Wonder why rage and salt posts often make the front page?

If you were ever wondering why that random shitpost made it to the top of the boards while your post on the same topic hadn't received a word of notice (not any good notice anyway) you may have experienced this before.

There is this phenomenon in human nature where we, whether we think so or not, tend to base our beliefs and actions on feelings as opposed to facts.

Imagine, for a moment, a scientist. A random scientist that you have never seen before but you know is a validated scientist. He says, in essence, that climate change is happening and we should do something about it. Now there may be the few of you who go full gung-ho and start taking public transit everywhere, install solar panels on the roof and place wind turbines everywhere, but the majority of us don't do this. We are likely to do something small or nothing at all. However, when your favourite lol streamer, youtuber, hockey player or politician steps in and says the same thing you actively want to do something about it, even if they don't provide you with any of the facts.

This is common to all humans, and is why many populist movements have taken off over our history. From Ghandi to Mussolini, Hirohito to Hitler, Woodrow to Rosevelt, they all work on the same fact. People don't want facts, they want passion, emotion and feeling. Coming from their favourite person, an emotion or feeling is even more important making their word more powerful. That's why when people like markiplier say that climate change is bad we should do something, people are more likely to act.

So if you ever wonder why your factual post isn't as popular as that random rage post, it may be because to us feelings Trump facts

Note: If you wonder where this came from... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-qfI3DZmmQw