1/ If I was conspiratorial, I'd wonder if there was some soulless PR manager out there who reached out to incurious and unimaginative assholes during their 15 minutes of viral fame and asked, "do you want to drag this shit out, forever?"https://twitter.com/KaitMarieox/status/1004350093099663361 …
2/ But, there's no conspiracy. Reality is simpler. The proliferation of selfish assholes incapable of critical thinking has created a ripe and self-renewing market for grifters who stumble upon the profitable role of acting as a focal point for coordinating fantasies of pwnage.
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You don’t think it’s both?
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Sure, but I think the balance is way more in favor of the stumble-upon crowd thanks to this algorithmic mess we all play on. The PR people are more boutique-ish, managing people once they happen to persist for more than 15 minutes.
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