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Some of Australia's most important Federal Ministries now answer to grown men who are dancing like K-Pop tribute bands on social media, it can be confirmed.
After the sudden and unprecedented fracturing of nearly a century of legacy media, it seems that Australian politicians have no idea to reach Australian voters - outside of degrading dance routines, which are apparently following the trends that are set by teenagers, who are supposed to be banned from the platforms that our politicians must now engage with.
This comes as Australia's commercial TV and radio sector faces the existential crisis caused by several veteran broadcasters departing from traditional media and instead focusing on becoming famous on the internet.
According to young people, there are two options for people who want to succeed on social media, either engage with extremely fringe political issues, or dance like a clown.
It is believed the sudden pivot of Gen-X media personalities towards algorithms comes from the jealousy of seeing completely unqualified talking heads get far more online engagement than traditional media.
This is why we now have stand-up comedians complaining about tax law, and former breakfast presenters now platforming anti-vaxxer nazis.
Meanwhile, our nation's once stalwart commercial media brands like Channel Nine and Macquarie Radio are solely dependent on sports broadcasting deals, which in turn keep them afloat with the golden handcuffs of online sportsbetting advertisements that redirect the Australian public to even more dangerous algorithms.
In all of this noise, it is hard to relay political messaging to Australians.
Be that election policies, or upcoming changes to critical public services. With the decline of 'broad-casting' - this information must be delivered through social media.
And social media only prioritises outrage and grievance-charged content.
So those who do not wish to spend their lives complaining about how fucked this country is, must simply dance.
And dance they will.
