I think people want to feel angry, it’s a shot of adrenaline with the same feeling as drinking coffee. The ones that panders to rage bait like Washington Post a

I think people want to feel angry, it’s a shot of adrenaline with the same feeling as drinking coffee. The ones that panders to rage bait like Washington Post and IGN are doing relatively well in a difficult landscape. It is horrible, but is probably how we are wired and something deeply unconscious, and I try to combat this by asking myself what kind of feeling a certain website will give me, before clicking, which seems to do the trick.