• ThrowawayOnLemmy@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Trolling might have been where it started, but this is the natural amplification process of reactionary media.

    The question is bull shit, the answers don’t really matter, and the articles generated from it are just there to capture your time and attention. This whole article and the social media posts that started it are all pointless.

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      6 months ago

      It didn’t start with trolling, it started with an article trying to get people to think for once instead of just react.

      It’s just people are dumb, so they thought it was trolling.

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      6 months ago

      Well yeah, it’s an impossible hypothetical, it’s not supposed to have a point. Actually, it did have a point, which it very easily accomplished: trigger incels. Just remember, there would be no reactionary media without media consumers being reactionary.