as much as i hate being misunderstood, the experience is reinforcing a valuable lesson: from the perspective of raw engagement, the potential for being misunderstood - especially as an attack on some identity, and double especially as a dumb attack - is a feature, not a bug
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every time content is seen and interpreted by a new mind, a new mutation of it appears in that mind, and the most "successful" mutations are the ones that produce engagement, esp. shares. it's probably the worst feature of social media that hate-engagement is still engagement
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it doesn't even have to be "bad on purpose to make you click" although the incentives point that way - tumor cells arise from random mutations and they still successfully divert blood from the rest of your body to feed themselves https://twitter.com/TRULY_RELAXED/status/1197771519125946370 …
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on twitter in particular, the fact that RTs happen on the level of individual tweets and clicking through to read context requires an extra action means that RTs (and QTs) are an excellent way to make tweets (which already have little room for nuance) easier to misunderstand
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moreover (not relevant to my experience, just a general observation) the spread of the "dogwhistle" meme actively encourages this kind of misunderstanding, by making it virtuous to read tweets in the worst way possible (and then, while hating on them, *continue spreading them*)
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not sure what to do with this. i could stop posting hot takes... or i could learn to enjoy being misunderstood
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the medium is the problem
hot takes are a beacon for similar people
i found you through one of your hot takes
never stop
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Replying to @_StevenFan
ha thanks. "finding the others" is definitely my favorite use case for twitter so far and maybe it's worth people occasionally yelling at me
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