• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    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@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      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.

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        9 months 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.