My media habits are configured to mostly avoid this junk, but I think I also have developed a "junk blindness" similar to the "ad blindness" filters that cause

My media habits are configured to mostly avoid this junk, but I think I also have developed a "junk blindness" similar to the "ad blindness" filters that cause people to not even look properly at blatant ads. If you visualised brain activity as someone views a feed of recommendations, you'd probably see a lot of that nonsense content is skimmed over autonomously by folks who aren't interested in it.