I thought that it was weird that the article just summarizes someone else's Reddit post, but apparently there's a whole industry of online articles that do that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And also articles that just post a couple tweets and act like that's a story. Buzzfeed is fond of this.
Like when Phoebe Bridgers unsuccessfully tried to smash her guitar after playing on SNL and three people on Twitter made posts disapproving and thinking it was insensitive smashing a guitar "during a pandemic" (as if guitars were useful against Covid somehow) and some "news" outlet decided this was a story worth publishing.
I thought that it was weird that the article just summarizes someone else's Reddit post, but apparently there's a whole industry of online articles that do that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
and YouTube channels, probably several other avenues as well. It is strange.
Especially as Reddit is notorious for being full of fake stories.