This literally doesn't happen. It's just a step towards gentrification and pricing people out of their own homes. I lived through this happening to my home town, and... it literally is a dramatic split right along the old railroad tracks between "this side of town" and "that side of town."
It's funny, I was literally having this exact conversation with my wife last night.
It's actually, as others have said, surprisingly likely. You're not precisely "losing weight" so much as you are "becoming more dense," at least in part. Like, yeah, you're burning fat, but you're also building muscle.
The big up-side is that muscle burns more calories than fat under the same circumstances, so as you do this -- as you convert more of your overall weight into muscle -- you'll notice that you continue that process more and more efficiently. (I say as an overweight person who hasn't benefited from this process in a very long time...)
As a subscriber of antischool and a promoter of self-guided learning, I'm for people freeing themselves from school so long as they're not hurting anybody to do it.
I feel like Reddit had two kinds of celebrities, though:
People like dipshit-the-turtle who made themselves famous by being everywhere whether you wanted them or not
And
People like Schnoodle who literally everybody was happy to see whenever they showed up.
Honestly I think PugJesus is more on the latter end. He's not doing anything egregious, he's just posting a shitload of memes to entertain us and make the fediverse funnier. Even if not every meme lands, we can afford to recognize the contribution.
Shit like this happens when the people directly affected by it are prevented by law from voting to protect their own interests. It's easy to target people who are routinely denied their right to remove your ass from office for it.
This literally doesn't happen. It's just a step towards gentrification and pricing people out of their own homes. I lived through this happening to my home town, and... it literally is a dramatic split right along the old railroad tracks between "this side of town" and "that side of town."