Let's talk a little bit about what this picture, nay this hastily thrown-together pseudo-article, says about society.

Upon the promise of seeing a picture of a very badass cat, riding a fire-breathing unicorn into battle, whilst brandishing a golden firearm, you immediately abandon all hopes for an uninterrupted internet browsing experience, and click on a link chock full of advertisements you'd never dream of ever clicking whilst conscious and capable of rational thought. This is capitalism at its finest. Odyssey Online's primary (and likely solitary) source of income is ad revenue. By clicking on this article, which one of your friends likely shared, you're playing right into their hands, earning them a nifty couple cents per click. After a good, long while, this adds up. (Eh? Eh? Get it? Adds up? Ads up? Ha. Ha-ha. I'm clever.)

While this system works well for the advertisers and the lucky sods who offer up their website for bannering up, this is causing a drastic decline in quality for a lot of websites. Cable news is going for the best material to guarantee viewership, not what is actually educational. (This played a large part in the rise of Trump, but that's a story for a different time.) The History Channel, once a wonderful channel dedicated to education, has fallen to pseudo-reality television. There is zero educational value to "Ice Road Truckers", but it's entertaining.

As an Odyssey writer with a monetary incentive to write, I say that I am guilty of pandering to what will sell. (Hint-hint, How To Overthrow a Government, hint.) Light entertainment articles, or articles laced with superficial sentiment, eclipse those written for the primary purpose of provoking thought. This is how society will meet its downfall. By replacing the strife for self-betterment with an eternal desire for overstimulation, we as a society have devolved a bit. And this will keep on going on.

And that's what this picture means to society.

Good job on reading through this.