Photography

Hobbiests perpetuating misinformation, falsehoods and marketing slogans as technical facts about camera functions or techniques.

It drives me insane, the amount of high profile IG and YT personalities prattling on with nonsense like longer focal lengths cause compression, or high ISO causes noise, or lenses are only sharp at f8.

It has been clearly established by scientific research, that people born since 1993 (i.e. people born to parents who became adolescents after the internet became ubiquitous), trust information on the internet more than they do books, technical manuals, or in-person experts.

The majority of people on this group not only trust the internet more by default, even the sketchiest of sources, but they weigh the value, and factual reliability of the information, based on the popularity of the individual sharing it.

A physics professor sharing an established fact about gravity, with no online presence, is less likely to be believed than a teenage college student with 20,000 followers on whatever social platform, telling you gravity is fake.

We have a moral and ethical responsibility to ensure that all information we share on the internet, especially those with large followings, is correct. Even the ones who try to disclaim their words as opinions and tell people they are not experts will still be believed over experts, the science proves it. Its not enough to disclaim credibility.