At first it was all about presenting data in an original looking way. In the end it was about pushing political ideas in your throat using a plain bar graph. It was not about sharing something interesting you found but about taking advantage of a captive audience.
It’s a mind-shortcut taking piss out of the blatant centrist mindset of criticising the left and defending the right by saying shit like “you cannot censor people you disagree with!” while talking about people posting bonafide hate speech and mistaking it for freedom of speech.
Something something Popper’s Paradox and Nazi Bar analogy.