Also, we live in a messed up world that one person can do something so stupid and get a thousand people to look at it.
There's nothing stupid about this. It's fun.
The two are not mutually exclusive.
True, but I still don't think it's stupid. You could argue that it's pointless, but I'd still tend to disagree.
We've lived in that world for at least a couple of decades, if limiting to “any one person”. Heck, a thousand is a rookie number: look at all the crap on youtube/tictok getting millions of views.
If you stretch the definition to “any one person with some money” we've been in that world a lot longer.
That's a great thing. That's one of the least messed up things about the world.