everyone loves it when the eggbug does a victimless white collar crime or two
it's not fun. it's marginally better here but it's still not fun.
last time i went Truly Viral (sailor moon hotline pre-shutdown) it cost me nearly $2k over the course of a month. you don't want this.
having a viral tweet is a lot of fun if you love receiving five notifications a second, being purposefully misunderstood by reactionaries, feeling like you're under constant surveillance for 36 hours, being followed by droves of normies who will be unfollowing a day later because they were uncomfortable with the niche adult content you usually engage with, and having your words reposted to 4chan for mockery and published by the daily dot for praise without your consent!
love going viral love having 10k+ followers meaning you are no longer human you are a consumable product to be chewed you do not have a soul and any desire to be removed from the pedestal forced upon you by the insane concept of microcelebrity status or any other complaints about it are reduced to "someone's just mad at being popular" and not being thankful for the gun being held in your mouth as if (gestures to everyone's prior words) is in any way enviable just because posts get seen a little easier
love to see and feel people literally treat you differently or be mad at you or whatever shit is projected onto you for something out of your control that has near-zero percentage transfer into any sort of real life or monetary reward
love being approached at any time with follower count in someone's mind first and anything about me as a person coming third or fourth or later
having someone craft a marionette of you in their mind based on whatever numbers are appended to your account and insinuate the most incorrect shit imaginable feels insane any time i think about it
So, I think part of why cohost isn't terrible is that there... are comment threads. wait no come back. its also maybe that commenting on things doesn't have a chance to shove the interactions to everyone who follows you
But mostly the comment threads. Because the way most randos engage with my twitter is as if I've posted a Topic to Discuss, Without Me Still Being There. Even if it's only a few RTs but it was a line of them further and further out of my circles.
Well, I guess cohost's success is partially that, but also the fact that the naïve/ignorant and reactionaries are busy fighting each other about how much Cohost sucks because it's got a strong, principled bias against math.
