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The title of this article is absurd clickbait.

• jjtheblunt 4y ago
  That seems normal for vice.com, does it not?
  • dmitriid 4y ago
    Evergreen (mildly NSFW): How Vice comes up with article ideas https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA https://youtu.be/Ia7fUQXskvA Applies to most media, really.
  • antegamisou 4y ago
    Yes, the problem is that HNers consider themselves intellectually superior to Redditors who tend to be the ones that upvote sensationalist articles. Apparently they don’t understand the heavy overlap between their collective behavior.
    • hackernewds 4y ago
      Curious what warranted this backlash?
      • antegamisou 4y ago
        Poor quality of top posts in the front page, considering HNs etiquette about content strictly pertaining to anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity when it’s clearly not the case. Also the cognitive dissonance of people here when their favorite platform gets compared to admittedly lower quality ones (Reddit). What should one expect however when the front page is for the most part infested with meaningless platitudes about trends that end up being short-lived but get hyped as life-altering innovations? And I haven’t even touched upon the subject of the course of debates on the site (bold assumptions by commenters significantly lacking background but still considering themselves authority)…
        • jjtheblunt 4y ago
          your last parenthesized part seems ubiquitous now far more than 10+ years ago, to say the least.