• slaacaa@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:

    1. Monke see comment

    2. Monke think same

    3. Dopamine released

    4. Click like button

    5. Monke happi

    Which of course happens similarly IRL, but it’s less cringe as it’s just a passing verbal comment, not captured and displayed on the web for all eternity.

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      7 months ago

      That’s just empathy though? Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and relating to what they thought at the time. You can infer a lot more than surface level description from someone repeating a specific line mentioned in a video.