On BBC news website today I saw a story that on the front page is labelled as “Is the dystopian future of water shortages already here?”
Click on it, and you finda story about… how some restaurants in a relatively dry region of India are serving half-size glasses of water :rolleyes:
It’s such an exaggeration that they could claim it was meant humorously. But still, that “humor” would have got the story a lot of unwarranted clicks, and caused a lot of disappointment.
Yep and in general “Look at how this star has let him/herself go!” and then they show a picture of the person at 23 and at 45.
Yeah you really dropped the ball there by living on the surface of a planet exposed to solar and cosmic radiation and not frequently scrubbing your DNA for errors.
I think the new “you won’t believe what ______” form factor is “The internet is losing its mind over _____”
Except, if the whole internet is losing its mind over somethings, you wouldn’t have to write an article on the internet to tell the internet that, now would you?