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| You never searched for him. The internet searched for you. |
At no point in your life did you sit down, pour yourself a coffee, and think: "You know what I need today? More Clavicular." You didn't Google him. You didn't ask your friends about him. You certainly didn't lose sleep wondering what he was up to.
And yet — here we are. You know his name. You know his face. You know some deeply unnecessary detail about his personal life that burrowed into your brain uninvited, set up furniture, and absolutely refuses to leave.
This is not a coincidence. This is a system.
Nobody asked. Nobody cares. The media did not care that nobody cared.
The coverage arrived in waves — relentless, unsolicited, aggressive in its cheerfulness. A mention here. A headline there. A photograph on a page you opened looking for literally anything else. The algorithm spotted your mild, accidental curiosity — the kind generated by being alive and near a screen — and mistook it for passionate devotion.
By Tuesday you knew his mother's name. By Thursday you had opinions about his career arc. By the weekend you were, somehow, invested.
You did not consent to any of this.
The truly remarkable thing about Clavicular is not anything he has done, said, or represented. It is the sheer industrial machinery deployed to ensure his omnipresence in a world that, polled honestly, would unanimously vote to spend that attention elsewhere — on a war, a cure, a recipe, a moderately interesting cloud formation. Anything.
Instead: Clavicular. Again. Still. Forever.
The media, to its credit, operates on a beautifully circular logic: we cover him because people click; people click because we cover him; therefore, the people demand it. The demand, of course, was manufactured in a factory somewhere between a slow news cycle and a quarterly engagement target. But by the time anyone notices, you've already read four paragraphs about him, which means — statistically — you're part of the problem.
We all are.
There is no unlearning him now. That ship has sailed, been photographed extensively, and covered across seventeen platforms. His name occupies valuable cognitive real estate that could have housed, say, the capital of a country, a useful medical fact, or the lyrics to a song you actually like.
Instead: Clavicular.
You're welcome. Somebody, somewhere, decided you needed this. They were wrong. They did it anyway.
That's the world we live in — and nobody, least of all Clavicular, is sorry.