Pretty much everything remotely sensational on the internet serves as a distraction from what is literally happening in the physical real world around us, of course the net is cast very wide to catch as many different people as possible, celebrity stuff, sportsball, porn, tv shows, movies, social media in all its forms, the "news" you name it if most of the total attention invested takes place online (formerly television) it's part of the net. Of course that doesn't mean it's intrinsically "bad" to like sports or tv shows or whatever but it's important to watch the balance. If someone is investing way more time reading/talking about qanon or wef or frankly anything else on the internet, versus investing time being observant and engaged in the literal real world that is their own community and real life in person experience, then they are caught in the net. People don't get truly motivated and involved without frequently and lucidly observing the real world. What is more alarming, reading something about the wef or paying 2+ times more for a loaf of bread vs just a few years ago? When people are directed to discussions and memes and shit online they are being invited to join the circus. Talk with them about real life, the housing market, gas prices, food prices, what school is like for their kids now, talk with them about real shit that impacts them directly first.