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[–] miridius@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

why

Because it's a business, there are people out there profiting from it and so it keeps growing

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's the usual explanation that's given, but how do they even profit? What do you sell to those idiots? (I suppose that since they're idiots you can just sell them pretty much anything)

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Probably the YouTube views alone make for a pretty penny.