[op03]

Contradictory logic pfft.

Have you checked your families google app/news feed or whatever they are calling that thing these days. Its like Meghan Markle is the most important person in the world.

I mean initially it was fun to rib my Dad about why he is getting so many Meghan Markle updates. But now I am just scared to even look at phones in the family, given the amount of addictive garbage that is being pumped into them non stop.

[MattGaiser]

Royals have been a favourite topic in the news since long before search engines existed.

The algo is just picking up on the same trends tabloids did. Tons of people want to read that stuff.

[hi41]

My family valued education and I thought it was true for everyone. I didn’t think people read the cheap magazines about celebrities in the checkout aisle in supermarkets. I thought everyone read Dostoyevsky. Haha. Since such interest in garbage seems to exist in so many cultures, do you think there is a evolutionary benefit that comes from it?