Yeah, I'm sure you're mostly likely right... I just get so annoyed when media companies or influencers deliberately rage-bait because it just works so incredibly well... and distracts everyone from actual real issues that we should be working on.
Unfortunately I think rage-bait works best on triggering topics. Declare something about pineapple on pizza, get 100 comments... declare something political or about gender or race... 100,000 comments.
It is infuriating. One of many reasons I don't attend mainstream news at all anymore.
And absolutely which is why they do it all the time, guaranteed a massive over the top reaction from people who want to feel justifiably outraged and have zero emotional control (that thing Taraz likes to yammer on about incessantly XD).
It's so annoying.
The way I see it is that journalists are really the only defense society has against high-level corruption of politicians and CEOs - but they're not going to spend time and money doing that work when they can just earn their coin on low-effort, non-news articles about one person's social media opinion.
pineapple is good on pizza.
STRONG AGREE!