Well I mean topics like this are fairly low effort and are just meant for a laugh so it's much easier to get engagement. Serious topics in comparison require effort and knowledge to contribute to meaningfully which less people have time or ability to engage with in the same manner.

Also sites like this generally cultivate a base which largely have the same general opinions and views on the more serious stuff, so it's much harder to come up with something that hasn't already been discussed or studied to death.

At the end of the day the impact on the real world of anything that gets posted here is close to zero. Most people just want to have some fun with like minded people which can be hard to find in real life. So tell me, do you sit or stand when you piss?

Effortposting requires effort. If I'm popping off a few comments from the shitter while at work, I have time to crack some jokes but maybe not to solve society's problems

It really says a lot about society

Why can't Hexbears be serious and have 400+ comment threads where each top-level comment is a dissertation. Why do AskHexbear threads that any user can pop into and easily give a 2 word positive or negative answer, always get 200 more comments than threads where nuanced discussion about real world events is actually taking place.

threads like this are how we reach lonely young males and prevent them from going down the right-wing pipeline

I feel the issue here is that you're expecting a niche multinational left unity social network to be organising. I can't speak for everyone, but I come here to socialise and relax with like minded leftists, occasionally offering a bit of online support, and leave the organising and "what can we do here and now with the resources we have access to" for my actual physical location and people I know IRL.