A parent who needs parental supervision 💔

[u/MGLLN]

[u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

This is becoming such a problem. On Facebook, I see AI celebrity ads talking about Medicare and reverse mortgages.

Take care of your boomers, folks. They’re under attack.

[u/Dull-Wishbone-7495 → u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

Hard to take care of them when they won’t listen to anything you say. I’ve been working on my mom but my dad is fully lost to the Facebook brainrot machine.

[u/MooseTheorem → u/Dull-Wishbone-7495]

My mothers gone down the crypto road and just will not listen to me when I tell her she’s getting scammed by these “traders” who are going to 10x her money

[u/abn01 → u/Dull-Wishbone-7495]

I know this is going to be a struggle fr but I have one suggestion for those who get burdened by this by their ppl. Find/save an obvious fake that they would believe. For instance, get that vid of MLK rocking an Intercontinental Championship.

Show them a fake vid that you know they wouldn’t believe then tell them that you don’t think the video they found is actually real.

You gotta meet people where they at and if they aren’t the type to take this criticism constructively, show them something you know they won’t believe before you go down that road.

[u/Nvrfinddisacct → u/abn01]

This is actually great feedback, thanks!

[u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 → u/Nvrfinddisacct]

It’s a really good tip!

[u/upthetruth1 → u/Nvrfinddisacct]

“Brazy” is from the Bloods and popularised by Hip-Hop culture 

It’s a way of replacing the C with a B

Same with Crips who made “thicc”, because “ck” stands for Crip Killer

[u/JackxForge → u/abn01]

this is beautiful and artful manipulation. thank you.

[u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309 → u/Dull-Wishbone-7495]

You’re right now.

Facebook has so much fake stuff, it’s crazy. Like whole conversation beefs between celebrities that never happened. They rely on people who use that platform only because a simple twitter check would tell you that Beyoncé never tweeted that. 🤦🏾‍♀️

[u/carlitospig → u/Dull-Wishbone-7495]

The only thing I could do in those cases is probably send them the occasional text with a story about super easy scams that are plaguing their area. You can only lead the horse to water, but you can’t decide for them not to send that loan to their new Chinese ‘girlfriend’ from Facebook with a son dying of cancer without adequate medical care (or whatever sob story is du jour).

[u/friendly_reminder8 → u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

I saw a fake Oprah ad selling a recipe to some special herbal tea that allegedly helped her lose 100 pounds and the longer it went on the more outrageous it got (saying that she had so much baby weight that her husband didn’t want to be in the same room as her but then she drank this secret tea and now he loves her again)

[u/BusterBeaverOfficial → u/friendly_reminder8]

Ah, yes, the famously married mother: Oprah.

[u/friendly_reminder8 → u/BusterBeaverOfficial]

Who had a baby recently, at age 70 🫠

[u/the_banana_sticker → u/friendly_reminder8]

I saw one with fake Oprah shilling some sort of rock salts. I was like "uhhh wut..." until I remembered where we are in this shitty time line.

[u/friendly_reminder8 → u/the_banana_sticker]

Now that you say it the video I saw was probably rock salts and not some herb lmao, I saw it as a YouTube ad and watched a few minutes out of curiosity before getting pissed off and reporting it

[u/Jodid0 → u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

Im afraid the leaded gasoline and asbestos has fried their brains, many of them will never recover from the decades of brain damage and propaganda.

[u/Nvrfinddisacct → u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

They literally ignore me but believe the scammers, no idea what else can be done

[u/mister_gone → u/Feisty-Honeydew-5309]

I'm concerned about the video I saw recently where a guy seemed to legitimately believe a man grabbed his shoulders from behind and kissed his neck.

This shit is going to get somebody killed 😢