This article is a prime example of the genre. I strongly believe it is intentionally optimized to take people who would be sympathetic and highlight maximally u

This article is a prime example of the genre. I strongly believe it is intentionally optimized to take people who would be sympathetic and highlight maximally unsympathetic behavior, for the purpose of generating an argument between folks who empathize with the couple and folks who decry their choices and privilege. (This is the toxoplasma of rage thesis; from a perspective of virality, lovable people you can hate are a lot better than lovable people or hatable people.) This shows most clearly on the part about buying a prom suit on a credit card because one is too poor to rent one, which is the Sam Vimes boot thesis about poverty phrased in a way to sound pathologically out of touch.