Someone's Google News Tab Is Having a Very Specific Kind of Week

Somewhere in Maumee, Ohio, a man named James Woodward died. He was 88. A separate James Charles Williams was laid to rest on July 30, per John F. Murray Funeral Home. A third, James Charles Peressini of Great Falls, Montana, went earlier in the year. All three left behind families. All three left behind obituaries. All three obituaries, for the record, have now been indexed alongside the news of a person who is very much alive and very much a YouTube personality with 25 million subscribers.

This is the third documented wave. The feed does not appear to be slowing. At some point the quantity stops being a coincidence and starts being a genre. The subject in question has not addressed the situation, which is understandable, because what would you even say.