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Any videos with "thirst traps" (as the article put it) gets a hard pass by me. I don't even bother anymore - I'm so tuned out from Instagram it's not even funny. I'm amazed at how effective it is at luring others in.

>>deafpo+(OP)
Peer pressure made me create IG account. Scrapped it after 4 years. Every uploaded byte of data, every character typed there, every second spent there was sucked out of me by attention vampires. It's such an emotional and time sucking hellhole. Increasingly I feel the same about my resourced spent on Reddit.

>>deafpo+(OP)
>I'm amazed at how effective it is at luring others in.

are you really? It's a very simple exploit of raw human urges. And the amount of push-back against eroticism in society makes it all that more desirable to seek that forbidden fruit when presented.

Combine that with the internet where you can make your own persona (or simply lurk, unbeknownst to any and everyone except the algrithm overlords) and eliminate any social risk and you got a recipe for drawing in almost anyone.

>>johnny+ZZ
"Wait, that actually works on people?" is one of the more common hallmarks of the asexual experience. I always knew that sex sells but the extent to which it does is surprising to those of us that don't experience it. A whole other world. Especially for the segment of the space that are repulsed due to medical issues or difficult past experiences. The struggling religious segment probably gets it.