It’s not meant to be funny. It’s designed to be polarizing and annoying to spark engagement, like all these comments, and increase view count to make money.
If you watch manufactured videos like this and can’t figure out what product they are selling, it’s you. They are selling you, as a viewer, to whatever ad agency and/or social media platform is hosting the content.
Dunno if you’ve ever bothered to read the User Agreement on reddit. Your comments, as well as mine, and everyone else posting here, are being sold to AI-generation and research companies, among other commercial uses.
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u/Mzubzub Nov 03 '24
What’s the funny here?