I'm not seeing this talked about enough, but the current hot thing is to sell fear and panic. Completely unremarkable financial advice youtube channels have a chicken little style clickbait upload just about every day and it keeps getting those clicks. China has been "collapsing" since 2014. The US Dollar has been "replaced" about a billion times. A bunch of horse shit. Exact same thing is happening with Ukraine Russia war reporting. Russia is collapsing, eh? Well.... we're waiting!

We live in an age of shortened attention spans.

Boring, measured analysis with no pictures or memes or drama doesn’t get enough clicks, means no ad revenues - means owners choose what sells best. And what sells best are captivating stories about international espionage, sprinkled with drama and interlaced with fearmongering and empathetic storytelling about little guy who’s suffering unjustly.

Hence the abundance of clickbaity article about TOTAL AN IMMINENT COLLAPSE PLEASE CLICK HERE PLEASE in YouTube videos and article headlines.

Choose your journalist carefully and follow those that have high quality standards. Do not lower yourself to the kind of tabloid stuff our Scotsman here loves to post.