Comment by 👻 darkghost

Yes. Keep engaged with the platform so we can shove more ads into your eyeballs. Rage is engaging.

Dec 02 · 3 weeks ago

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I never thought that clickbait would then mutate into ragebait of any kind on the internet. Man I wish ragebait to dissapear honestly.

Culturally, the society needs to decide that it is eating their time and energy and fundamentally isn't worth their attention. And while I'm dreaming, I'd like a pretty pink pony to take me to the marshmallow kingdom.

Yes, the society is doubling down.

@jprjr Interesting, considering we do say “so and so died” here, nobody says “X passed away” except in media. This is outside of USA, though. And I can speak only for what I heard and said myself, of course.

I fortunately have limited experience with this. But the worst incident was also with all the subtly of an atom bomb. A close friend lost their teenager in a car accident. I was told by my friend via text "<child's name> died today" as a response to some inane thing I had sent.

In my experience it tends to vary based on who's delivering the news and who they're delivering it too.

Like if I'm telling people about my pet dying - I'm using terms like passed away, or we lost them, etc. If some random animal is hit by a car - it died.

If someone famous dies that I don't have any real connection to - I'm just going to say they died. But if it makes the news or obits etc, those are probably going to say passed away if it wasn't a surprise, or they'll probably just say "so and so was found dead" this morning if it is a surprise.

But I've also gotten a "my husband died today" text from a friend.

I guess it's kind of all over the place

Each person manages such news different ways. I mean sugar coating it won't lessen it's impact. I had a lot to parse from such a simple statement because of the sheer magnitude of such news and things like "I'm dying" as a response to something hilarious or embarrassing.

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