I have to wonder if this is the real reason behind aggressive region locking? Conspiracy time, if the normies ever properly found out this is how they got fed different bits of information they probably wouldn't trust the media and big tech quite as much. Same goes for if they learned about all the back end shenanigans regularly going on because it was very telling how when Elon Musk took over mass shootings suddenly got taken off the trending pages and data was being represented more accurately. This is one of the real reasons all the usual suspects got big mad at Elon for allowing anime to trend instead since no one wants to be constantly depressed when they look at stuff online, shocker I know.
Altering classics, removing legacy editions, and region locking content ensures that normies in the West are only fed what the establishment want them to consume.
Oh I should be clear, strangely, they never did have a freakout over anime over making it's way to the trending pages. However you could tell they were mad 'their' stories of never ending mass shootings and other depression laden material weren't making the cut which shows you how heavily skewed the whole thing was. That was a pretty big eye opener. We all suspected they did this in the background, but that was proof positive of this being the case.
I have to wonder if this is the real reason behind aggressive region locking? Conspiracy time, if the normies ever properly found out this is how they got fed different bits of information they probably wouldn't trust the media and big tech quite as much. Same goes for if they learned about all the back end shenanigans regularly going on because it was very telling how when Elon Musk took over mass shootings suddenly got taken off the trending pages and data was being represented more accurately. This is one of the real reasons all the usual suspects got big mad at Elon for allowing anime to trend instead since no one wants to be constantly depressed when they look at stuff online, shocker I know.
Absolutely on the money. Not even a conspiracy theory, just a conspiracy fact.
It's the same reason they have been removing, banning, or completely altering the old media for "modern audiences".
We've seen it take place in the gaming world already with all the endless remasters removing/changing content, or legacy versions being outright replaced: https://www.fanbyte.com/trending/warcraft-3-classic-owners-are-forced-to-download-reforged-instead
Classic comic books being altered from their original print to censor "uncomfortable" content: https://imgur.com/a/jA6Ntaf
https://bleedingcool.com/comics/walmart-dc-comics-censored-michael-turner-supergirl-wonder-woman/
In movies they're trying to make sure only the "modern", censored version is available digitally: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/06/magazine/the-french-connection-edit-racial-slur.html
Altering classics, removing legacy editions, and region locking content ensures that normies in the West are only fed what the establishment want them to consume.
Tfw we get Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World for our future
Wow did another fake two minutes of outrage really happen over anime?
no, they were mad that he took the thumb off the scale and allowed what people actually talked about to trend instead of their faggot noise.
Oh I should be clear, strangely, they never did have a freakout over anime over making it's way to the trending pages. However you could tell they were mad 'their' stories of never ending mass shootings and other depression laden material weren't making the cut which shows you how heavily skewed the whole thing was. That was a pretty big eye opener. We all suspected they did this in the background, but that was proof positive of this being the case.