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9327091 No.9327091 [Reply] [Original]

What's lit/ consensus on namedroping? Is it good, bad, ok?

>> No.9327117

As Tolstoy once said, 'It's the best, my nigga.'

>> No.9327134

I find it really shallow.

Men do it because they're jealous of other peoples lives.

Women do it because they're old.

>> No.9327155

I mean in Art in general

>> No.9327676

it's better to drop the quote and let them think you're insightful as fuck

Basic artists meme, Woke artists steal

>> No.9327769

>>9327091
I stopped doing that once I woke up from my dogmatic slumbers

>> No.9327778

It's pretentious and screams "Please acknowledge how well-read and educated I am". Only self-conscious cucks namedrop, real fuckers just make implications and hints.

>> No.9327785
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9327785

Maybe if you read kneechee you will understand real truth

>> No.9327840

I read this book called The Inferno, I barely understood anything cause it was written in this faggy proto-Italian, but the Author was name dropping every other line. Plus the center of hell was a frozen well. Talk about a cold pudding of a book

>> No.9327855

>>9327785
NICOLE

>> No.9329329

>>9327785
>>9327855
Literally who?

>> No.9329379

>>9327785
Got a link to the video?