The Bill Gates AMA (read- Bill Gates' intern texting him questions) was pretty dull, but what just fucking blows my mind was the amount of people gilding his post.
This man is a billionaire, the richest man on the planet (?) and you're throwing money at him willey-nilley because he deigned to look down from his silver cloud in the heavens and condescend to you, a mere mortal? Because there was a 1 in 500 chance that he might consider giving a scripted answer to your question?
This happens when companies and politicians do AMAs too, and it's ridiculous. The flock mentality is astonishing, the need to show off your status even though no one fucking cares that you can spend your Good Boy Points on internet stickers. The need to prove that you're better than what, a bunch of neckbeards and soccer moms looking for old GoT memes? Bill Gates, or Bernie Sanders, or whoever, is just sitting on his ass browsing reddit exactly like you, and yet you need to congratulate him like he's done something for you?
Blows my mind.