one of the saddest, yet most poignant and literary, things i’ve ever read on social media.
“the crisis of western civilization: the twitter thread”
On Twitter, a man decides that the blame for his feel when no gf is on everyone else for being a soulless slut or cuck. They’re clearly the lonely, empty, miserable ones, not I, and it has nothing to do with me being deeply bitter, pretentious, and unlikeable, he tells himself between tweets,
On Tumblr, a bunch of NEETs weep bitterly that this Twitter whining is a stirring, tragically poetic elegy for the death of their ability to relate to any other human being wait no we mean The West, and also proves that cities are full of decadence, due to the presence of gays and minorities. Anime girls will never dump you, or tell you no, or do anything degenerate, they console themselves while unzipping their fly to jerk off again to hentai
Imagine coming from a county so safe and having a life so easy, that you think a dating/hookup app is the sign of society falling apart
you want shitty takes? this dude is FULL of em
if anyone ever tries to lie to your face and say that the literary scene isn’t full of creeps, show them this
god you have no idea how glad i was when i scrolled down and all the comments were critical
Have you noticed how a few years ago this sentiment was rendered as “ha, we’re tearing down the pathetic, moldy cults to Foer, and Foster Wallace, and Updike, and Kesey"
And now it’s “ha, look at those pathetic upstarts who’ll *never* tear us down”