The same community the paraded the boycott turned around and upvoted people buying nvidia. Even if the same people who were pro-boycott weren’t the ones posting their purchases, the community as a whole acted with a goldfish hivemind.
The “No one else is going to sacrifice, why should I?” mentality is precisely what enables this enshittification.
You’re missing the point, it’s not one unified community, it’s lots of people with differing opinions about a common interest. I doubt either of us can be bothered to sift through hundreds of users post history but I doubt anyone calling for boycotts also posted their new GPUs.
No it isn’t a unified community. But how can the upvote ratio of 5:2 for Nvidia boycott also make sense in the same community a few months later where “I just bought an RTX 4090 TI” is around 7:2.
No, everyone isn’t an actual hivemind, but the likelyhood that every single person who updooted “New RTX card :)” posts didn’t updoot “Boycott nuhvideo :(” posts is ludicrous.
The community as a whole didnt act at all, 2 completely different sections of the community acted in directly opposing manners within 3 months of each other.
The boycott posts are filled with “who cares” comments, and the bragging posts are filled with “bad purchase” comments.
No as a whole they didn’t, but there is NO WAY every single person who upvoted “Boycott Nvidia” posts didn’t upvote “I just bought an RTX card” posts.
Sure yeah, some people may not have flipflopped. But given how many upvotes both types of posts got months apart in the same community, the more likely explanation is a community of weak willed people who gave in to FOMO, decided to memory hole their boycott.
So, youre just blindly making up guesses because they fit your already preset opinion of that community?
In that case, Im pretty sure you made all of those boycott posts, as well as the new purchase ones. You just made a bunch of accounts for each, and then paid a botting service to upvote them.
Sure, maybe some of the posts or votes were genuine. But the majority were just your sockpuppets.
The same community the paraded the boycott turned around and upvoted people buying nvidia. Even if the same people who were pro-boycott weren’t the ones posting their purchases, the community as a whole acted with a goldfish hivemind.
The “No one else is going to sacrifice, why should I?” mentality is precisely what enables this enshittification.
You’re missing the point, it’s not one unified community, it’s lots of people with differing opinions about a common interest. I doubt either of us can be bothered to sift through hundreds of users post history but I doubt anyone calling for boycotts also posted their new GPUs.
No it isn’t a unified community. But how can the upvote ratio of 5:2 for Nvidia boycott also make sense in the same community a few months later where “I just bought an RTX 4090 TI” is around 7:2.
No, everyone isn’t an actual hivemind, but the likelyhood that every single person who updooted “New RTX card :)” posts didn’t updoot “Boycott nuhvideo :(” posts is ludicrous.
The community as a whole didnt act at all, 2 completely different sections of the community acted in directly opposing manners within 3 months of each other.
The boycott posts are filled with “who cares” comments, and the bragging posts are filled with “bad purchase” comments.
No as a whole they didn’t, but there is NO WAY every single person who upvoted “Boycott Nvidia” posts didn’t upvote “I just bought an RTX card” posts.
Sure yeah, some people may not have flipflopped. But given how many upvotes both types of posts got months apart in the same community, the more likely explanation is a community of weak willed people who gave in to FOMO, decided to memory hole their boycott.
So, youre just blindly making up guesses because they fit your already preset opinion of that community?
In that case, Im pretty sure you made all of those boycott posts, as well as the new purchase ones. You just made a bunch of accounts for each, and then paid a botting service to upvote them.
Sure, maybe some of the posts or votes were genuine. But the majority were just your sockpuppets.