may 20 okc
If you've been reading this blog for a bit you'll know I occasionally bring up Threads, Meta's attempt to compete with Twitter after Twitter started sucking hard by, essentially, trying to build a version of Twitter with a side dish of a version of Reddit.
For what it's worth, Threads offers a pretty decent posting experience. The communities (i.e. NBA Threads, WNBA Threads, Blue Jays Threads, etc) are generally good (even though the sports ones are way, way too stuffed with casuals) and, from what I can tell, the community at large bends towards normal people who seem to all understand that this one can't get wrecked like the last one.
This said, I do not really participate in the broader culture of Threads because I really only use Threads it to exclaim things while watching basketball games. What kinds of things? See here, here, here, here, and here.
All of this said, there are various Threads main characters and various Threads dramas, and the main one going on right now is crazily compelling, but not necessarily the best reasons.
The TL;DR: A writer who seems like a nice and kind person met a guy, and that guy became her boyfriend, and the relationship got serious, and, along the way, she wrote a lot about their relationship on Threads. Recently, the relationship ended. As I understand it, he cheated.
Anyway, that's not the thing. The thing is that everyone and their brother seems to feel compelled to share their opinions in re: this other person's love story and heartbreak on Threads. And, sure, maybe that's fair play because of the public nature of the whole thing, but, also, the public nature of the whole thing makes it very easy to develop weird relationships with strangers and to their stories. This, in essence, is why the social internet is both wildly compelling and completely fucked up.
But, like, there are full-on reaction posts and videos, both positive and negative. Mostly negative. And then there are the reactions to the negative things. And side conversations about feminism, about privacy, about bitterness, about loneliness, about the price of social media fame, and so on. And then there were the reactions to the side conversations, and so on.
Anyway I'm telling you this because it's been really, really interesting to watch. It's also a kinda sorta microcosm of the various universes we build and destroy every day in both our offline and online lives. We are all gods in our own small ways.
🌲 gonna
🌼 go
🌱 touch sleeb
🌳 grass sleeb
🌷 now sleb
Be good to yourself.
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