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[–] 51 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

Do you ever feel like modern society just wants to be outraged all of the time?

In the unlikely event humanity survives our many man made crises of this era, might this come to have been known as the Karen Age?

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's because the threshold for writing "X causes outrage" in a headline is "one random nobody tweeted angrily about it". For any given topic you can always find at least a single person who is angry about it. So this might just as well be known as the Shitty Clickbait Journalism Age.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Outrage sells clicks and views better than anything except maybe disaster with a side of pretty young white girl.

    They want to sell you outrage. So that’s what you see all the time.

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  • Indeed. It's less modern society and more three Twitter handles that are probably the same person retweeting themselves because you can find someone saying anything on Twitter to justify any made up faux outrage headline.

    Meanwhile the 'smart' people eat it up. How many comments in this thread lol?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Just someone outraged.

    Most people probably moved on without any reactions.

    Some stayed leaving comments for whatever reason.

    The story we hear is written by the latter group, even if it is a tiny minority.

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