• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    Engagement is engagement, whether people are engaged through anger or love.

    Engagement is the only metric these types of media sources care about.

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      Source not for consumption but as proof that it’s not just a bs screenshot for rage bait to push their link

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      scrub the influencer brainworms from your gray matter for one moment and produce a critical thought–

      engagement with what, exactly?

      the signal which carries no message is white noise.

      meaningless engagement is distraction, wasted bandwidth.

      an emoji is not a meaningful improvement to the material condition of the working class, or a threat to the status quo. It’s not even relevant to the abolition of work.

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        You’re responding as if they’ve expressed any sort of opinion on that but it’s just facts. It’s just a fact of the state of “journalism” and how online content works now. Higher engagement means more reach, it’s just SEO/marketing shit. These companies aren’t doing it for the betterment of society.