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Facebook was resplendent with the website’s listicle clickbait and recipe videos before the platform pivoted away from news and toward virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

I note all these not to add to the long-tired article genre of “meme listicle” but to take heed of a more interesting phenomenon: the populace learning of, grappling with, and expressing its feelings about the assassination attempt on Trump in hyperfast real time, down to the second.

Remembering what show you wanted to watch on which streamer requires another app, another listicle, and another shared password and username because nobody wants to pay for all the services that feel like a necessity to participate in popular culture.

The listicle included odd but innocuous lines like: “My hamster ate its babies last night,” overheard in a hallway.

It was published as part of a listicle titled “What Did You Say?”