Thread by @visakanv

i've started to encounter people talking about me like I was born micro-famous. 😂 I'm the minority son of a garbage collector, I never went to college. I don't think I've done any devil's bargain stunt bullshit. I'm just an earnest nerd publishing and replying for 20+ years

If you look at my volume of output vs my follower count, I actually have one of the worst tweet-to-follower-conversion rates amongst people in the 20k range. Something like 5 tweets for 1 follow. Hardly anybody gave a shit about me for the first 15+ years I was extremely online

I'm not looking for sympathy or pity or praise or anything of the sort – I am very happy and comfortable with the way my life is, and the decisions I have made, and so on. I'm just sharing this for people who continue to misunderstand how the game works

I now make friends easier than ever before because I have social status, yes. But I accumulated that status by being extremely earnest and hardworking and being as kind and supportive to strangers as I possibly could. Go look at my YouTube channel rn

https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1249002205866151938

year 1: "this guy is dumb for putting in all this effort for no reward, nobody is even liking or sharing his content. sad"

year 2: "he's still at it? what an idiot. he must have issues"

year 15: "well ofc it's easy for him to make friends, he has all this status and influence"

many of my videos – which take substantial time to make – have less than 100 views, 0 comments. lots of people would give up seeing this lack of engagement. I won't.

and then eventually they'll be like "yea but he's a famous youtuber so of course people watch his videos"