"Narcissism discourse" has me thinking about that one Tiktok that went viral about how "attention-seeking" is a really nasty thing to call someone and yet as social animals attention-seeking and status-seeking is literally how we survive
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You see the ideal is the appearance of effortlessness. You are supposed to do things that receive attention, but appear to have not put in effort to attract attention.
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This is similar to the utterly toxic attitude in society that puts “natural talent” on a pedestal by treating the greatest kind of success as that which appears effortless.
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one of the things that never made sense to me was the social media conceit that it was guache to reblog / retweet your own posts
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'was' This conceit still surfaces regularly
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I see where you're coming from and i think there are times when the message is on point. But, i feel like many accusations of attention seeking have some concept of acting out of line in order to get that attention baked in. So... nefarious attention seeking :P
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That's what the accusation is meant to imply But the way it typically gets used is just 'you're courting attention and I don't like it', whether the method/cause/etc. are justified or not
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I think it depends on the context. Someone with a large following and a media platform using their twitter to lie about Fred Hampton is attention seeking, for example. My own attention seeking is insignificant and doesn't result in me being a bad faith actor.
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