Clickbait = temptation, if you want to get religious about it. That's what demons always do in the stories. They tempt. They assault the saint with clickbait.
But only tabloids would fairly consistently cross the line that distinguishes a "vivid account" of something from something borderline false.
You could say that the internet, more specifically the need for "virality" engineered a race to the bottom that turned publishers into tabloid sites.
It's like having a hundred people in your living room all the time.
If you want a clear but depressing example, visit a digital archive and contrast issues of scientific American from the beginning and end of the 1990s. At the beginning of the decade it offered a serious presentation of science news/insights for a general audience (more accessible than an academic paper, but still requiring work to read, similar to a textbook). By the end of the decade standards had fallen considerably as their audience shrank and they went in the direction of greater 'accessibility' with more gee-whiz articles, columnists etc, and even introducing a larger body text font to reduce the content while maintaining the same page count.
It seems to me that the main drivers were popular access to the internet and a general drop in attention spans, along with the proliferation of cable TV channels during the same period, and the rise of '24 hour news' outlets like CNN and Fox News, both of which are cancerous. Television in general is trash, with an endless focus on effects and visual gimmicks designed to hypnotize rather than inform or educate.
Like I get what they were going for, but unless we know that the matter that we are made of is there in this image than it is a scientific inaccuracy that I wish we did not actively spread.
Now I know that we are looking into the past here, but unless my understanding of space is wrong the only way this would actually be true is if our sun (and other related material) moved faster than the speed of light.
At least that is how I read the headline, that the image shown is (or would be) the material that makes us up now.
Without heavy elements from collapsing stars we can't exist, so in a real sense the birth of these stars is a very early step in humanity's existence.
There's nothing about humanity's distant past or even the universe's past at all.
This is a filler article, at most.
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
Well, then can I roam beside you?
I have come to lose the smog,
And I feel myself a cog in somethin' turning
And maybe it's the time of year
Yes and maybe it's the time of man
And I don't know who I am
But life is for learning