Alexandr Korol

And since these people were nobodies and had never occupied themselves with
anything, they invented themselves out of thin air right there, on the spot, online:
they invented that they’re specialists in something, or somebody, so as to sell at
least something, palm it off on people and earn money. And this jumped very
actively, sharply at the moment of the pandemic, when all people — even those
who didn’t want to, or maybe weren’t in a hurry, who needed some time to cross
over there, to social media, to somehow begin using it — because everyone ended
up at home, in the pandemic, in restriction, even those from whom we maybe
didn’t expect that they’d be on social media, appeared there. That is, everyone
came there: those who were invited and those who, as they say, weren’t invited.
Right now, on social media, you can almost never find, almost never see, talented,
creative, real people. Right now, on social media, you can’t find people who seek
freedom there, as it was before. Not because they aren’t on social media, but
because they’ve been eclipsed by others — impostors, upstarts.

And now for the most interesting thing. There’s, as it were, a worm, a virus,
a code. I’ll call it the dark algorithm. I have many treatises, all sorts of little
books, and notes about what an algorithm is and why it’s important: a certain
sequence of actions that you do can influence your frequency of vibrations, and
from this you connect to a different, let’s say, Wi-Fi point. And so it turns out
that right now, on social media, people adapt themselves to algorithms, to set
trends. That is, before, fifteen years ago, a girl loves to draw penguins — and
she publishes pictures of penguins. A girl loves to photograph elderly people —
and posts photographs of elderly people. Before, it was that way. Now all these
people have lost their will, their personality, themselves, their soul, their heart
because of trends. Now people do what everyone does, repeating it identically,
because only this will please everyone, only this will attract an audience, and
everyone needs an audience. And this is a problem. And so zombification is
precisely these algorithms. When every person — even a musician or performer
already — may, for the sake of a trend, repeat something, some action on
video. He thinks that it’s harmless and that he did nothing criminal, if there’s
nothing violent in this video, and so on. But from the fact that he repeated
what hundreds of millions of people repeated, he connects to this Wi-Fi of
hundreds of millions of people, where people grow stupid and get zombified.