hours, now floods the entire world in minutes.
And since it’s now easier to monetize rumor-starting, we get more of them per capita. But folks have always loved to pass along a juicy rumor. And even merely “like”-ing something online amounts to passing it on by increasing its prominence / likelihood to be shown to subsequent visitors.