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What's the deal with announcing to people that you are unfollowing them? A sort of parting shot? You need them to know why? 🤔
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I’m 100% sure nobody has had that intention in announcing their intention to unfollow me. It’s mostly an attempt to punish for what they consider a bad tweet afaict which puzzles me since nobody is paying anyone
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Usually just a word, “unfollowed” in response to a specific tweet. Sometimes with a short, entirely unhelpful “cause”. Scare quotes since the stated cause is never the one I infer.
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actually come to think of it, I think it's rooted in a fundamental belief that their attention is somehow really precious and sacred and we must all be craving it, and bemoaning its loss. see also:
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This is quite an illuminating misread of the situation 1. It’s a straw man- it’s the Priyanka’s and Deepika’s that are coming to dominate, not the nerdy incels 2. There’s a buried assumption here that you need to impress whitebread Americans. You don’t twitter.com/pachkacigaret/
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