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And then it's almost like a battle amongst themselves of who can monetize public grief and intrigue

like the quickest, with as many articles as they can possibly squeeze out of the situation.

And as they do that, it starts to feel quite exploitative and everything quickly becomes sensationalized to the point that, to me at least, it feels like it becomes less about the actual person who has passed and more about how can news outlets just find new ways to keep people clicking.

And every celebrity death is the same.

And again, I say this having worked

at these outlets.

It starts with, you know, the breaking news of this person has passed at this time on this day.

And then there's the follower particles with like tributes from those closest to them.

Then these tributes from people who maybe vaguely knew them, but reached out to journalists directly just to get,

their name in articles and then you get those who have like briefly crossed paths with whoever's passed away who are then spamming socials you know with their one picture with them from eight years ago and again it starts to feel just less about paying respects and the actual person who's passed away and more just like this free-for-all for people to get

clicks and ad revenue and Instagram likes and and I even acknowledge the hypocrisy of me here on a podcast about to get clicks from the same situation and you know at the same time as this all happens the media and you'll see it's probably already started I haven't really been online much today but you'll see new headlines which are always like they're haunting final words or see their last pictures as you know they dig out whenever the last time they were popped and then

You know, in a few days, I assume we're going to see paparazzi out trying to get pictures of maybe Mel's husband and daughter or maybe John Aiken or just anyone she was close to, to capture them like grieving and then sell their visible grief to the newspapers, magazines, anyone who will pay for it.

And then it just keeps going until the funeral.

And that just becomes like a media frenzy a lot of the time.

And...

Yeah, I don't know.

As I said, it does all make me feel a bit uneasy.

And maybe I'm just being cynical here again because I've worked in that world and know that most of the time the people writing these articles, the editors pushing for more articles on whatever the latest revelation is from this person dying, they actually don't care themselves personally.

They just want to make money through ad revenue.

And as I said, it always just feels like these things quickly go away from the actual person who has passed and like,