Lately I’ve had this odd sense that people take me both less seriously and more seriously than they did 5-6 years ago. I like it. Kinda liberating.
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More serious = form of reach/influence
Less serious = content of shit I say
More klout, less clout 😆
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Easier to be direct without causing offense for one. Beyond about 20k followers you turn into some sort of cartoon apparently. Things you say get passed through a cartoonizing filter. Unconscious heuristic: “No signal that 20k+ people are paying attention to can have much alpha”
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I think I understand now why so many bluechecks adopt a posture of preternatural poise and high gravitas and seem to lose any sense of humor they might have displayed at say 1k. One part Poe’s law defenses, two parts cartoon affect counterprogramming.
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You may be somewhat alarmed when you hear it, but I kind of speak in onomatopoeias.
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Or you can just do a and just post photos of dogs that are about to be nixed in the hopes of saving them....
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I hadn’t realized your follower count had gotten so high there Mr. Fancypants






