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Pathetic, really. Consumers pretending to care about creators...
Pretty sure most of those who now express "sadness" never knew and never cared about this guy, they just consumed his products. As soon as this "news" (old people die, who'd have thought) hits the fan they produce an artificial stream of fake emotions like automatons. And the next week everything is forgotten and it's another pretentious event that produces faked feelings.
Think I'm harsh?? You can even prove yourself I'm right: Go back in time on the profiles of those who now shed "tears" - you'll not find one single mention of this guy, not one word about him before his death. It happens all the time whenever some "celebrity" dies - suddenly the economy of attention produces fake obituaries and fake emotions in great numbers from people who simply couldn't care less beforehand and will not care next week (very often next day).
Ask them about the still alive creators they care about now - what do they do to help those creators to thrive? Try to find any mention of one of those on their profile - I bet you won't find anything. Crazy isn't it? As if they only care when they can produce some attention for themselves in the wake of an arbitrary moment. Pathetic, really.
I give my condolences to the family and friends (real friends, not the fakers) of that guy.
Man Lemmy is exhausting. Not gonna lie, idk what people are talking about when they say reddit is worse
No matter where you go, you're gonna run into toxic people. The question is the ratio to decent people, and if there are tools to deal with the toxic ones.
This shit basically hijacks every Lemmy thread though. If there's a thread with more than 15 or so comments, you can pretty much guarantee it's either edgy contrarian trolls doing their edgy contrarian thing, or most likely someone whining about how capitalism has ruined the color green or some shit.