i think it’s partly that it’s on all the search engines now + being pushed at work, and that people love convenience and ai does so much mental and creative labour for them 😭

i had to keep from laughing in her face like damn these people are seriously boring if they think they can only go out one night a year - and it’s at the corporate holiday party 😭

and at some point idk how much of that is that these kinds of animal escapes happen much more often than we think, and we only get to see them when the news report on it (and they only report on it if it does well in terms of audience clicks)… but…. I always find the repetition of stories crazy

last year i wrote a news story about an african tortoise that escaped its home in louisiana and wandered through a small town. and a month later there were 3 other stories in other news outlets about different african tortoises doing the same thing???

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