Time to flush out my brain!
YouTube abounds with, er, “sightings” of extinct prehistoric animals… among them, the giant ground sloth. Several species of these populated North and South America. We don’t know why they went extinct, but we do know they’re not here anymore. Or do we?
I admit to a lifelong fascination with prehistoric creatures, and I would dearly love some of these goofy YouTube stories to be true. I can’t help reading unproved claims of giant sloths stepping into tar-pits, etc., according to witnesses who can’t possibly be traced. And maybe you wind up wondering, “Gee, was King Kong’s island for real?”
Well, there’s no quality control on the Internet, and anybody who knows how to do it can put up a post on anything he or she might imagine.
And sometimes you need a little goofiness.
As much as I enjoy YouTube, it is a wasteland of clickbait, and the newest peril, AI generated videos that pretend to portray something real. I saw one, the other day, of a Pallas Cat wearing a backpack and riding on a subway. Ok, that’s pretty obviously pure fantasy, but as cute as it looked, I couldn’t quite bring myself to watch it.
If you want some real adventure, look into some of the videos regarding the crash of Air India flight 171. The various factions are quite at odds, and at times quite vociferous about those holding other opinions.
What’s the difference between clickbait and pure ignorance?
Intention. Clickbait is misleading advertising.