Destined for clicks: YouTube is driving an astrology boom in Pakistan. (restofworld.org)
from 101@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 15:39
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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 16:32 next collapse

Sure, that’s definitely a country that needs more wishy washy magic crap on top of all their current issues.

CodexArcanum@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 17:55 next collapse

People in times of desperate oppression and violence rarely turn to the uncaring vastness of the chaotic universe for comfort.

something_random_tho@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 20:04 collapse

Sounds like something a Scorpio would say…

NOT_RICK@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 2024 17:15 next collapse

I’d bet islamists hate this kind of “fortune telling”. I wonder if that will create any problems down the road.

Edit: yup, Islamists mad

The rise of the YouTube astrologers has caused consternation among Islamic scholars and clerics who call the practice heterodox or even a form of shirk, or idolatry, in which predictions about the future are seen as claims to God’s omniscience.

lurch@sh.itjust.works on 17 Sep 2024 17:34 next collapse

When i was saying youtube is cancer, i didn’t mean the zodiac sign.

Blackout@fedia.io on 17 Sep 2024 20:09 collapse

Thanks to YouTube I am now a Zoroastrian. That algorithm just knows me