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ironically, i've sort of done this at a smaller scale among some of the communities im in, and you would not believe how stupid people are, even when you literally inform them to their face that you're saying stupid shit for the purposes of saying stupid shit.
rage bait is incredibly effective and there's a reason everything using it goes so far. It's innate to the human psyche.
oh and by the way, for anybody who thinks this is like unethical or whatever, trust me, they LOVE eating it up. You would not believe how much shitpost you can do, before people realize that you might be shitposting.
I ended up abandoning most of my online 'friends' because their entire vocabulary devolved into thought stopping cliches, canned meme responses to almost every situation, apathy, Schrödinger's Irony style statements that are either 'obviously ironic jokes' or 'completely sincere and serious' depending on their immediate reception...
Just completely duplicitous hypocrites, actively mocking any attempt to have a serious conversation about a serious subject... but highly interested in having extremely lenghty discussions about trivial, unimportant topics, in ambiguous, inconsistent and highly emotionally charged vocabulary, with anecdotally, vibes based 'logic' always trumping actual empirical data and properly backed theories.