[lwo32k]

"Pure Desperation"

What happens when there is more Content than there are Eyeballs or Time to consume it all? Or economically what happens when Supply massively overshoots Demand? People who design UX/UI aren't economists they are just reacting to an environment, dominated by a few companies all fighting tooth and nail over a finite non growing pool of Attention. Anyone that makes a move is automatically copied by everyone else out of sheer FOMO.

So we get the tooth aisle - hundreds of different toothpastes - but really a few companies that have divided up the entire market and shit scared of loosing ground so they copy each other furiously constantly adding more and more options just cause the other guy did so - https://metropolismag.com/programs/the-toothpaste-aisle

[iwatog]

So this could just be reckless copying? Sounds both crazy and plausible