Writer:“Hey Boss, I finished today’s news story.”
Boss: “Oh, this Reddit, is it a good source we should use in the future?”
Writer: “Oh, yeAahhH…there’s loads of things on here…WwoAh, look sOmeone’s argument with their ex, and they’re not getting the support they wanted in the comments section. Oh, tHerE’s someone’s cat knocking over a vase. NoOo other news station has any of this stuff! Someone’s got their week allll lined up for them… I’ll be soOon on my way to the top of I keep this up”
This is literally 50% of Facebook. The other 50% is rage bait.
More like 10% at best. 99% of Facebook is AI slop and fake profiles.
I only keep my account for family and close friends. Occasionally I will see pages I follow. Every comment, just about, on that post is people either continuing the conversation for the Reddit post or a joke about the type of content. I figure, they get a lot of engagement when they first started doing this, and just followed the pattern to keep people seeing them in their feed. Same gimmick as the rage bait and the pseudo-wholesome content.
So much for the tolerant left 😡
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I’d honestly rather Fox focus on this than their usual conservative mouthbreathing.
The article literally includes marketing material for the restaurant chain and is dripping with political allusions.
The subject of the article is 39, a redditor, disagrees with his wife on how to raise their kids, thinks everything must be transactional, and that only the “worthy” deserve “treats”. The guy is literally a caricature of Fox’s audience and right wing ideology as a whole.
So, no. It’s not just a silly article. It’s still thoroughly infused with the same propaganda, and now we’ve been duped into spreading it as something innocent.
We left Reddit for Lemmy just so we could post Reddit stories that appear on Fox News, on Lemmy.
Wow. Good job, folks.
It is a good distraction. But heck, I wish I could just copy and paste quotes from social media as a ‘journalist’ for a large company like that. It’s all the article was with only a few sentences from the writer. They pretty frequently post ‘everyday-type’ stuff like this.
It’s ruff ya
Hmm, I suppose they might have language models built into their content management system to do that for them
There is not much stopping them. All the more reason to boycott. There are small trustworthy, non-politically-leaning news sources still worth using.
Sounds like a dream job if it wasn’t Fox or similar.
It’s probably done by unpaid interns anyway.
Maybe it’s an excellent allegory for current events:
Man helps child through traumatic event, buys her a milkshake to thank her. Two other petulant children also want milkshakes and say things like “why don’t you say thanks to us” and “I want half of your milkshake”.
Fox News, hiding the real cutting news like geniuses.
No, it was just an article, primarily written by the aforementioned Reddit poster and the commenter. There was little input by the ‘journalist’. Now, I can’t say the same about the OP of the Reddit post. Maybe that had a hidden meaning but I doubt it. But it doesn’t surprise me coming from Fox, it is just funny they have nothing better to write about.(they do this often) On social media every day there is a story with similar merit as this one, they could just do this every day. My point. And still be watched/read. But it is for this reason, I keep following their page: to find humor in the comments.
You need to read between the lines, man. They’re not going to come out and just say it, man. The man is watching, man.
You can’t just edge me with inception level bait. Tell me what was wrong with the ice cream so I can get to sleep.
IIRC he only got ice cream for him and one of his daughters, when the other two kids who were also with him watching them eat ice cream. Mom calls him out on that being a bit fucked up, Dad doubles down. Reddit asks OP what the fuck is he doing.
It’s weird Bean Dad shit.
It’s AI slop… Reddit’s BS stories were much more creative until LLMs came along. still remember Colby…
Once again, I’m reminded of that time when Fox News whined about SimCity Societies.
Fox News is so ass bro
All major news stations are. They each push their own agenda.
Because you say all of them do it, we should stand still and continue being inactive, just like with voting. Nothing bad could come of that.
Why? Why should we?
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Ahh yes. Because as we all know news websites only cover one story per day.
This stuff uses valuable energy, not just in the “reporting” but in that your brain needs to process the headline and blurb and evaluate its usefulness in order to filter it out from actual news. Not to mention it pushes out the actual news from your news feed.
