Thread by @MarianneVoss

I am pretty much convinced you'll never ever read this, @karlurban, but I want to post it anyways. #karlurban
Over the years you have played, smiled, posed, photographed, spoken and written your way into many hearts.

When I write „you“, it is of course in the sense of a projection, few of your social media followers will ever have talked to you in person and far fewer, if any, will be able to say they know you. But that doesn't change the quality of the feelings we have for you.

With like 1.3 million followers on Instagram, not all of them will be respectful and selflessly concerned about your well-being. Also, the most reliable human trait is stupidity, of which I explicitly do not exclude myself.

But if you think that everyone here only wants to see you like that:

then that may be true for some of the followers, but not for all. Maybe a star always has to be shiny, beautiful, successful and satisfied. The one who has gradually written himself into my heart here doesn't have to.

He's a human being, with ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, just like everyone else. I am happy to see a little sign of life from time to time and don't expect perfection, at most a touch of self-reflection, humor and the common sense to which I have become accustomed.

Thank you for all of this in the past, wishing you all the power you may need now and in the future and a friend who deserves this term!

I hope some day you will rediscover the fun in using social media.

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