Post #1962532
2025-05-24 20:41 UTC
@keirFox
This is the real scourge of social media. It pushes people to publicize their whole lives. Even worse, it pushes everyone to judge each other's lives, which makes the people who buy in feel like they have to present the perfect image. Nobody can live up to the standards of social media, so their lives become a curated performance rather than an actual life. It's "Keeping Up With The Joneses" turned up to 11.
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@pteryx@dice.camp 2025-05-25 10:48
@VATVSLPR @keirFox Somewhat related: I feel like the root of my popularity on IRC in the late 90s and early 2000s was being significantly creative. But then YouTube came along and my popularity as a person faded, since nobody can compete with all of YouTube and few people seemed to find me interesting outside of that. I could have tried going the influencer route, sure, but I already felt like my IRC channel was a little too centered on me and not a connected community I was simply part of...