Ten Years of Shitposting 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 distressed, black-and-white cartoon figure lies crumpled on the ground beneath a long block of text about spending ten years tracking who was based or cringe, hating the right people, and shitposting online. The punchline is that all the ideological sorting and online activism produced no organizational success, turning internet political commitment into bleak self-mockery. It is sent as a reaction to realizing that years of posting, arguing, or factionalism accomplished nothing.

• @eternalclassic / 543 2021-09-29