Nikita Bier is a predator whose prey was teenagers without a fully developed prefrontal cortex. He leveraged existing phone addictions and cheap dopamine tricks to further entrap them in dumb, pointless apps and then sold their data to the highest bidder.

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You’re describing the Facebook model as well, it just applied to the entire population of teens/adults without fully formed or functioning prefrontal cortex’s (assisted by the pandemic of junk food and ADD/ADHD)

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In some way, I find Facebook more understandable because Mark made a product for kids his own age to start. While there are valid brain rot criticisms (now more than ever) it didn’t start as “old man purposely targets teens”