This week’s results provide a useful reminder that the Attention-Whore Index is not necessarily an unpopularity poll, or a comeuppance for those with chronic neediness. There are instances where calling attention to people who are calling attention to themselves shouldn’t automatically be taken as a reproach.
For example, our current polling has the moon—the moon!—in second place, at 18.5 percent (tied with Elon Musk). Who doesn’t like the moon? Yet one can’t ignore the fact that as gestures go, eclipsing the sun for a couple of hours smacks of more than a little look at me me me.
