The Outrage Machine — Script (Unfiltered Edition)
The one where anger becomes entertainment — and everyone’s selling tickets.
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“Outrage used to mean something.
Now it’s just cardio for the emotionally unemployed.”
INTRO — Welcome to the Arena
Welcome back.
Pull up a chair, put your ego in airplane mode —
today we’re talking about outrage.
Real outrage used to be rare.
Sacred, até.
You’d get angry because something mattered — corruption, injustice, betrayal.
Now?
Someone microwaves fish at work and the whole office is ready to march.
We don’t process emotions anymore.
We broadcast them.
We curate them.
We monetise them.
And some people…
some people live inside the algorithm like squatters with Wi-Fi.
Welcome to the Outrage Machine —
the only machine that gets more powerful the less thinking we do.
🔥 PART 1 — Your Anger Is Someone’s Business Model
Here’s the truth nobody wants to hear:
Your outrage is not noble.
It’s profitable.
Every time you click, comment, scream in a group chat —
someone gets paid.
The algorithm doesn’t care if you’re right.
It cares if you’re loud.
Anger keeps you scrolling.
Scrolling keeps them rich.
And they KNOW your triggers.
The internet studies you like a lab rat with notifications.
You pause for half a second on a headline?
Congratulations —
you’ve just told the machine exactly which flavour of misery to sell you next.
People say:
“I’m not addicted to my phone.”
Love… your screen time says otherwise.
You spent three hours arguing with a stranger called TruthWarrior87.
Get help.
🧨 PART 2 — The Outrage Olympics
Welcome to the Games.
Where everyone competes to see who can be the most offended…
about absolutely anything.
Someone posts a harmless opinion?
Boom — ten people are already drafting dissertations in the comments.
Someone mispronounces a word?
They’re “dangerous.”
Someone forgets a hashtag?
They “hate an entire community.”
Nuance died.
Subtlety’s missing.
Context? On annual leave.
Everything is either cancellation or celebration now —
there’s no middle ground.
People don’t react —
they perform.
The internet turned feelings into theatre
and somehow we all became actors without getting paid.
⚙️ PART 3 — The Machine Needs Feeding
Here’s how the cycle works:
Something tiny happens.
Someone gets mildly irritated.
The algorithm smells blood.
Suddenly it’s trending, monetised, weaponised.
Then comes the public apology video —
tearful, scripted, filmed in terrible lighting.
The person’s sitting on the floor for relatability.
Always on the floor.
Why? Do they lose access to chairs during a scandal?
They say things like:
“I’m listening. I’m learning.”
No you’re not.
You’re reading a statement your PR intern wrote at 3AM.
Then the Machine moves on to the next victim.
It’s never satisfied —
just hungry.
📣 PART 4 — The Echo Chamber Effect
The scariest part?
You only hear people who already agree with you.
Your digital world is curated for maximum ego comfort.
They call it a “For You Page.”
They’re not joking —
it’s literally designed for you.
Congratulations —
you’ve built a cult with no leader and no exit plan.
If you’ve ever posted an opinion and received 200 comments saying,
“Yessss queen so true,”
that’s not validation.
That’s confirmation bias with lip gloss.
🎙 OUTRO — Switch the Machine Off
Here’s my final thought:
Outrage is exhausting.
Not because people are stupid —
because people are bored.
And bored people will burn anything if it gives them five seconds of purpose.
So step outside the machine.
Touch some grass.
Touch a life.
Touch your own conscience, maybe.
Outrage is easy.
Thought is hard.
And silence — real silence —
that’s rebellion now.
Uninfluenced.
Unpaid.
Unfiltered.
I’m Noah Jackman —
and this was The Outrage Machine.
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