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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Every now and then, there's an article about some dumb shit a person on The View says. My reaction is always surprise that The View is still even a thing.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't really understand who their target audience is. They would've been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it's been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.

[–] Boozilla 23 points 11 months ago (3 children)

It's a fossilized turd. My guess is, there's so much fierce competition for eyeballs these days, if the advertisers think 200 people are actually watching it, they get pretty excited.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

There's a lot of people in comas that are in those 200 people and mostly because it comes on after Price is Right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago
[–] feedum_sneedson 6 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

"Get out now, Barbara! This show will sink you like a stone!" - SNL