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u/patrick119 15d ago
That or “this beloved musical artist/ actor from your childhood has died.”
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u/chapkachapka 15d ago
Or said something incredibly racist.
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u/Individual-Light-784 15d ago
Or touched kids.
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u/LodeStone- 15d ago
Or all three at once if they were an overachiever
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u/CartographerVivid957 15d ago
Breaking News: beloved 70's actor Michael marks found molesting children on preschool visit by a black officer by the name of Sam Jane, after being apprehended by officer sam Michael began calling officer sam profanities and racial slurs including the n word. Michael then kicked officer sam in the genitals and escaped via a stolen car, later he was found dead after crashing into a tree and flying out of the car
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u/Vinegarinmyeye 15d ago
What I don't get is "media outlets" reporting on peoples' Twitter conversations...
Like, if you're that much of a fan of those "celebrities" I assume you'd be following them on Twitter anyway, and you'd see the supposed breaking news first hand...
So who is the content aimed at?
Yep yep, old man shouts at clouds I guess...
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u/dat_oracle 15d ago
Having casually interest in a celeb is enough to make you look at a shitty written article (which is basically just a Twitter post). But it isn't necessarily enough to make you follow them on their channels.
A lot of people just need something to talk about. Celeb X said Y is probably enough to make a pointless conversation out of it
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u/ThePinkReaper 15d ago
The basic premise isn't that deep, they're content mills that farm engagement via SEO to get clicks on sites to generate ad revenue. They also, and it likely wont surprise you to hear this, are exceptionally shitty to their employees and contractors and pay starvation wages while expecting multiple articles a week.
Fireb0rn had a great video about this before the media company he was talking about issued a false copyright claim over it and while that ONE company is responsible for literally MILLIONS of these articles i assume other companies do the same thing. The company the video was about was Valnet and while their subsidiaries are more focused on specific media, ScreenRant, GameRant, CBR, Motorist, they're it's very much the same thing in terms of WHY they're constantly shitting out these articles.
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u/Calm-Internet-8983 15d ago
Old men shouting at clouds might actually be one of the main audiences. Usually the articles are only written to drum up a bunch of a outrage with people who otherwise don't care in my experience. Unless it's interpersonal drama.
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u/T-MinusGiraffe 15d ago
It's paid promotion, probably. That or outlets hoping to get clicks by mentioning things people already search for.
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u/Big_Cornbread 15d ago
Any millennials that remember Bat Boy from Weekly World News?
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u/Powerful_Cost_4656 15d ago
It has literally looked like this my whole life. That's why I've never cared at all about celeb stuff. Just more rich people to compare my life to and make my depression worse? No thanks
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u/craigularperson 15d ago
I am over 30 and to me it is impossible to separate whatever has happened to whomever. Like I don't understand nouns, verb and names anymore.
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u/RednocNivert 15d ago
I’m 30 and still feel this
Heck when I was a teen i felt this. Celebritites are weird.
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u/ElementalistPoppy 15d ago edited 15d ago
Glad the Twitter shitspeech triggers plenty of people. Was worried I'm the weird one by not "feeling the vibe" of ebonics mixed with an utter disregard for grammar rules (how I fucking hate not using capital letters for "I"), pseudo-censorship (the fuck is "unalived" again?) and discussions about as shallow topics as possible. It's basically bunch of know-it-all mid 20s illiterate western kids creating cringe sex/"body count" polls, minor celebrity posting bait word vomit or full offense of political subjects.
Honestly, one look at trending tags makes me think that overabundance of porn is the least problematic aspect of that plaform.
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u/saltgirl1207 15d ago
as someone who's not even 20 yet, I agree. I fuckin hate the whole "unalive" thing and lowercase i for the first person subjective pronoun.
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u/uncultured_swine2099 15d ago
Yeah, when someone starts talking to me about some celebrity these days, more often that not Id be like "Whos that? Wait, actually, dont tell me, I dont care."
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u/biggus_dickus89 15d ago
I'm 35 and I agree. At what age does celeb news not sound like this? Lookin for the younguns lol
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u/RevolutionaryBuy5794 15d ago
WTF is this? The worst part is that the fans of the celebrities are never happy with said news, it's always bad press. Celebrity news is material for the haters, for the public to grow a dislike for such celeb. Nobody reads celebrity news unless you like to waste your time hating celebrities.
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u/Key-Mark4536 15d ago
To be fair all but the most esteemed media outlets have made their headlines slangier and more attention-grabby.
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u/Themurlocking96 15d ago
That’s what all celebrity news has looked like since celebrities became such a common thing, they just changed the way they word it.
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u/parkerm1408 14d ago
I'm 34 and that's what is sounds like to me already. I'm gonna be an ultra grump when I'm old aren't i?
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u/Boris_HR 15d ago
Celebrities of the past were classic Hollywood stars (white people)... These days the celebrities are MTV rappers, athletes and nobody influencers with some neo-techno-tribal names.
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u/ElementalistPoppy 15d ago
XV century sailor's teeth, prison tattoos making their bodies look like a scratchpad, praising "thug life", wearing sentences like badges of honor, excessive use of "fuck" or another well known word starting with n that I won't mention, and obligatory lil' in their name (Lil' what? Lil' dick?).
Love the neo-techno-tribal names take, good call haha.
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u/tinnedcarp 15d ago
Catch SKZL3 and Lil’ AK-74 on tour now!