This thread is getting a lot of engagement and your clue should be that this is exactly what successful influencers manage to accomplish. It doesn't matter what

This thread is getting a lot of engagement and your clue should be that this is exactly what successful influencers manage to accomplish. It doesn't matter what opinion you have of MrBeast. It matters that we have an opinion, any opinion, lots of it. To give another recent example. A young progressive woman on TikTok went viral because she claimed that traditional masculinity (chivalry, providing for her) was absent in liberal men and only found in Republican men. Yet she does not culturally align with Republicans. She wanted both aspects of men and couldn't find any. As expected, half the world engaged to point out hypocrisy, unrealistic expectations, and so on. Each participant in this conversation thinking they're correcting her, setting her straight, putting her back in her corner. That's not what happened. She won. All of this is engineered. Engagement traps and engagement farming. And we fall for it every single time because it is a hard-wired feature of our brain: to obsess over deviations of the normal.