The most concerning personal moment I had on something like this is when I was summoned for jury duty. 

It was for a lawsuit. Something about wrongful injury in a building, I forget. The plaintiffs attorney had us all in a court room with the judge, and was asking each of us, individually, different questions. Among those questions was “Where do you get your primary sources of news”. Exactly myself and one other person actually said written news sources. I tend to like Washington Post, will read the NYT other times, and then usually local newspapers for local news, pretty much all written sources. This other guy was roughly similar. 

Everyone else? Facebook. TikTok. Instagram. Twitter. All of them said explicitly they preferred the short form video format for news. It was an eye opening and rather scary experience. Nobody fucking reads. They don’t even read headlines. They let some random airhead on one of the 20 second clip services tell them what to think. 

So when you get in to an argument with someone on reddit, and you’re arguing because it’s clear they only read like the first paragraph or two of an article and shot off half-cocked? I want you to know you’re still likely dealing with like the upper 5% of people who even bother to read at all, because everyone else won’t even do that.