I feel like I've noticed an increase in low-level comments like this lately. I'd expect to find this comment on a really popular subreddit where the masses go. Basically contains a knee-jerk reaction to the headline/title and nothing else.
yes and no.
> In 2022, there were 161.42 million people registered to vote in the United States.
> As of December 7, 2020, 66.7 percent of the eligible voting population in the United States voted in the 2020 presidential election
2020 election had 158.398m votes
~239m eligible voters
I'm lead to believe that a significant portion of those "active voters" are influenced/pay attention to/care about the media. Whether it's a weird "self-harm" relationship where it makes them upset/sick/mad, they still "do it to themselves"
By that definition, I am not one of them.
Their lack of media literacy is part of the problem.
E.g. when you see a low-effort "water is wet" article, the primal urge is to leave a low-effort comment and move on with your life. There's almost no benefit to discussing these articles, because the points have already been made, hashed, and re-hashed hundreds of times. In other words, the value add of this article to me is 0.
Media's been collapsing for a while now, because technology makes a lot of markets into winner-take-all markets, with a LOT of losers like local newspapers and below-average quality independent journalists.