Spam videos are eating up Caitlin Clark

I do not recommend watching the video below. A friend of mine who thinks that I don’t appreciate Caitlin Clark enough sent me this video. It is pure clickbait. Caitlin Clark just finished up her rookie season in the WNBA. She put some of the best numbers the league has ever seen and has, nearly single-handedly, significantly boosted her not only her own team but the status of the WNBA, in general.

The video breathlessly speculates whether she will come back for another season.

I kid you not: that’s the hypothesis that they start with. For two long minutes, they talk about her social media feeds being “silent” while the world waited to find out whether a tremendously successful, 22-year–old athlete is going to retire from basketball or whether she will “try another sport.”

Caitlin Clark FINALLY SPEAKS And REVEALS Her WNBA Future – THIS Is HUGE! by Basketball Top Stories (YouTube)

This is the trash that people spend their time on. The video is 17½ minutes long. I didn’t listen past the first two minutes because I couldn’t stand it anymore. It’s just hot garbage, just noise posing as information. They make up a facially ludicrous proposition, get their listeners invested in the tragedy of it, then dispel it, providing relief from a notion that they hadn’t believed in five minutes before. It’s pure dopamine-manipulation.

It worked on my friend, who’s more than a little susceptible.