https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/93bwa5/facebook-ads-told-me-to-become-a-certified-cryptozoologist-so-i-did

With precarious jobs made even more uncertain during the pandemic, it’s perhaps no surprise that remote learning is booming. Faced with low-paying, dead-end work, many people are quitting their jobs and re-assessing their careers, sometimes learning an entirely new skill set in the process.

So when Facebook’s typically useless advertising algorithms finally suggested an exciting and fulfilling new career in the field of cryptozoology—well, it was a tough proposition to turn down.