ok actually i really do need you to understand how hilarious and frustrating it is that you would say this to me.
a long while ago, a few years back, i tried twitter once. i never really got into the habit of regularly checking it or regularly making posts. just, any interaction with the website to find new content felt like i was interfacing with some soulless content algorithm (which i was), so within weeks the twitter account was dead. that is the extent to which i have ever used twitter.
no, i wasn't some guy who "never uses twitter" but actually has a twitter account and goes on twitter all the time to scroll the timeline or whatever the heck. i just straight up was not a person who used twitter. ever.
i DID however frequently use reddit. i'm one of those reddit -> tumblr -> cohost double refugees (except i got on cohost a bit earlier than the big tumblr migration and never did much tumblr in the first place). mainstream reddit is stupid, of course, i was clinging to the far-left queer spaces. and sometimes you would come across a guy who was talking about twitter in a way that makes it obvious they think that twitter takes up a much more significant place in the world than it actually does or ever has. based on your comment here i'm sure you're kind of familiar with what i'm talking about, and what would motivate me to think of such a person as a dingus.
so in the pvp enabled dregs of reddit comment section threads i one day came up with the greatest bit i've ever conceived of. whenever one such dingus appears, i would ask them "what's twitter".
it's a really simple question, and the aim is to put things into perspective in the simplest, most annoying way possible. what do you mean what's twitter? you don't know what twitter is? twitter is where almost all of The Internet is happening, is it not? nope, never even heard of it. weird concept for a website. it's like a blog site except your posts can only be 100 characters long? that's kinda stupid, actually.
but then, as always, elon musk had to go and ruin everything. having managed to somehow fail to rebrand twitter as "x", now everyone i try the bit on just assumes i'm being pedantic about the name. "what's twitter?" i ask. oh, sorry, i mean """"x"""". what am i supposed to do? ask "what's x"? they already think i'm a tool.
my bit. you have to understand, friend. my poor bit. it died so young. and now here you are, having mistaken me for a twitter user. it's as if the universe is mocking me for what elon has done to me.
anyways i really do think you should consider re-considering misanthropy. believing that on average, people are good, just tends to be a really neat philosophy and it's a fundamental idea in a lot of leftist teachings.
