Thread by @KrisAbdelmessih

I'm with the octopus. I was thinking of what to write about Lily and honestly the octopus did a better job than I could expressing my feelings.

Every part of what octopus said too.

I've spoken to Lily a bunch offline as well. She is learning, trying, talented and generous.

https://twitter.com/macrocephalopod/status/1388938955605872642

Go back and read that last post she wrote about things that were said to her.

If for a moment you think being a woman doesn't play into this, I think your high.

I've never been treated even 1% as poorly as she has. And she's consistently nice and humble.

Hating on a 25 year old that isn't even running real money or doing anything except openly sharing her strategy is an especially crap look.

I think the zero-sumness of options has crept into some of your worldviews.

Did you lose by her gaining followers?

I loved what she was doing. I didn't dig into NOPE but it was totally beside the point to me. I saw her learning and sharing in public which is a value I've openly espoused and live by if you haven't noticed.

Go listen to her pods. Listen to her interview with @jposhaughnessy

She is gifted and self-aware. She'll be fine whatever she does. She's a good soul and even that's beside the point.

These takes about her growing follower count somehow justifying scrutiny. It's not scrutiny. It's hate. The view that "that's what you get Lily" is mind-blowing.

You're welcome to troll people and hate. It says more about you than the target.

People notice.

And as far as using her platform for good. Here's a student that could easily have made decent coin for herself who chose to use her substack for charity. I openly advocate for the BCS on this site and she chose that as the first charity to support bc I asked her to consider it.

She got chased off the platform by words. Yet she is doing far better than words. She's making actions that make a fuckin difference in meatspace. Not in fuckin nerdo dork space.

Some of y'all see the world in dark ways. Really immature.

Ok I'm done.

Thank you 🐙