Mark is the stupid one here.

Spoilers etc for show only watchers. People get big mad over odd things.

Get a load of this guy not even understanding even the simplest fiat currency analogy.

Not offended, not all jokes are for all folks. It’s not a terribly deep joke, which does make the apparent lack of understanding it a bit worse. You should play Deus Ex, it’s a good game.

The joke is so far above your head that it is orbiting above you at an altitude of approximately 400 kilometers (about 250 miles) and travels at a speed of around 28,800 kilometers per hour (17,500 miles per hour), completing an orbit roughly every 92 minutes.

Anger does drive up engagement, but the point of engagement farming is supposed to be so that you keep coming back to the content (YT videos, articles, whatever) and therefore it gets more exposure so that the attached ads get more exposure.

The ads themselves designed to make you angry at them doesn’t seem to make sense, at least as a default practice. There’s really only hyperspecific niche scenarios where the ad itself making you angry at the ad is beneficial to the people paying for it.

That’s the craziest part isn’t it? All of this data collection so they can build profiles of us, and then they just don’t apply any of it to ads.

I don’t like watching ads, but it would at least be slightly more tolerable if I got ads for things I actually wanted. On my TV I watch YT unfortunately not adblocked, and never once have I seen an ad for anything that appeal to me.

BLOCKS YOUR PATH.

I think with The Matrix specifically it has to do with the physicality. Late 90s Will Smith was in shape and could do big, bombastic action, but I can’t imagine him doing precise martial arts moves without it looking like a comedy.

It is crazy how I always think of that movie as “early career Will Smith before he became famous quippy superstar” but it released between Men In Black and Wild Wild West.

I imagine him throwing some Bad Boys type energy into the lobby shootout.

It’s just an infinite number of Will Smiths eating an infinite amount of spaghetti.

Imagine the tie-in music video he would have done.

The Van Halen radiation belts rock too hard though.

Uhuhuh. What a wuss.