system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why do we tend to "like" negative news/information more than positive one?
gpt
Positive things happening are far more common, so people think they're boring. Once you've seen an airplane land, then you feel like you've seen a million. So a headline that says "100000 AIRPLANES LAND SAFELY TODAY: Skilled pilots brave varied weather conditions and irritated passengers!" doesn't sound very interesting compared to "PASSENGER AIRLINER FLIES INTO THE SIDE OF MOUNT EREBUS: Many feared dead!"

It's something innate in the human experience to desire to put things into a narrative context. We like stories. When something scary or negative happens, we instinctively hook onto it like it's the start to a grim novel, despite the fact that it's actually our waking reality. (That sounds horribly depressing (and it is) but this is why there needs to be a great drive in yourself to find how to help, and find people who want to help.)