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>>12065586
Allow me to paint a picture of you.

Every day, you get on social media. You position your face in front of a camera at the exact angle you determine looks best. You have practiced this angle so many times that you have it down to a science. You take the same picture from the same angle with the same facial expression every single day, because you have determined that this is the optimal picture to get the most reactions on social media.

You post the picture. You stare at it for a minute, making sure it looks right. Sometimes you delete it and retake the picture. Most of the time, you refresh until you get your like/reaction whatever. You keep checking back periodically throughout the day to make sure everyone's liking it.

Partway through the day, you decide to make a text post. Some kind of banal, trivial shit that doesn't really mean anything, because the meaning isn't what matters, what matters is that you're using it as a signal to convey that you are special, profound, and trendy. Something like, "I just cooked my own eggs this morning for breakfast. Yay I'm adulting!" Sometimes you decide you want to be "deep" so you will parrot some popular political opinion like, "The rich are evil. I AM AGAINST POVERTY!" It's like, duh, nobody is FOR poverty. So why did you say it? Because the contents of the message don't matter, what matters is that the message serves as a signal to convey that you are a trendy progressive, in the loop with the latest popular opinions. You are just like all the hip and trendy celebrities because you say the same things they do, and you post smug selfies while you say them. Your life must be so great!

Every single thing you post on social media serves to create this fake character that you portray yourself as. This profound, smug, trendy, world-weary, sophisticated and cultured person. You have to be in character 24/7 in case the situation demands you to shove your face in front of the camera for another selfie.

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