If Twitter "taught" me anything today, it's that if I'm not squeaky clean perfection every waking second, then I'm an irredeemable monster and deserve public execution.
I’ve been there.
I know how passive-aggressive it sounds to say something like “I’m sorry you saw something upsetting on Twitter,” but that sort of thing is genuinely distressing. As a decent human being with compassion and empathy, it’s difficult to see people you admire being attacked and humiliated for petty and ridiculous reasons, and it’s scary to think that the same thing could happen to you at any time.
I like to think that I surround myself with good people doing good work and just generally being chill on social media, but it’s difficult to avoid this sort of unpleasantness, especially on a semi-professional platform like Twitter where you have to keep yourself fairly open and accessible for the purpose of networking. Like, the person using Twitter as a toilet for shitty opinions about anime characters and the private lives of voice actors in the evening is most likely going to be the same person who retweets the job opening you need in the morning.
Thank goodness for Animal Crossing, at least.
Although some of the ACNH discourse I’ve seen on Twitter has been some next level bullshit.
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Date: 2020-05-29 11:50 am (UTC)I’ve been there.
I know how passive-aggressive it sounds to say something like “I’m sorry you saw something upsetting on Twitter,” but that sort of thing is genuinely distressing. As a decent human being with compassion and empathy, it’s difficult to see people you admire being attacked and humiliated for petty and ridiculous reasons, and it’s scary to think that the same thing could happen to you at any time.
I like to think that I surround myself with good people doing good work and just generally being chill on social media, but it’s difficult to avoid this sort of unpleasantness, especially on a semi-professional platform like Twitter where you have to keep yourself fairly open and accessible for the purpose of networking. Like, the person using Twitter as a toilet for shitty opinions about anime characters and the private lives of voice actors in the evening is most likely going to be the same person who retweets the job opening you need in the morning.
Thank goodness for Animal Crossing, at least.
Although some of the ACNH discourse I’ve seen on Twitter has been some next level bullshit.