Unfortunately pointless, mostly symbolic things attract the most hysterical reactions from people.

Five billion people followed the Paris Olympics. It’s actually kind of important.

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		How do you even measure that at that scale? I'm sure I would be counted among that 5 billion, yet my "following" was searching medal counts every couple days to see how poorly my country was doing, yet I would never describe it as "important" to me in any way.
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