Taylor Lorenz

And then you had other people getting outraged at that joke content.

And some of those people, Ryan, were shilling crypto coins.

Because this was also like during the crypto sort of boom.

And I just thought this is such a perfect encapsulation of like,

literally everything wrong, right?

Like you have the bad people, you have the bad faith people, then you have the bad faith exploiting the bad faith people, then you have the bad faith people exploiting the media and writing the most extreme, like, how dare you throw out my, you know, I have OCD, whatever.

And it's like, you click on that person's profile, and they're, they just want to get cited so they can pump their shit coin, you know, so it's like, everything was so bad.

Which is interesting to me because it's like, I think there's this awareness of this phenomenon and an attempt to exploit this phenomenon for profit, which is really just meme coins.

Yeah, it's like basically like make your shit coin now because you've got the attention.

Or launch your OnlyFans now because you've got the attention, I guess.

Was this the person that was working for Lockheed Martin?

Incredible.

Incredible.

Couldn't have made this in a lab.

Which, by the way, wait, was this the post that started it all off?

Wait, that one that you just had on?

Because I can't remember what she said to start it all off.

There's a thread going around mocking writers who don't read very much.

And I'm not trying to haul out my soapbox, but this is ableist.

Not everyone can read for pleasure.