• Vilian@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    became popular?, they are just using then to escape reality lol, what take?, the world to became day by day shittier

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      1 year ago

      If you ignore the clickbait title, it’s actually a decent article.

      It gives solid context for their historical use, survey data on its increasing popularity, and dissects many explanations to it’s central question.

      In short, the answer is “because I’ve got shit to do today.”