Something I’ve seen a lot more lately is that algorithms seem to be trending in a fashion similar to advertising did in the birth of consumerism. Like lately, the WNBA gets an overwhelming amount of attention online compared to their actual viewership and ticket sale. The majority of attention given to the WNBA is drama, it’s “this person said this” “look at the bad blood after x foul” etc, they’re selling drama over gameplay to try to get viewers. This reminds me of Bernays and his book Propaganda, where he says to use coercion to sell consumerism and products. One such example is the selling of pianos, to Bernays selling a piano directly is foolish, pianos are expensive, heavy, and require skill to play. However if you sell someone a music room, a place where you have gatherings and social interactions, what could be more iconic than a piano? The piano changes from a space consuming instrument to a focal point in a room, it is what you compare to your neighbors music rooms, what sets your level of sophistication amongst your friends.
This makes me curious how much social media has already altered algorithms to mimic advertising selling lifestyles. We know they do it for political reasons, and maybe this massive WNBA push is just more social engineering to see how far they can cultivate their consumers. It’ll be interesting to see how successful this endeavor is over the next few years as a litmus test of how society is responding to social indoctrination by tech companies.
The WNBA coverage is all social engineering. No one cares about it. A few games will spike a decent rating and the network will treat it as a sign that women's sports is close to breaking out, it's not.
Nah, people are legitimately interested in the overtly racial drama emerging in the wnba. It’s a bunch of black dyke thugs and their white leftist sycophants attacking straight white girls because they are better at basketball. It’s a perfect opportunity to redpill a bunch of young white girls regarding race.
Oh yeah there are definite racial overtones with the Caitlin Clark stuff. Just seeing her get insulted and mugged, and her downplaying and pandering speaks to how the media wishes white people would act.
The media also ramped up the coverage of the social justice shit after the 2020 race rioting.
If you’re “legitimately” interested in lesbians and woke white women fighting you bought the music room. The one thing every wnba player has in common is they hate you.
This is what I expect as well, what’s insane to me is how many “conservative” accounts have been posting about the WNBA at least once a week on drama. It’s clearly because the algorithms are pushing it, but it also shows how easily they steer narratives and posters follow immediately.
Caitlin Clark is a genuinely marketable star but the WNBA is more interested in being a charity for seething, ugly black lesbians.
There is genuine interest in the new class of WNBA stars from more hardcore basketball fans, but the new class is almost entirely White (the popular ones at least) in a Black oriented league and culture. Thus the race war is boosting it similar to the NBA with Bird and Johnson. This one however is occurring during the meltdown of a bunch of racial propaganda and concurring with The Great Noticing, so it appears to be way more toxic and drama-filled than in the past (plus everyone can post their thoughts online).
The NBA downplayed the racial stuff of the Laker/Celtics feud for years.
I mean, when it's Magic Johnson vs Larry Bird, they don't exactly have to spell it out.
The WNBA is getting attention for legit reasons. It is blowing up in the algorithm because they are having their mask off Gamergate moment. The media and the league are making it clear how much they hate their audience, so a lot of people are gathering around to shitpost and to watch the dumpster fire.