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just occurred to me that some kids on this site won't know what this GIF is used for
do you know what it means to be in before the lock? vote according to your age
I will explain it to the kids once it hits maybe 100 votes

cute to think that this is a sort of shibboleth for us elder forum rats
Ok so it’s fairly straightforward, here’s an explainer:
What I think is interesting is the fact that posters with high post counts are typically seen as more senior/established/high-status members of a forum

So getting a post into a thread that a mod will soon lock = free post count

funny GIFs make it entertaining / less blatant
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Visakan Veerasamy
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Weird realization that’s keeping me up tonight: all of my best content is extremely under-seen

It’s confusing because *I’ve* seen it all, but most people who know/follow me haven’t really even seen maybe like 5-10% of my best work

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This tweet for eg is part of a thread that has 55 RTs - not bad - but it’s dramatically underappreciated IMO. I see this as a failing on my part, not the audience - I’m not making it clear how much of a knockout punch this is
👆🏾 if you really internalize the above, you will develop social superpowers and be loved by hundreds if not thousands of people
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Visakan Veerasamy
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First thing I always look up when I see a comparison is the size difference

US population: 328,000,000+

Denmark population: 5,800,000+

Framed another way,

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It’s a little early to call it - would need about a week to be sure, but -

this tweet may have just changed my life
I have vaguely kind of always known “yeah yeah deep breaths calm you down, take some deep breaths, meditate, blah blah” - but the habit never really properly stuck or clicked for me, I think largely because the effect never quite “hit” the right way
Box breathing - which is just “inhale for 4 secs, hold for 4 secs, exhale for 4 secs, hold for 4 secs”, repeat until you chill the fuck out - somehow, something about the “structure” of this feels most “correct” of everything I’ve tried
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