TL:DR - The stuff that comes in tabloids is the product of an idiot industry. It's stupid and a poor representation of reality, as it covers only the dumbest part of the human race.

I see a trend where a lot of you (mostly young guys with a phone on their hands maybe) keep bringing up quotes from tabloid news outlets with clickbait titles and sensationally stupid content. Some of what they say is true for mainstream society, but a lot of it is absolute trash that's only ever relevant to the dumbest of our race. It's often written by the kind of people, if you do a background check on them and their history, you will wonder as to just how such utterly brain damaged buffoons were even allowed to get their hands on a keyboard.

In the age of tabloids and twitter and social media, every fool can pass off as a sage, every opinion can pass off as sage logic, and BS can pass off as sage wisdom. But in actual behavior, you might find yourself seeing a very different society from the one that these s**t papers would like you to see. If you base your conclusions based on tabloid s**t, it most likely means you're not observing actual people and society enough for you to separate the grain from the chaff. It's confirmation bias at work.

I have at one point fallen into the trap of reading news online, and now I deeply regret it. Over time Google just personalized my news feed into whatever junk that sells and gets clicks rather than any kind of actual news about what goes on in my town or country or any kind of useful stuff. Virtually everything that crops up is an opinion ad for social engineering. Actual news websites aren't that much better. Much of online news these days looks like bots are writing them.

And the worst part? It's all junk. You feed your mind with this junk that you are going to forget within 4-24 hours, wasting a lot of brain cells for stuff that isn't useful to you in real life any way. And it's fucking your attention span.

A decade back, newspapers prioritized content and facts, wrote good English, covered a wide variety of essential stuff, and when they weren't talking about celebrities and their brain damage, they even had some useful advice on all kinds of topics - finance, investing, cooking recipes, art and craft, hobbies, events and meetups, books, classifieds, jobs, actual scientific research, sports, style, legal advice, interviews of some actually useful folk, even fitness.

Hell, they even had crosswords and all kinds of puzzles and stuff I could actually work on with a pen and paper for my brain's amusement.

The kind of stuff that's in these tabloids, if you're spending any kind of significant time reading this BS, and even quoting it up here, discussing it and taking that as an actual representation of reality -- it means you have way too much idle time where you're not doing anything productive, nor are you able to actually connect with the vast reality outside your bedroom. Maybe you don't get a real newspaper in real paper delivered to your door, or maybe you don't subscribe to the official e-paper edition either.

Now a days Google just feeds me that stuff which my 5-year old self could have outwritten - it's horribly biased in favor of tabloid news. When it is not BS, it's all selective and sensationalist reporting -- and it's almost all negative and frankly toxic stuff. This negativity crap unfortunately does sell. Fear, panic, rumors, agitation, opinions, emotions -- it's all about stressing you out. And the very fact that it does tells you just how brain dead people are if all they want to do is read about XYZ celebrity's cleavage and what color of shoe they wore today. Just eschewing shit news means you are already one step closer to actually doing something productive with your spare time.

The TV isn't that much better. All these guys and gals just blabbering non-stop all day and repeating the same footage dozens of times and being paid to just spout BS and make some noises 24x7 for the TRP ratings. Nowhere has TV been as close to it's nickname "Idiot Box" as it is now. The Average American IIRC spends 13.6 years killing his brain cells on that stuff. With google feed, FB feed and all other feeds, probably twice as much.

So next time you are tempted to quote the next clickbait tabloid article or Twitter post, do remind yourself that what you're seeing is only the really dumbest, and most broken side of reality. The media industry right now is a brain numbing, idiotic, shock attention seeking industry. Idiots write their BS there, idiots chase every detail of other idiot's lives, more idiots publish them, even more idiots bother to read them, and the dumbest of us all actually get influenced by it and think that's reality. You might actually look around your neighborhood for a change and actually find there are sensible people doing actually sensible stuff out there.

You can also test and filter out people who take things in tabloids too seriously or watch too much news on TV. It's a clear sign they're too young, or dumb, or have too much idle time, or all of that.

So for once, I picked a couple of newspapers I knew had good content and actually subscribed to the real thing. Frankly the difference is unbelievable. I can't believe it honestly how good it is when you read real news, good content and selectively use the internet only for productive stuff you actually need to remember and put into action.