Unthinkable. May his soul find eternal peace.
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You'll never understand just how great 2019-2021 twitter was. It might seem like I'm exaggerating but it truly felt like a digital town square where we all had shared consciousness.
There was nothing on my feed but banger after banger. Zero fight videos. You didn't need to relentlessly curate your algorithm. It was all just... there.
You had Lobo posting about becoming one with your body and mind. You had Lawrence bashing the UK (before it was cool). LogFitz posting three drinks. Sol leading the charge. Shaw cooking up literal bangers. Pre-fame Tate. Du dropping 180 character gems that would occasionally break normisphere. Tiger documenting it all. Built Different. The timeline was just out of this word.
I learned so much. You could spend hours on twitter search (that's now broken). Grimhood. CK Eternity. They ran health twitter before health twitter existed. Every little thing that's popular now was discussed. We called seed oils vegetable oil and nobody talked about it. Deep Nutrition was the only mainstream book (if you could call it mainstream) that openly called it out.
A text based platform like twitter should never have been monetized. The natural consequence is that ideas are no longer prioritized. Communities get broken down... it must be impossible to grow an account from scratch now without resorting to posting slop, doing attention grabbing antics or producing cinematic grade advertorials. It's sad to see.
You just had to be there.
Twitter changed my life.
Those are all relatively low cost too. When you’re able to keep your wife at home so she’s not slaving away for another man, when your kids aren’t subject to garbage because you enrolled them in a vetted private school, when you’re given special privileges to carry a rifle in your car because you bankrolled the police department…that’s doing whatever it takes to maintain your honor.