Anyone else noticed their parents over the last few years be more and more influenced by "youtube news" so to speak?

My dad is a really level headed kind and generally very progressive guy; I know I could come out as trans to him (I will eventually) and he would accept me even if he didn't fully understand it

And yet

The youtube algorithm targets him SO hard with right wing yt shorts. Shit like clips from the Joe Rogan podcast

And he buys into it

I think something about how personal these clips seem , how it's targeted, I don't know- it's just like the perfect storm to get him swayed that oh, maybe they're making some points

Until me or one of my sisters sit down and argue with him about it until he either goes "oh okay I was wrong" orrrrr, makes it clear were just gonna have different opinions on this

I just think it's very interesting. He had NONE of these viewpoints even under consideration until he started being on yt more frequently

It's such a fucking right wing gross rabbit hole

it's VERY easy to get radicalized by the youtube algorithm it's insane

For real!!!

Yeah absolutely my parents have gotten suckered in by the FB rabbit hole

My dad is a very smart guy but says shit like "Jordan Peterson is so intelligent I cannot even contend" and I'm like lol, lmao

The right is unfortunately very good at radicalizing bc they always start with a small opinion that most people can agree to and then build on it

Ahhhhh that's so true yuck it's so sinister