Ryan Broderick

So, yeah, like I think this is like very indicative of this moment where –

the professionalization of this hadn't really hit yet.

And so it is like largely like a person gets like the attention of an online mob and then things spiral out of control.

And, and it is very based on sort of like early COVID era, like what you should be doing shouldn't be doing stuff.

Yeah, I mean, the ultimate expression of it is the return of the R word, which like I find loathsome and have no patience for.

I don't care what your politics are.

Like, I don't respect you as a human being anymore.

Yeah.

Even if you're on my side or whatever.

But I think you're right.

I think there is something about like...

COVID happens and a lot of the sort of let's for simplification called the main characters are sort of like, you know, discourse cycles that we see immediately after are clearly reflecting an uncomfortableness about that.

And so and a sort of

It's like people don't know how to talk about it, but they talk about everything else but it in a way.

And I think that that has only gotten worse because it is still a part of our lives.

It is still a thing that people get, and it's going to be part of our lives until we ever deal with it.

And I think people don't really want to face that.

And so you have these little proxy battles around it.

And as the world has become more reactionary, more right wing, and leading up to the second Trump administration,

Some of that is still around, but I think it is interesting that it starts to become almost solely focused on like whatever a young woman is doing.