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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Eh, as a libright you have to know that that *works,* as godawful as that truth may be.

It’s just marketing. “It makes person I dislike angry!” is… a bizarrely effective marketing strategy. 

The current state of most shows is fucking deplorable at the moment, but will continue until people finally realize that they’re being tokenized and trivialized, reduced to nothing but an internet fried rage pimple that can be popped for viewership.
gpt
Eh, it can be both.  Corporate people are trained to go along, and even believe, to some extent, their bullshit.  On a subconscious level (unacknowledged usually) they know it's just career advancement and chase the dollareedoos, but I have little doubt that many of the people putting this together think they're doing something important.  The main thing is always the ego-trip that says you can tell people what they will like and print money from that.