Agreed. The article reads as a halfhearted attempt to mine cultural significance from social media, probably under pressure from a looming deadline or a quota.<p>Also, the tie between &quot;microcomplaints&quot; and &quot;microaggressions&quot; (with the Yale example thrown in) feels lazy and misguided. There&#x27;s plenty to be written about the culture of victimhood vis-a-vis &quot;microaggressions,&quot; and many fine articles have been written about it already. Connecting that issue to, say, Kanye West&#x27;s tweet-gripes about Persian rugs feels glib.<p>The author comes closer to something resembling an interesting point when he talks about Gary Cooper -- though not for the reasons he thinks. One could write a fascinating, if not necessarily profound, article about the difference between yesterday&#x27;s celebrities and today&#x27;s. What seems to compel today&#x27;s stars to blab about the pointless minutiae of their first-class lives on a regular basis? For that matter, why are minutiae being elevated to the level of important cultural discourse? I don&#x27;t know -- probably something to do with the 24-hour news cycle, social media, and the need to fill a content void -- but I&#x27;d love to find out precisely why, and more important, what we can do to reverse the trend.