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"i hope the leaving is joyful, & never to return"
- May 30, 2019
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Article first, my commentary after.
This story totally infuriated me when it happened, for one reason a lot of people did not see.
Suicide prevention algorithms watch users for speech and behavior that may be suicidal. Most ppl don't know, one of those behaviors is watching/listening to the same things over and over. Doesn't matter the subject, the algorithms scan for repetition.
This is very shitty, because there are many reasons why someone might do that, unrelated to suicide.
I do it for several reasons.
-I use it for comforting background noise to fall asleep or doing other tasks.
-My ptsd and anxiety often causes me to "tune out" my entertainment and think of horrible memories. It's basically a competition in my head all the time between trying to focus on uplifting entertainment or horrible memories. So I often repeat shows because I miss half of it the first few tries due to all the shit happening in my head.
-I am not a typical low-I.Q. viewer, and human drama largely just irritates me, so it is very hard for me to find entertainment that doesn't annoy me with it's stupidity or melodrama. On the rare occasions when I do find something I really love, I cherish it so much that I watch it over and over, until it enters the category of "comforting background noise.
None of those are about my suicidality. They are just self-soothing. But a stupid fucking algorithm doesn't know that.
When the linked article was first published I scanned the comments about it on different sites. There were some, not many but enough, comments on various sites about this story, from people trying to defend netflix monitoring of user habits. Basically,
"I was really depressed and suicidal once so I watched the same movie on repeat because I was too sad to pick a new one, and netflix called to check on me and make sure I was ok, it made me feel so much better to know netflix *really cares*, so I think their surveillance of users is a good thing."
At the time I suspected they were posted by netflix employees, trying to do damage-control for how bad they fucked up with their Twitter bullying of users. But whether they were real comments or not, they only made me even angrier.
If netflix's algorithm thinks people who view movies on repeat are suicidal, THEN WHY DID THEY BULLY PEOPLE ON TWITTER WHO MEET THAT CRITERIA???
And continue being so nasty whenever twitter users called them out for it?
Curious about your thoughts.
BONUS: when this story happened I tried to discuss all this with my cunty shrink, But I couldn't get any further than just show her the article, because she then proceeded to spend the rest of the hour laughing her ass off because she thought it was *so funny* that Netflix bullies it's users. She always thought bullying was hilarious.
This is the kind of feedback I get from every mental-health cunt I speak to. And the stupid nasty cunts wonder why I'm suicidal.
Netflix calls out 53 'Christmas Prince' viewers and Twitter claps back
Social media clapped back at Netflix Sunday after the online movie streaming company called out 53 people for watching a sappy Christmas comedy.
www.usatoday.com
This story totally infuriated me when it happened, for one reason a lot of people did not see.
Suicide prevention algorithms watch users for speech and behavior that may be suicidal. Most ppl don't know, one of those behaviors is watching/listening to the same things over and over. Doesn't matter the subject, the algorithms scan for repetition.
This is very shitty, because there are many reasons why someone might do that, unrelated to suicide.
I do it for several reasons.
-I use it for comforting background noise to fall asleep or doing other tasks.
-My ptsd and anxiety often causes me to "tune out" my entertainment and think of horrible memories. It's basically a competition in my head all the time between trying to focus on uplifting entertainment or horrible memories. So I often repeat shows because I miss half of it the first few tries due to all the shit happening in my head.
-I am not a typical low-I.Q. viewer, and human drama largely just irritates me, so it is very hard for me to find entertainment that doesn't annoy me with it's stupidity or melodrama. On the rare occasions when I do find something I really love, I cherish it so much that I watch it over and over, until it enters the category of "comforting background noise.
None of those are about my suicidality. They are just self-soothing. But a stupid fucking algorithm doesn't know that.
When the linked article was first published I scanned the comments about it on different sites. There were some, not many but enough, comments on various sites about this story, from people trying to defend netflix monitoring of user habits. Basically,
"I was really depressed and suicidal once so I watched the same movie on repeat because I was too sad to pick a new one, and netflix called to check on me and make sure I was ok, it made me feel so much better to know netflix *really cares*, so I think their surveillance of users is a good thing."
At the time I suspected they were posted by netflix employees, trying to do damage-control for how bad they fucked up with their Twitter bullying of users. But whether they were real comments or not, they only made me even angrier.
If netflix's algorithm thinks people who view movies on repeat are suicidal, THEN WHY DID THEY BULLY PEOPLE ON TWITTER WHO MEET THAT CRITERIA???
And continue being so nasty whenever twitter users called them out for it?
Curious about your thoughts.
BONUS: when this story happened I tried to discuss all this with my cunty shrink, But I couldn't get any further than just show her the article, because she then proceeded to spend the rest of the hour laughing her ass off because she thought it was *so funny* that Netflix bullies it's users. She always thought bullying was hilarious.
This is the kind of feedback I get from every mental-health cunt I speak to. And the stupid nasty cunts wonder why I'm suicidal.
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