My least favorite people on the internet are the ones who go out of their way to flag my attention and then act like I'm weird and crazy for responding to them. I'm like well excuse the hell out of me for not acting like an elitist blue-tick wanker and ignoring you, dickhole.
I'm getting more and more of this lately; I guess once you get past a certain size of following people just expect you to start ignoring all the comments or something. But I built my following on social media; I didn't come from some big platform or anything. This is all I know.
And honestly it would be a lot easier to just ignore everyone. But it feels so gross to draw a line of separation between myself and people with less influence like that. Plus I find engaging the debate of the day a lot more informative than just reading commentators.
But also I get that it's experienced on the other side like a power imbalance. I just experience myself as a mum on social media arguing with someone like I've always done, but for them it can feel like a big energy coming at them. It's odd, and I'm trying my best to navigate it.
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