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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally from the article:

One person wrote on X (formerly Twitter)

And that's it for citations on this "backlash". "This story is fucking trash" and since one person on kbin said that, it must be true!

Sometimes I read this garbage and I feel like it's that part from Mean Girls.

Stop trying to make outrage happen!

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty confident it's always the writer who smells an opportunity for clicks, do they write the story first then look for a source.

If they luck out, they'll find it trending. But mostly it's the "one person on Twitter" scenario.

The worst part is when the content gets shared.

[–] niktemadur 2 points 1 year ago

500 clicks in an hour, half a goddamned penny of ad revenue, then it's time to move on to the next droplet of junk content.