Amelia Lester

Because it's all basically kind of like a show that they're putting on to make money.

It's kind of gonzo, right?

It's not just platforming, it's kind of like spurring them on, like giving them content.

Is that the critique?

I'd heard that.

Because your body's hanging on to the genetic material.

Like now that we're talking about this because he drew our attention to it, I don't know if that's like good.

No one's serious anymore.

And it got me thinking about the fact that I remember when in the early days of Twitter, everyone had in their bios, RTs do not equal endorsements.

Retweets do not equal endorsements.

The idea was that if you posted something that someone else had posted, you weren't saying you agreed with it.

You just thought it was important to get that idea into the circulation for whatever reason.

It was newsworthy.

It was provocative.

It was interesting.

But I think the issue now is that we are being led and influenced and governed by people who don't believe what they're peddling and are just saying it to get attention.

But the line between just saying it and living it has gotten completely blurred.

The comedian Tig Notaro was on the Best People podcast recently.

This is hosted by a news anchor called Nicole Wallace.

And she said something about friendship, which really struck a chord on the internet.