"They climbin' in yo windows"
"Whistle tips go woo woo"
"Ain't nobody got time for that"
"they had us the first half, I'm not gonna lie"
Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker
etc
Are you sure all those people wanted their 15 minutes? I think at least some of them were genuinely responding to reporters, and it was society that turned their behaviors into phenomena.
Maybe, I"m just trying to come up with some read that's more charitable than "they're all too stupid to know they don't have anything intelligent to say"...which is basically what OP was saying.