I feel like they had a meeting and decided “we have to be dumber.”

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

I hear what you guys are saying about the Oscars, and how they're a celebration of life, and the show must go on, blah-blah-blah, so-on-and-so-forth. It all makes a degree of sense, but to me it still feels like Nero fiddling while Rome burns. Or in this case, wearing fancy clothes while LA burns.

"I think we have this idea that we're gonna make friends with bad guys and bend them to our will, and really we're just...friends with bad guys."
--The Diplomat, S2 E4

(I've been binge-watching this, and it is excellent.)