Makes me want to puke.
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's fan-created GoFundMe page ends after dismal showing: report | Fox Business
Meghan Markle, Prince Harry's fan-created GoFundMe page ends after dismal showing: report | Fox Business
Badge. My friend. Why would it make you sick? Don't do that.
I've worked in a couple media adjacent fields, so I have half a feel for such things. This is a set of kinda of fascinating elements of the media landscape.
This is outrage cotton candy. It's a story that people get low-key irked by and they share. And that's good for the outlet, cynical in it's approach. You can get a lot of traffic by saying something as simple as "Kids sure are crappy and ungrateful." You could write that at any point, and folks would heartily agree. This is something different. This is "look at this freak."
This person is at worst a weirdo, at best, a knowing grifter. And after getting highlighted by a national outlet, it can only help feed the weirdness or the grift. And here's the thing, we've had weirdos and grifters since time began, but we didn't have a way to highlight them quite as we do now. Or as profitably as we do now.
Someone started a stupid gofundme, either because they're an sincere moron or they were trying to steal. No one cared. This is not a story or important. I could start a gofundme right now that says "Raise money to support 847BadgerFan after he was canceled for saying that racial slur." I could do that right now. It wouldn't mean you were canceled or said a slur or that I was seriously raising money for you.
This is a weirdo being weird and a national outlet feeding us stupid content that bothers a lot of people because it's stupid. I don't think any of the weirdos on the board make you want to puke for any reason (hopefully), so no reason for some weirdo you'll never meat or wouldn't think about outside an outlet making them a freak show to either.