There's a saddening effect that this kind of garbage foists onto society, and onto individual humans, that costs drastically more than the money the content itself scrapes up. On a societal level, you have the net effect of millions of individuals being duped into throwing their empathy at something absurdly false. That is a recipe for wild and random backlashes as people become convinced that the world is something it isn't. On an individual level, liking some fake bullshit, then realizing it's fake, causes people to feel humiliated. Ultimately, being humiliated by giving away your empathy to the wrong subject causes people to become angry and reject their natural empathy towards legitimate other people, having been fooled so many times already.
Maybe a better way of saying this is: Bad currency drives out good. And if the currency is empathy and sympathy itself, then we are racing toward a society that will no longer be able to cast itself into anyone else's shoes.
Maybe a better way of saying this is: Bad currency drives out good. And if the currency is empathy and sympathy itself, then we are racing toward a society that will no longer be able to cast itself into anyone else's shoes.