I don't know who are they, but they could just curate their online experience by looking for something that is actually organic and genuine, and drop their anchors on that.
The problem is not new. Just that the stuff is more expensive than just steaming vegetables and meats then put them through the blender, and in some developing countries, for poor families it's rice or wheat gruel.
Americans aren’t overweight because of the “ultra-processed” portion of our high-calorie high-salt diet. Americans are overweight because our diet is high-calorie and high-salt!
And with so much entertainment comes increasingly larger sedentary lifestyles.
There's also a Greasemonkey script called Clean My Feeds which gives the enduser sufficient control to curate their Facebook experience by getting rid of some annoyances.
The world's polarized even more with this slop. It's affecting everyone, and worse, not just corporations literally normalizing AI -- influencers telling people to go out make some more slop for millions in fuck-you money -- but even governments convinced this is bonanza and all must wear the mark of the beast.
I'd rather have the percentage on and with slightly larger digits, because at more than a feet away from the phone screen hard to tell how much battery charge is left without the percentage.
What's mostly keeping those platforms afloat is, unfortunately, people in developing countries where social media usage is very heavy to the point it's literally its own internet such as Facebook's walled garden.
I don't know who are they, but they could just curate their online experience by looking for something that is actually organic and genuine, and drop their anchors on that.