I think they are best understood as the modern equivalent of circa 2000 era virtue signalling "I don't watch TV, we don't even have one in our house". Except no

I think they are best understood as the modern equivalent of circa 2000 era virtue signalling "I don't watch TV, we don't even have one in our house". Except now people do it online on HN because their IRL friends are sick of hearing them talk about it.