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Normies (both male and female and all walks of life) care bigly about trying to jockey for status.

It's an adaptation from back when ostracism from a village was a literal death sentence. And evolved into more-recent conditions. They see almost everything as transactional. Being authentic is scary to them because it means they might lose out on an opportunity to suck a psychopath's dick for a leg up in life or might piss off some BPD retard who then proceeds to stop doing favors for them.
This is really why actually doing what you want bothers them, because they think you're a retard who is going to piss off someone with both a fragile ego and power, and they don't want to be associated with you in case of collateral damage. They may see you as entertaining from afar but they get scared.

However, normies are struggling to grapple with the fact that local social structures now compete with online ones, alongside tech advances. So things that were "respectable" in the past now get you very little in terms of status. They're still important and can make good money, but the social validation has been removed. And there is now the ability to gain a support network which respects things that used to be looked down on, via the internet.
This has created a simmering resentment in your average person who is primarily motivated via social validation, as they mistakenly assume it's a path to resources and stability. But its also gotten to the point where the people who can manipulate normies have gotten very good at it. So they are very careful to just string such people along individually, or exploit this en masse for profit. Garbage food, pill pushing, and it's part of the explosion in what items are seen as luxury/limited edition/insufficiently-produced veblen goods, which has in turn created a big market for scalping.

Total Normie Death. The winning move is to not play their games.

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>shouting clearly worked for them, so why shouldn't the other side do the same?
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The only solution in the present is to just ignore such things. The companies who do it are dead, their soul was sucked out long before they had to pivot to that for greater numbers. They will not listen to the old fans. They actually CAN NOT listen to the old fans, because that would not make the number go up fast enough.

These companies are managed by moneymen who use ragebait marketing, and piggyback onto larger social causes as a way to try to capture fanatics from those demographics.
It's intentional, you are supposed to get mad. Because you getting mad = the fanatics on the other side of whatever controversy the product is piggybacking off of will see it as virtuous to spend money on the product, as a form of social signalling. This makes the number go up faster than making better products, and having stupider customers who buy the thing because it gains them status points, not for reasons like quality, makes selling cheaper things easier.

Everything that has investments is like this now.

None of the people who extract value from these companies have interest in longevity. They would kill a 200 year old company if doing so made them good returns. And you cannot reason with them because, for publicly-traded ones, they aren't human. Literally, I don't mean lizarmen or any of that. I mean that a huge chunk of the investments come from algorithm-driven conglomerates who act as a proxy for millions of random peoples' retirement funds and other small investments. Their leadership is just a figurehead, all the decisions are made based upon statistics and data. It's a bizarre form of collective ownership of large portions of the economy, and the only common interest between so many people is "make number go up".

Smaller, non-investor-captured companies imitate the big ones, not realizing that this kind of stuff is actually bad for a sustainable business.