bruno
@bruno

honestly being good at posting is really easy. all you have to do is warp your personality into a crude human lens that focuses the light of the bonfire of suffering that is the world


hthrflwrs
@hthrflwrs

Posting is the easiest thing in the world. You don't need to be talented, you don't need to be interesting, you don't even need to be funny. All you need to do is let the positive feedback surround you, shape you into what the site wants you to become, and follow that trail day in and day out until you stumble across a hit. Going viral is the easiest thing in the world. I've gone viral a few times. It costs nothing but time; dignity; sense of self. It helps to be experiencing a low-to-middling level of distress or discomfort at all times. There's a Ballmer Peak of suffering that you'll learn to cultivate through cynicism: always staying at that beautiful unhappy point where your wit is laudably acerbic, stopping just short of bitter. You never go viral for what you want to go viral for. Once you accept this, you can let go of any sort of ego. You are a conduit; a machine that crystalizes suffering into the image of suffering. Your takes are perfectly hot, your jokes are perfectly lukewarm, your dunks are perfectly cold. You won't go viral every day, but you'll learn how to go viral any day. The gamble consumes you, becomes you.

Posting is the easiest thing in the world. All it takes is you.


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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:

I often have a hard time telling if people posting are being sincere or not. Asking doesn't help: if someone is sincere, they will say they mean what they said, but if someone is sarcastic... they will say they mean what they said, because the point of sarcasm is that you must not break the illusion. So I don't know if you are sincere or not. But, barring evidence of the contrary, I choose to believe you are being sincere. And that sounds awful.
It's not that I don't want to go viral. Going viral mean I will meet new friends, right? I have never gone viral so I can't confirm it. But if it is at the expense of being me... I think it's important I continue to be too vulnerable and too... well I don't like the concept of "cringe", but I need to continue act in ways that I know people consider cringe but that I like.
What I find darkly funny though, is that I think someone trapped in irony could make the same post: it's not that they don't mean it, it's that they can only express their discomfort through jokes. The performance of online suffering is quite valuable, like you said, and that post would be merely an expression of that. So they would reinforce irony by calling out irony. These days, I'm becoming a sort of Kantian: if I value sincerity, I must act in a sincere manner, simply calling out the problem won't cut it. But like I said, I don't think you were being sarcastic, so I am not calling you out or anything, I'm more talking in general terms.