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I think this is an appropriately flippant response. If you're on YouTube or listening to podcasts or browsing hacker news, it's extremely important to qualify everything you see as something to engage your specific curiosities, advertise, or to serve an algorithm that people have made their jobs.

People are hard up for content, a lot of their audience doesn't have employment anymore and are scared, and they need to put things out at a regular cadence. It's not (necessarily) a conspiracy that you see the same copy pasted tech thing appear everywhere simultaneously, and because it does, it makes you think everyone in real life knows and cares, but that's far from reality. Even someone who's terminally online and chronically checking these things could have taken a long weekend away from their phone and not have heard about it.

As an aside, no employer really gives a shit about your curiosities, so you need to separate all that chronic consumption from what is efficient and practical to do in a job if you have one, rather than leaning into what someone online thinks is the best way or whatever you think is the future.