As an example, there's an Android video game called Splash Wars. It has algorithmically generated levels with no sense of progression. In some sense it's not a good game, in that there's no narrative, no progression, no increasing cleverness. But I have played an embarrassing number of levels of it because for me it's soothing to have something modestly challenging but ultimately familiar. I realized that there are some video games I use to think. With the ADHD lets-go-ride-bikes portion of my brain pacified, I can ruminate on problems that I might otherwise get distracted from.

Similarly, I suspect that bullshit articles fill other unspoken needs for people. That in the morning over cereal, maybe what I want from my newspaper is not actual news so much as news-shaped or news-flavored textual product. Maybe I want comfortable familiarity or confirmation of my biases.

So I hope you're write, that others start asking those same questions. That the coming vast bullshit surplus puts many of us off it for good.