I suspect that most such articles are written by some poor soul living in an area where the best available jobs are writing garbage click farm articles. I would

I suspect that most such articles are written by some poor soul living in an area where the best available jobs are writing garbage click farm articles. I wouldn't be surprised if some were even generated largely or entirely by machine. Calling them "crap articles" downplays the fact that they are not even really content, they are just a pretense to fill a page with affiliate links.