Know how with retrospect you can remember that school yard "disses" were really stupid, and even the word makes you feel silly now? It's incredible that we (and I include myself) feel as if snark is somehow different at all.
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I give you Exhibit A: "Pied Piper of Trashville." Great stuff. And objectively true! But not distinct from way back then, right?https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/1096945602670354434 …
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Exactly. It's one of the main things I find exhausting about Twitter, and I imagine the rest of social media. "Snark", exalted and celebrated in this world, ends really just being tedious assholery, part of the social hierarchy enforcement of the playground in a new context.
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Yep. That's what it feels like in moments of brief lucidity.
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