Marcela

So I create an interesting body of semi-abusive content to draw attention away from the false claims to my often funny debunking of it.

For example, a prominent attorney on X accused me of being wrong on my pandemic commentary because I tend to trust institutional data.

I saw a need to remind his followers that I'm the creator of Dilbert comic and have been mocking institutional data for more than three decades.

Sometimes I think no one on the planet distrusts institutional data more than I do.

A recurring theme of my daily live streams involves reminding people to distrust data.

in any source and why.

The attorney's pose got a lot of attention and amplified existing misconceptions about me that were, in my opinion, an obstacle to my good intention of being a useful public voice.

So I sprayed some insults in his direction on X.

along with some debunking to make sure as many people saw the correction as saw the initial claims.

Fake news can get 20 times the attention of a correction.

So I tried to solve for that problem by creating more of a spectacle and sometimes being more of a jerk than observers feel it's appropriate.

Don't be like me.

My situation is unlikely to be relevant to people who are not public figures.

I only mention it because my actions will seem inconsistent if you don't have the context.

I think she capitalized all her posts on YouTube, like in the chat, in capital letters.

Remember that?

Oh, yeah.

But that means you're drunk.

He would reframe it as if you capitalized all your words that you were drunk.

You got to explain that one.