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Trends in Social Media Commentary That Should Be Relentlessly Mocked Until They Stop
There are some social media/news media trends in the Year of Our Lord 2024 that need to be not only pointed out, but pointed at while mercilessly mocking
Admittedly, I am far more online than the average person probably is, and probably more so than is healthy. Unavoidable, to do writing and media in the modern world, at least the way I do. Any accusation that my own perception might be a bit skewed accordingly could well have some merit to it.
Still, there are some social media and news media trends in the Year of Our Lord 2024 that need to be not only pointed out, but pointed at while mercilessly mocked. Let us review a few of them.
Settle down, folks. Cool your thumbs. Use the revolver theory of life and apply it to social media and news media: If you only have six bullets from now until the day you die to really fight something, is this something you want to use one of those six bullets on?
With rare exceptions, the answer is no. Especially in an environment where everything everywhere all at once is life-or-death biggest thing of the century of the week…until the next news segment at least.
Keep your bearing, and let us have a good week of being in, but not of, the purposefully curated chaos of the times we live in.
Originally published at https://heardtell.substack.com.
