A massive waste of time and resources used to distract people from the pressing issues of the day while having no significant impact on anyone's lived experience other than the gawping. Celebrity might be the end of our shit
We're on the same team. I hope my post helps people understand how celebrity and wealth can potentially create a novel and evolving sort of lawlessness in the judicial system thanks to modern technologies we haven't had effective legislation for yet. Actually one of the only things that most everyone agrees on in my geographically local social circles is that mainstream social media platforms are destroying us. There are minor disagreements on the details. Will the market correct? Probably not, and at least partially because Boomers (see elsewhere in this tread). Boomers (not all!) who warned us not to believe shit on the internet and then believed basically everything they ever encountered on the interent.
You need to read this book. Celebrity and gossip fill a useful role in societies modern and ancient. Denying both is naive; understanding their useful and toxic effects will give you a greater insight into humanity and allow you to bitch about things that are actually wrong rather than things that offend your fundie heart.