Hard to choose what to quote from this piece, but (all emphasis mine):
The hashtag #nuclearwar is trending on Twitter right now. If you click in on it, it shows you the top content tagged #nuclearwar. If you click on one of the posts, in giant letters, Twitter asks you to “tweet your reply.” What’s your take on nuclear annihilation, the bird site wonders thoughtlessly.
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What is QAnon if not just a way to always have something new to create or consume during breaking news events.
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There are a lot of internet users who, after a decade of exposure to viral media, have had their minds so thoroughly warped by trending content that they believe that reacting to popular internet culture is […] some kind of moral duty.
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The internet is at a place technologically now where connectivity is not just the default, but demanded of us all.
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memeification, the marvel-isation, the spectacle of an ongoing war rendered as entertainment etc. This is less about a lack of empathy or understanding of human suffering, and far more indicative of platforms doing what they were designed to do in producing everything as content
— Crossrail Morbius (@HKesvani) February 28, 2022