Source: A Zillion Dollars Comics
This is something that has baffled me since it came into existence, and azilliondollarscomics.com has done a fantastic job illustrating it here. It's obviously something that came around simply for the reason of: It works. People click in this crap. I do it, and you probably do too.
From the eyes of a writer, it shows a waning society, one where every single factoid of life is turned into a sound byte or spun into a pseudo-terrifying/titillating/funny list. Unsurprisingly, I'm rarely shocked by the 10 things I'm supposed to be shocked by. In fact, more often than not, these articles are hastily researched (if researched at all) or are offering the findings of a mathematically insignificant portion of the population. Sometimes, they're outright lies, and other times they're just opinions. It's a degradation of the media, and we're stuck with nothing else to look at in every banner ad on the web.
That being said, look forward to my next blog post, "6 Ways Writing Is Sexier Than Stripping(You Wont Believe This!)"
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