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For boys, the incel and alpha male shit is what I see really affecting their life trajectories. Once they get into those mindsets they start to repel good influences and quickly end up in echo chambers. The only people who will put up with them are equally toxic and they feed off each other and quickly spiral. A good boy can turn into a woman hating rebel that doesn't listen to any adults shockingly quickly.
Unfortunately, I do not know specifically where this content lives for you to block. I'd definitely start with YouTube and tiktok. Also, talk to your kids about this stuff! It's great that you're trying to responsibly manage their Internet access. A lot of parents don't, and everything you're protecting them from on their electronics they can easily pick up from others at school. Even if you homeschool to prevent this eventually they'll grow up and leave the nest. The only holistic way to give them the best shot (no method is guaranteed, they still have free will) is to teach them the critical thinking skills and morals they need to identify and reject this stuff on their own.
Absolutely this.
YouTube is a fucking fascism treadmill.
I don't even have an account and I watch a YouTube video from Lemmy, and the next recommended video is some "influencer" flaming the hate train but disguised as a pseudo thought piece.
From personal & anecdotal experience, I think exposing kids (and adults) to a life of wide variance helps inoculate from echo chambers. My parents dragged me to my grandparents' place in the countryside one weekend a month or more where cell service didn't exist and internet was dial up. It got annoying at times and I don't think it was perfect but spending so much time playing in the woods helped get my energy out, fostered a different kind of creativity, and often made me get out of my own head. Whatever was going on at school, drama via texting, or me just raging bc I sucked at video games didn't seem so important when I was so far away. One of the most valuable parts of the Army was the people, the opportunity to truly meet and learn to work with people you wouldn't have otherwise. Even in public school, you tend to stick to your clique and at its most diverse you're really only meeting people you live in the area with. But the Army was different; the US is a freaking huge country with a ton of different subcultures. I learned a lot at an early age just by asking people where they grew up and what it was like. It introduced nuance and spoke against stereotypes in a way a lot of people need, and that diversity of experience helped a younger me appreciate that things aren't always what they seem.
It's easy, as a young man especially, to be in one place doing one thing and get really worked up about something, and echo chambers work towards that in many ways. It helps to physically move to somewhere else and burn off some energy. I find it much easier to reframe things when my physical environment is changing and I don't have such a huge pile of energy to act as fuel to the online flame wars. It helps to know in the back of my mind, however worked up I get, that "I'm angry now, but there is a place I can go where none of you losers matter and however big and loud and frustrating you are here, you are so small and quiet and barely existent when I go to that place." And if I can go somewhere else and have those loud, dumb, frustrating things shut up, then maybe they're not that loud or intimidating or big or even frustrating at all. At least not big enough for me to spend so much time thinking about it.
TL;DR: In the short term, moving around (physical motion/travel) helps. In the long term, moving around (longer term trips and travel to new places & experiences) helps.