we must imagine sisyphus on inordinate amounts of zoloft
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“the internet isn’t real life” stopped being broadly true a number of years ago, but this website specifically has gotten so catastrophically bad that basically nobody on here is worthy of moral consideration so we can all just yell at each other without worrying that it matters
it remains so so funny that CollegeHumor began as a low-budget, frequently mean sketch channel for edgy 20-somethings, and has become a wildly high-budget, play-it-safe improv platform with the most Care Bear audience imaginable
last thought on this before I hit mute and go to bed. if everyone who like this tweet had followed me I would have 2/3 of my previous following before I got hacked :( peace and love
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the notion of “dropout-friendly terms” being harry potter houses kind of says it all, doesn’t it
lotta people getting mad about this as though I said “dropout sucks shit and I hate their comedy” rather than “here is an objective truth about dropout’s business strategy and I don’t like the kind of person that strategy is designed to target”
when the revolution comes everyone will be ludovico’d into watching Going Down With Ella Yurman as a part of their glorious reeducation
you can maybe argue “edgy comics tend to soften/write different material as they get older and more mature” more generally, but re: dropout specifically this is just not true. I went to their improv show at the kings theater 2 years ago and was adrift in a sea of 16 year olds
there is woke 1 everywhere for those with eyes to see
personally if I hated a youtuber I would not give her the opportunity to justifiably talk down to me like I was a remedial 5th grader, but that’s just me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I want to help people interpret this tweet because many are struggling. When I say “worse than I thought” I’m proposing a counterfactual situation: what I expected Trump 2 to be. I was expecting Hitler. Trump 2 is very bad, but not Hitler bad. I therefore am massively relieved that it’s not Hitler bad. So, although it is bad, though millions have died (as expected), the situation is much less bad than my expectation of how bad it was going to be. The fact that my expectations of how bad it was going to be are worse than what it is, does not imply that what it is, is not bad. Merely that it is less bad than the counterfactual situation—that is, less bad than my expectations.
