Andrew Manganelli

And his quote tweet got like almost as many likes as the post.

And then I saw him post later like, wow, my posted numbers.

I was like, you didn't make a post.

You just quote tweeted my post.

I was like, what the fuck?

What is social media anymore?

It's just like big competition.

I've been thinking about this so much for the last couple of years.

I'm less and less inclined to say anything on social media anymore because it feels like the incentive structures are all leaning towards people having opposing opinions to you.

Most inflammatory possible response will be

rewarded the most yeah exactly exactly and so like having any opinion or posting anything people are just going to come for you and it's like why am i even putting this out into the world if i'm just inviting people to scream at me i'm going to clip that put it on tiktok good then i'm going to repost it after you do we live in the clip economy now baby yeah so anyway david thank you for uh explaining that to me because i had no idea what they were talking about till they tagged me in it thank you for your service thank you for your service to the world you're welcome it deserves a pulitzer

This is my new trivia starting gesture.

The timeout gesture.

That wasn't the one with the light bars, was it?

It was.

Oh, shoot.

I didn't have that one.

I had the one that folded in half.

That, like, folded over itself.

The Pixelbook.