When cats bring you food, mice, birds, etc. it’s because they think you’re an especially stupid cat, but they like you enough to keep trying to take care of/teach you.

It’s not even an original concept. It’s just the popular kid.

IMO the problem really took off when smart phones entered the equation. When any idiot can get online with almost zero barrier to entry, then every idiot will get online. It’s why I like Lemmy; it’s not popular and the difficulty to access it is marginally harder than Reddit’s.

Once the Internet was saturated with idiots then marketing and monetization followed along. Capitalism is seriously the 5th Horseman of the Apocalypse.

TIL that counterfeit fucking cheese is a thing.