it's been so weird to watch the converse of this process in real time - with Simu Liu the before and after on him getting cast in the MCU has been really bizarre because afterwards when he tweeted basically anything screen rant would do a writeup
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Replying to @life_minutiae @arthur_affect and
Fame and Twitter are a weird combo
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If you go even mildly viral you NEED to have some kind of strong social network of rl friends and family (or else, I dunno, just be an uncommonly strong person) because your ability to take social feedback from the Internet itself will be destroyed
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
There'll be people who praise you to the high heavens for doing shit that costs you nothing, and the shit you pour your heart and soul into will just vanish without a blip The temptation to become a mindlessly Pavlovian like-chaser is enormous
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
And no matter what bad thing you do you'll have people lining up to defend you for it, no matter how objectively awful it was, and you'll have people jumping down your throat screaming at you, no matter how objectively minor it was So people go crazy
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
I'm not saying JKR isn't culpable for going crazy, especially since she of any celebrity obviously has every opportunity to live a normal life if she wants and has consciously chosen the Dark Path But still, this is the process by which it happens
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Replying to @arthur_affect @life_minutiae and
She probably made the usual discovery that TERFs, whatever else they are, make the most indefatigably loyal minions online, and like a true Malfoy gravitated to Slytherin House just for the easy access to Crabbes and Goyles
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Yeah back before when I was on twitter I'd watch people fall to the right this way, based upon sticking their foot in their mouth, doubling down, and then getting defended by the side of their base that is shit heads. Basically yeah, what you said. Lol.
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I actually do feel kind of worse for notch than JKR, like he was an authentically broken person before this all started and having his dreams come true clearly ruined his life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BradMichaelElm1 and
That thing he said where he can't get laid anymore now that he's rich because women don't feel sorry for him anymore That's raw
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I always think of that kind of thing as the "Seymour Skinner gambit" "No one would... LIE about that"
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