• vonbaronhans@midwest.social
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      5 months ago

      Like it or not, people are interested in celebrities. I wouldn’t call that irrelevant in the attention economy.

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        Just because people want to hear about celebrities, doesn’t make them relevant. News, Business, and Politics has an effect on your daily life and quality of life. Should effect how you vote, where you shop, or where you look for a job, etc.

        Celebrities do not. They’re propping up a site run by a eugenics supporter because they’re voyeurs.

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          The “people want to hear about celebrities” part is relevant to the fact that interests drive a big part of the audience to the site. Meaning, you and I both want celebrities to be off Twitter because if we can convince them to go elsewhere, that would be an effective way to cripple Twitter.

          Complaining that people like celebrities when they’re not “relevant to your daily life” doesn’t really do anything to further your goals. It just makes you sound like an asshole who isn’t relatable to the kind of people that we want to listen to us.

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            It just makes you sound like an asshole who isn’t relatable to the kind of people that we want to listen to us.

            Cool, cool.

            I just separate “wants” and “needs” and wants aren’t important enough to a site run like someone like Musk.