I’ve mentioned my friend explaining the world to me this way and how much it shifted my perspective on people. Social media obviously heightens the effect but all analog media did it to a certain degree. To many people, you are just a minor character in their life’s movie.
https://twitter.com/lillydancyger/status/1445569465119166468
I have been on the receiving end of people who fixated on me as a character in their movie. Not the mundane microcelebrity stuff which I obviously developed and accept. I mean the personal stuff. It is NOT fun or flattering.
And all of it sucks but far and away the most aggressive and persistent has been from white women. Not commenting on the story at this point but the phenomenon of being the target of someone’s narcissistic script.
When they decide you are the reason they didn’t get X and they lash out at you? It’s a little destabilizing. One day you’re trying to find $50 to make your rent and BOOM! A stranger wants to know why you retweeted that thing and not them when they’re the reason you got a job.
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