Manufactured Outrage

[Elky Welky]

I’ve been giving lots of thought recently to the concept of manufactured outrage, a loosely defined term that I would say means overhyping a small (often non-) issue as a means to provoke. Our current political climate is one thing, but it leaks into so many areas of public life, most recently with all the stupid discourse surrounding Sydney Sweeney. I could not care less, yet suddenly my social media feed won’t stop dumping a whole lot of articles going back and forth over nothing.

There’s certainly plenty of real outrage in the hunting space over the myriad of issues we face—as other threads demonstrate. But just for fun, what do folks here feel are manufactured issues and divisions across hunting that, at the end of the day, are meaningless?

Please keep it civil.

 

[thomas89]

Need to see Sydney Sweeney pics to give an accurate opinion.

For research of course

It is really an interesting observation. Even to say one doesn’t care and couldn’t care less about X, Y, Z issue is met with real contempt one way or the other.

 

[Robert N]

Dumped Facebook, Insta, never bothered with TikTok or any of that garbage.

My life so much more peaceful now than before.

HuntTalk is about as social media as I get anymore…

 

[Southern Elk]

I like to call it Faux Outrage. I see a lot of it from both political parties. I don’t know anything about the latest outrage about Ms. Sweeney.

 

[Irrelevant]

The Sophia Cunningham brew haha was totally manufactured outrage.

How much of those online "articles" are foreign actors simply trying to sow domestic discontent?

 

[the nikster]

Lots of things come to mind, both recent and dated.
Janet Reno and her jack-booted thugs were gonna take our guns…
Rescinding R-v-W was gonna leave thousands dying in the streets…
Fukushima was gonna kill the entire food pyramid…
Oil pipelines were all going to rupture…
Trump = WWIII…
Some had more merit than others, some may have actually had some morsel of truth.
To my mind they were, by and large, much ado.

 

[Forkyfinder]

Much of what you see on the news.

Ive come to the understanding you're better off watching a half hour each of bias news than to find an hour of honest news. Ecception being local.

 

[El Jason]

Montana mule deer threads.

 

[DFS]

What caliber of bullet people choose to shoot.

 

[HappyCamper]

Fixed or mechanical, FOC, and really anything archery related people find ways to argue about…

 

[rookieforever33]

Appreciate that everyone recognizes hyie for the sake of hype. It is easy to see that most people are happy to be distracted, and otgers are happy to hype nonsense to try and keep peoples attention. I think we need to stay on topic on this thread though. So where are the Sydney Sweeny pics we were talking about?

 

[Mallardsx2]

Dumped Facebook, Insta, never bothered with TikTok or any of that garbage.

My life so much more peaceful now than before.

HuntTalk is about as social media as I get anymore…

All good. You should be able to find all of the liberal news here that you are missing from those sites. lol

 

[Wildabeest]

Crossbows.

 

[NR_Hunter]

I’ve been giving lots of thought recently to the concept of manufactured outrage, a loosely defined term that I would say means overhyping a small (often non-) issue as a means to provoke. Our current political climate is one thing, but it leaks into so many areas of public life, most recently with all the stupid discourse surrounding Sydney Sweeney. I could not care less, yet suddenly my social media feed won’t stop dumping a whole lot of articles going back and forth over nothing.

There’s certainly plenty of real outrage in the hunting space over the myriad of issues we face—as other threads demonstrate. But just for fun, what do folks here feel are manufactured issues and divisions across hunting that, at the end of the day, are meaningless?

Please keep it civil.

I never get Sydney Sweeney or various other babes in my algorithm because my algorithm thinks I’m gay. The only time my algorithm shows me women is when they are seething with jealously about something, which gay men seem to find absolutely delicious. Or so I’ve heard.

 

[cgasner1]

Crossbows.

I never get Sydney Sweeney or various other babes in my algorithm because my algorithm thinks I’m gay. The only time my algorithm shows me women is when they are seething with jealously about something, which gay men seem to find absolutely delicious. Or so I’ve heard.

I feel like someone has 2 accounts and forgot to sign out of one

 

[NR_Hunter]

The Sophia Cunningham brew haha was totally manufactured outrage.

How much of those online "articles" are foreign actors simply trying to sow domestic discontent?

I know so much about the WNBA now, but not one thing that’s been basketball related.

Also, yes, Tenet Media was funneling money to influencers from Russia. I wonder what percentage of online interaction are adjust Chinese and Russian bots.

 

[NR_Hunter]

I feel like someone has 2 accounts and forgot to sign out of one

I just bought a cameo for my buddy’s birthday. He’s a cross bow guy. I got the Ugandan “why are you gay?” Guy to tell my buddy he’s gay for crossbow hunting. $50 and worth every penny

 

[Wyomufhunter]

I guess the latest is Ella Langley. She posted a bunch of hunting pictures with her and deer she shot.... makes me like her even more. But, some libs and anti-hunters are having a field day with it.

 

[Brian in Montana]

Years ago I got onto Facebook to reconnect with friends from college, and family, who are spread all over the country. But it seems like lately "the news feed" is what really dominates. I'm sure fed the algorithm by clicking on an article here and there. But my goodness has it all gotten so toxic - whether it's Sydney Sweeney or Karmelo Anthony or Sophie Cunningham or who/whatever.

I realized most of my family and old friends don't even post about their lives and kids anymore and I just decided to drop it. I took FB off my phone a couple months ago and I'm happier for it. My crappy old Android phone doesn't really have the space for it anyway.

 

[Hem]

Ella, Sophie, Sydney.
In that order.