Hello, @minismallholding
Yes, it's unfortunate that some content creators, seeking to maximize their earnings on social media, try to exploit the algorithms with controversial, even immoral, material. Who is to blame for this? We could attack the pure algorithm and its creators, but where is the audience's morbid curiosity?
Of course, as you point out when referring to your community of climbers, there is sometimes a dissonance between the virtual and the real. I understand that there is no gender discrimination against women, as some people portray on social media.
I can understand the rational and cold-blooded act of wanting to exploit the algorithms that reward certain agendas, but I don't justify it, because it is detrimental to truth and human dignity.
In a way, these behaviors generate fake news, and I wonder: Why, and who does it benefit?
In a way, this is the tip of the iceberg. They want us to be fools by dint of our diminished attention span, a product of scrolling through so much toxic and fleeting content that it's based on exploiting the instinctual in human beings, unleashing emotions without first filtering them through calm, critical thinking.
What will all this lead to? I don't believe in a generational conflagration: X versus millennials and traumatized alphas. No. I hope that at the end of the road, common sense, good manners, and kindness will prevail over so much ineptitude and idiocy planned by a few who want to enrich themselves at the expense of the majority.
Greetings.