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You heard me. Starting with the Tiktok ban on the 19th. I think it will do you all some good ā¦.use the time to self reflect on why the fuck you always assume the whole world is in your time zone or season
Jan 14, 2025
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š¢Thinking about how Gen Zās woke politics/moral superiority complex have combined with our satirization epidemic and now you have to preface REASONABLE THINGS with ānot to be to be that friend thatās too woke butā¦ā so as to not get caught in any crossfire whatsoever.
Gen Z was raised on aesthetics and now wokeness and radicalism is just aesthetics instead of action and discomfort. I think we burnt ourselves out on 2020 woke policing and people have felt relief in recent years while realizing that you donāt have to be a perfect angel or so online discoursey all the time. But ITS GONE TOO FAR
Much of Gen Z are sardonic self infantilized meanies with a Moral Superiority Complex and unwilling to take any risks because itās all about self curation and presentation
Maybe Iām doing it now too with this post. But tbh we could really benefit from some social justice warrior shit rn. I need Real Men are Feminists shirts again
SAY WOKE SHIT. POLICE YOURSELF AND YOUR FRIENDS. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL
Gen Z was raised on aesthetics and now wokeness and radicalism is just aesthetics instead of action and discomfort. I think we burnt ourselves out on 2020 woke policing and people have felt relief in recent years while realizing that you donāt have to be a perfect angel or so online discoursey all the time. But ITS GONE TOO FAR
Much of Gen Z are sardonic self infantilized meanies with a Moral Superiority Complex and unwilling to take any risks because itās all about self curation and presentation
Maybe Iām doing it now too with this post. But tbh we could really benefit from some social justice warrior shit rn. I need Real Men are Feminists shirts again
SAY WOKE SHIT. POLICE YOURSELF AND YOUR FRIENDS. EVERYTHING IS POLITICAL
Apr 23, 2025
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š£we need to start quoting movies from the 2000ās again in protest of tik tok speak
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š¹the social internet (and rapid, inescapable commercialization thereof) makes it so that you are what you consume, not what you do, not where you go, not who you spend your time with. before if you bought the clothes or the gear without doing it or without being in community, you were a poser. if you monetized or commercialized that interest and put those incentives over expression and connection, you were a sellout. but that doesnāt exist anymore ā democratization and anti-gatekeeping as both ideas and ends of an algorithm to maximize surface area for consumption have made it so that there isnāt a distinct authority on what you can attach to your identity or how you express yourself
but if the extent of our agency in a democratized landscape is to only to consume more instead of producing or connecting, or to produce only to commodify ourselves for money or internet points, then maybe itās a different kind of ābeing influenced by social trends rather than authentic interestā than going to a skate park, or an open mic, or a restaurant, or whatever because we heard about it somewhere and wanted to check it out, and de-centering the internet from what we see on it and how we engage with it is a way to make that healthier or more generative for ourselves, and can create beauty without immediately thinking about how to fit into a box along lines drawn by advertisers
but if the extent of our agency in a democratized landscape is to only to consume more instead of producing or connecting, or to produce only to commodify ourselves for money or internet points, then maybe itās a different kind of ābeing influenced by social trends rather than authentic interestā than going to a skate park, or an open mic, or a restaurant, or whatever because we heard about it somewhere and wanted to check it out, and de-centering the internet from what we see on it and how we engage with it is a way to make that healthier or more generative for ourselves, and can create beauty without immediately thinking about how to fit into a box along lines drawn by advertisers
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