As the TV show “Supernanny” taught us, intelligent toddlers often discover that while negative attention isn’t as nice as positive attention, it’s still attention and it’s a lot easier to get. When those kids grow up and become podcasters, they sometimes remember the trick, and post things like this tweet from Chris Hladczuk:
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There’s no social media equivalent of “the naughty step”, unfortunately; the nearest equivalent would probably be the practice of checking up on someone’s credentials on LinkedIn: