> I mean, you must see the primal appeal - essentially the posts are "haha, who else does {{COMMON_THING}}?!"
No, and I feel like I'm explaining to the AI what human behavior looks like here. Yes, the sort of meme discussion you quote is fairly common, but it's not just "common thing", it's some sort of shared experience that's probably private; you're not sure if everyone else experiences it, but saying you experience it might sound weird to others, and the (usually unneeded) thoughts of potential embarrassment maybe prevents you from doing so. Until someone does, in such a post, and yeah, those take off as the day's lucky 10000 are all sighing a collective "I'm not weird!" sigh of relief. Eye floaters come to mind as an example.
But … that's not the case here. "Who the heck sleeps with a Fan (sic) and AC on?". Heck, that odd capitalization just makes it even more uncanny valley. Like Zuckerberg really is a robot, and he's just tried a new social subroutine out on me.
Have you ever considered the fact that because clearly much of the world's population _does_ in fact comment on these posts, that _they_ have said normal "human behavior" and not you or I? We're the outlier on Facebook.
While several million is a lot, yes, it is a far cry from the 7B people in the world, or the just shy of 3B users FB claims to have. The question is how many ignored that post; it could very well be that they out number the ones who commented, and those who comment are the outliers.
It could also be sockpuppets are commenting to drum up the numbers to make the post look hotter than it actually is.
I don't get why you're being down voted. It's a fair argument. We really don't know how many ignored the post.
Yes, since Facebook picked to promote it, probably a low percentage ignored. But what is "low percentage" to Facebook algo?
Maybe usual average is 90% ignores without "engaging". With this one, "only" 60% ignored.
Which means the majority are not triggered by this sort of thing.
This is only speculation, but just to illustrate the argument may be valid indeed and these networks like Facebook end up giving an impression that something is "normal" across humans, but they're actually not.
You're on the right path, but you're missing the milquetoast sting at the end; something that's controversial, or slightly embarrassing that makes the activity seem niche, but really isn't. "Who the heck eats Food with the Fridge door open?" - or "Who the heck eats Food slowly, so the crinkly wrapper doesn't wake the kids?".
Yoi can find the same sort of viral drivel under "relatable tweets" on Twitter.
you have what I call a "Kardashian problem" - I don't understand why the Kardashians are popular. Who the hell would be interested in these people? Why would anyone waste any time watching them or paying them any attention? And yet people clearly do, as the Kardashians are (or were) making millions from other people's interest in them. Clearly it's not their problem, it's that I don't understand their market.
If you're struggling to understand why this FB page has such an enormous following,the answer isn't that "they're doing it wrong, people aren't like that" - because they're clearly not wrong, and enough people are like that to give them that huge following. The answer is that you don't understand that market.
I know the name "Kim", and I know they are in plural, but wouldn't be able to tell them apart - or give any reason why they should be interesting either. The word "implants" springs to mind, before my brain shuts down to what I perceive as infinite stupidity overload.
I understand there's a significant number of people who quite clearly excel at getting through life worrying about rather different things than myself.
Now you're getting it, although you need to think of something that most people do, and then mock them. The key is to trigger confused/shock engagement. Plenty of people are obviously falling for this.
No, and I feel like I'm explaining to the AI what human behavior looks like here. Yes, the sort of meme discussion you quote is fairly common, but it's not just "common thing", it's some sort of shared experience that's probably private; you're not sure if everyone else experiences it, but saying you experience it might sound weird to others, and the (usually unneeded) thoughts of potential embarrassment maybe prevents you from doing so. Until someone does, in such a post, and yeah, those take off as the day's lucky 10000 are all sighing a collective "I'm not weird!" sigh of relief. Eye floaters come to mind as an example.
But … that's not the case here. "Who the heck sleeps with a Fan (sic) and AC on?". Heck, that odd capitalization just makes it even more uncanny valley. Like Zuckerberg really is a robot, and he's just tried a new social subroutine out on me.
Who the heck eats Food?