The Cult of the Amateur | Andrew Keen | Talks at Google

Absolutely. Most of the content on these subs seems to come from freelancers & students. And like most of Reddit, * cough * r/relationshipadvice, you get well meaning people parroting popular comments they’ve seen in the past. Regardless of their understanding of what they’re replying to. — There’s an author named Andrew Keen who wrote “Cult of the Amateur”. He’s sort of a snob but makes great points about social media. Keen asserts that the ratio of professionals/amateurs on social media is so low that most content is low quality. And b/c most users are amateurs, they’re more likely to engage & share low quality content b/c that’s what they understand. For the coding subs you see…

Yes. Andrew Keen coined the term “cult of the amateur” back in 2007. The idea being the internet empowers unqualified people w/ lots of info. You see these “armchair” experts _all over_ social media. It goes hand in had w/ the Dunning Krueger effect you described: >The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon by which those least competent in a certain subject area overestimate their skills the most. It also causes those most competent in a subject area to think less of their own talents. Also I think seniors have families or better shit to do than sit around on a discord answering questions.