The Great Thing About the Internet Is That You Support Work You Don’t Want to Support by Reading It to Find Out Just How Awful It Really Is

Which just encourages people to write more crap. Send help.

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The internet is a perpetual feedback loop of horrible writing.

And in order to find out just how horrible something is — for example, let’s say, a blog post on a blogging platform—you have to click on it.

And you click on it because you’ve been manipulated into clicking on it by the moderators or creators of the website who, for whatever unknown, incomprehensible reason, want you to click on it and tout it as a “Staff Pick” or a “What We’re Reading”, or something equally seductive.

Even though it’s maudlin drivel that belongs in either Guideposts (large-print edition), or Reader’s Digest (sorry, RD. Call me!), or maybe some water-stained, inspirational Victorian pamphlet about the afterlife aimed at spinsters.

I mean, it’s bad. Baaaaaaaaad.

And you’re literally paying money to read it because you have to subscribe to the site in order to…