Well, remember, Journalists have been able to "just search" an Internet that was slowly being taken over by corporations hell-bent on enshittification for about 20 years now.
So now they are Just Searching (and not using hashtags or following people) in mastodon servers and not getting everyone's inchoate thoughts on migration and assuming they're 'dead'.
I'm an elder millennial so I'm just waiting for the "Millennials are killing lazy journalism by leaving sites that are demanding payment to be treated shittier" articles...