One aspect of it is that this place springs up whenever there's "actual news" going on, it was that way on the sub too.
I would agree with you that there's a larger trend, I just think that it's important to account for the usual short term effects of not very much happening as well.
I feel like there's so much happening right now, but people are checked out and in their lil quarantine bubbles feeling a paradoxical mixture of fear and apathy.
One aspect of it is that this place springs up whenever there's "actual news" going on, it was that way on the sub too.
I would agree with you that there's a larger trend, I just think that it's important to account for the usual short term effects of not very much happening as well.
I feel like there's so much happening right now, but people are checked out and in their lil quarantine bubbles feeling a paradoxical mixture of fear and apathy.