The way “none of these things are indicative of my worth, because I’m no longer assigning value to them” hit me 🥹 Such an amazing read. Thank you for this. Really grateful for vivthemole for sharing because I immediately got sucked in and thoroughly enjoyed your writing.
i'm so glad this resonated with you :,) i love how easy it is to share other people's writing and perspectives, and i'm grateful for that feature as a newly self-identified writer. the substack community really is so awesome!!
I really like this essay and it does identify a specific niche of people who have no actual online audience but still fall prey to the incomprehensible very online trends. I I think in general the growth of media consumption as identity marker(as other forms of identity have weakened) has led to a real warping of things. People are so paranoid regarding their own motives regarding the seemingly fun things they do that there's a lot of unvented anxiety regarding our own sincerity, which leads alternatively to both projection as well as romatanication of some mythical "normie" that's spared from all this anxiety.
The way “none of these things are indicative of my worth, because I’m no longer assigning value to them” hit me 🥹 Such an amazing read. Thank you for this. Really grateful for vivthemole for sharing because I immediately got sucked in and thoroughly enjoyed your writing.
i'm so glad this resonated with you :,) i love how easy it is to share other people's writing and perspectives, and i'm grateful for that feature as a newly self-identified writer. the substack community really is so awesome!!
the pyramid is SO good!!! have definitely been guilty of normie-bashing lol
thank you for the kind words! it's been relieving to know i'm not the only one who falls into the trap of doing that too haha!
I really like this essay and it does identify a specific niche of people who have no actual online audience but still fall prey to the incomprehensible very online trends. I I think in general the growth of media consumption as identity marker(as other forms of identity have weakened) has led to a real warping of things. People are so paranoid regarding their own motives regarding the seemingly fun things they do that there's a lot of unvented anxiety regarding our own sincerity, which leads alternatively to both projection as well as romatanication of some mythical "normie" that's spared from all this anxiety.