Y big company has acquired Z smaller company

I'm to the point now that when I see any news at all about "Y huge company has acquired/absorbed/bought/purchased Z smaller company," my initial, kneejerk reaction is to just sigh wearily/sadly/in annoyance/with rage/apathetically/etc. and think "Fuck you, Y" and/or "Rest in peace/piss, Z," depending on who Y is and who Z was.

The catalyst for this particular post was some news thing I saw in Google News app, something like "Ziff Davis has bought CNET for $100 million" or some shit. I have no meaningful connection to either Ziff Davis or CNET at all, and don't really care about either, and yet my initial, kneejerk reaction was still "RIP CNET."

(I had initially used X and Y in the above, but changed it when I remembered halfway through that "X" is the actual name of a very shitty company now. Not that there aren't probably companies out there explicitly named "Y" or "Z" either, but still.)

"Trump’s Latest Attack on Kamala’s V.P. Pick Hilariously Backfires"

"Did Donald Trump just say he shouldn’t be allowed to vote?"

Trump and the Trumpanzees (worst band name ever): *blasts Kamala Harris for picking a VP candidate who implemented a policy allowing convicted felons to vote*

Also Trump: *is a convicted felon*

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JD Vance certainly had opinions about Harris's VP pick, too, which I won't bother to link to here, because fuck JD Vance. All I have to say in response to Vance, though, is that Harris certainly did a better job of picking a VP than Trump did.