sometimes, when people ask a question on social media that could easily be answered with a google search, maybe it's not so much that they're looking for an answer as to make a connection with other people who are also interested in the subject

@corndog the only shred of justification I've ever come across for the whole shitty "RTFM!" attitude was back in the dialup days when heavily metered internet was more prevalent and you can kinda pretend you were doing everyone a favor by discouraging taking up precious bandwidth with foolish or redundant questions

instead the bandwidth gets spent on sneering "RTFM" and picking fights