>Do we really need celebrities to sell it to us??

The idealism in us wants to say "of course not" but consider an experiment: Put this exact quote on any social media in three versions:

1. No pictures, only text
2. With celebrity picture
3. With picture of random unrecognizable person

Which version will automatically drive engagement? And how wide is the gap: a tiny fluctuation, or an astronomical difference?

I wish streaming services weren't presented by graphical tiles and users like me would have to read text synopses to decide what to watch. I imagine that's a very unpopular opinion and nothing like what I want will ever happen.

I was taught it's wrong to judge a book by the cover, but our entire society has deliberately embraced that wrongness at every opportunity.