Ten Years of Being Right for Nothing

I can't believe it. It's been 10 years. I kept careful track of who was based and who was cringe. I never got called out. I didn't post liberalism. I shitposted in epic ways. I always hated the right people for the right reasons. I always knew who was in the bad pile before everyone else. I knew because their mask slipped off. But now I'm sitting here, old, and it was for nothing- 10 long years, not a single organizational success. In fact, success seems further than ever. This has been all for nothing.

A tired, wide-eyed person sits hunched at a computer in a dark, scribbled enclosure. They reflect on spending ten years correctly judging who was based, cringe, or secretly bad, but accomplishing nothing meaningful. The joke is self-mocking commentary about online political and cultural hypervigilance that never turned into real-world success, making it a reaction to wasted time and bitter internet nostalgia.

• @eternalclassic / 543 2021-09-29