u/Careless_Title_1043

I (25M) have always been a vocal supporter for Palestine and the end of the Genocide, while also being disgusted by how we brushed the very serious Epstein Files situation.

And of course, Instagram became the place for me to vent my frustrations. From liking, sharing and commenting on ProPal and Epstein Files content like pages overviews, breakdowns and analysis.

But in the recent days, I began to notice that content that was given to me was becoming a lot more... conspiratorial.

From the Dancing Israeli thing, to that supposed video of Hilary doing a satanic ritual with a kid, and when looking up for it, I found it was a common QAnon conspiracy.

And that's when I began to doubt if my algorithm was doing okay. I mean, I used to scoff at these type of things labeling them as crazy people stuff, and now I was the one watching.

And that just kept going and going.

From a video of the Squid from the Madagascar series mimicking movements Epstein made while checking his lips and eyes on camera, to Palm Beach Pete shit, to a conspiracy theory about how supposedly celebrities kidnap girls and use a machine to suck the life out of them and back into celebrities with the caption "It's just a joke, right?" Because it was from an episode of American Dad

And I began to notice how people were blaming Jewish people and making jokes about them all the fucking time.

At that point I began wondering "What the fuck am I watching?"

And when I pointed out multiple times that being Israeli and being Jewish are two different things, I got labeled "Israel's greatest soldier" or "Sleeper Mossad Agent" or had people spam "7k" and other dog whistles.

I know for a fact that these talking points are dangerous, not just for innocent Jewish people who are openly against the genocide, but also because it's only gonna add fuel to the fire for Israel as they have a perfect scapegoat to continue what they do.

I am equally as appalled as everyone else, but I believe we have collectively lost the fucking plot. Finding correlation between everything and Epstein or everything and Israel is not doing anything but making us grow more paranoid and burnt out to do anything about it.

No wonder we're not angry enough, we are all to busy foaming at the mouth in our eco chambers to do anything meaningful.

My algorithm is doing better now. It mostly have Trump gaffs and daily show content and videos of horses and farm animals, but I can't still shake the feeling that I did something wrong, I felt that I closed my eyes and turned my head on something that isn't a joking matter and should be commented and referenced all the time. And I blame myself because I thought I was more mature and savy enough to steer far away from this type of content, not realizing that I was slowly getting poisoned by it.

TL;DR, i became a victim of conspiracy videos on Epstein and Israel on Instagram and I feel guilty for not wanting to see those upsetting videos anymore

I (25M) have been on a journey to expand music knowledge for the past year and a half.

So far I have listened to over 400 albums, and this summer, before rolling to college to pursue my Master's degree in cinema and modern medias, I decided to spend the summer listening to an album per day and rate it on a small list of mine to pass the time.

Here's the problem: My brother (31M) is also really passionate about music, and it comes to a point where he can get obnoxious.

A few years ago he was friends with a guy that calling him performative would be a huge understatement. He constantly talked about music like he had a degree in music and always had the hottest takes in terms of music to be a contrarian ON PURPOSE.(Dude was also an unironic fan of Shane Dawson...that one didn't age quite so well.)

This guy kept talking about "chords, rhythm, flow, feelings" and used terms that came out straight out of a thesaurus.

Like, one day he gave me a whole lecture on Chord progressions of Giant Steps while we were in the car, and I was so tired from the night out and just wanted something to chill to and go to sleep, while he constantly bragged about "I know how chord progressions go! I just do it on the fly since I'm so good!"

And my brother, being the high functioning autistic man he is, sucked up this approach to music like a sponge.

Now, eventually we broke ties with this person for reasons outside of music, but my brother never left this way to review and talk about music.

Always talking about it like it's trying his hardest to describe things in the most high brow, pretentious way possible, even if he doesn't mean it that much anymore, he just doesn't know how to express himself, or at least that's what he says.

And to top it off, he always wants my playlists because he wants to listen to them too and "rate them".

Same thing with the list of albums that I saved that I want to listen throughout the summer and in the nearby future.

And I never, ever want to share them.

I don't think it's a fear of being judged, I hate talk about shit like he is a know it all, in the most pretentious way I don't think even music reviewers with a masters degree in music do.

So, I am asking you all, am I an asshole for keeping my playlists and my music to myself, and talking about music to him to a minimum?

I know, I know, I could've been posting this in r/AITAH but I felt more at home in a place where other people talk about music to a daily.

TL;DR: My older brother talks about music in a try hard, annoying way and it makes me want to gatekeeping my stuff, but I feel bad for not sharing.