Oliver Bateman Does the WorkVerified account

come for the soft pseudo-politics, stay for the jimmy fallon-esque zingers: millennial media influencers making waves and winning hearts and minds in 2019

maybe one day you'll be famous enough, or at least extremely-online-famous enough, for someone to profit off bringing you down, and by "profit" i mean "post a tweet that gets a few thousands likes"

my dad used to say that people who wouldn't help you up for a grand would pay ten bucks to throw the first stone, so there's that. there's always that. and i love it! i love seeing humanity at work, when even its seemingly "best" or at least "good" impulses are also its worst

the number of likes a tweet, even a pandering and on-the-nose tweet, can get are finite, but the voids in our hearts encompass an infinite space

do you ever wonder that? how "friends" who would never publicly acknowledge your existence when you're "up" or at least "doing ok" (and thus "competition") would race to cast the first stone the minute you're vulnerable, the minute you're chum in the social media water? i do

when it's a major celebrity, who cares, of course, because the price of being a major celebrity (but not a mega-rich person, big difference) is that there's at least a 50/50 chance you'll not only have a great fall but end up worse than you started. "the price of fame"

all of this has fascinated me ever since i've been a little kid and watched my friends and relatives quite literally pay for the privilege of destroying each other, all because life is awful, life is short, life is boring, so why not spice things up?