>>2146892People happened.
"I went outside and it was nice, here's a picture of a bird I couldn't identify" is never going to pull as many eyeballs as I guy who spent 99 cents on a folding knife and a guy who spent $1000 on a folding knife calling each other names is going to.
And if it doesn't pull eyeballs and get comments, right off page 10 it goes, whereas shit threads can float forever on "nuh uh, my brother's cousin's uncle's best friend's baby mama's husband tried to open a can of paint with an Ozark Trail multitool once and it blew his hand clean off" until past bump limit.