Lame One@sh.itjust.workstoJustGuysBeingDudes@lemmy.world•Nearly 70% of men chose to shock themselves instead of being bored for 15 minutes
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1 year agoIf this is the study I’m thinking of, one particular guy just kept shocking himself nearly a hundred times. Some people are just built different
This isn’t “backfiring” though. People who were already blocking ads are the only ones doing this. If there’s even a small portion of people who gave up and just started watching ads/got premium, that means YouTube won. The only way this could really be considered to have backfired is if people were stopping using YouTube entirely, which isn’t really happening.