• neidu2@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    I don’t really understand who their target audience is. They would’ve been conservative 20 years ago, but today I think they just cater to saying whatever middleclass boomers want to hear.

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      10 months ago

      A combination of that and knowing that comments like that will get articles like this, garnering them more attention and views. Ragebait may have become a recent Big Problem in the algorithms of social media, but it’s been around forever. Howard Stern and Jerry Springer built their fortunes on it.

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      10 months ago

      Yeah, it’s the show that tells bitchy old women that they are always right about everything.