New York just hates being outdone by Paris, evidently.
We live in a world of "monkey see-monkey do." If people are not doing things just for that reason, they end up doing things for "like and views" which often can make them money. I read recently of the college student who fell 100 feet to her death in Arkansas. Yes, it is an accident but it is also total ignorance. Then I read of the teen female suicide who was a point of interest to the FBI because she was obsessed with the shooting at Columbine that happened 2 years before she was born. People are insane!