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[deference]

From: William T. Spears
Posted: June 19th

Why is the Internet like this?
I am highly disappointed in it.
Surely there is more to it than this.

Everyone can be much better than this.
Much, much better.
Honestly.

And whoever told my god about these cellphones, I would like a word.
Many of them.

Grell Sutcliffe.
I am publicly shaming you for your behavior so that you will cease.
Please stop sending me SO MANY messages.
And no, I do not like any of the emoji.
None of them.
Not one of them.

Comments

text ♔ from Apollo

[priforprince]

The Internet is an equalizer. Wading through chaff is inevitable.

text;

[deference]

An equalizer?
Explain.

[priforprince]

Anyone can post anything, anywhere. No one moderates for grammar. No one prunes the rosebush to ensure it flourishes fruitfully, or prevents weeds from overshadowing the more pleasing blossoms. In sum, the Internet holds no auditions.

The results are the same as at any open mic.

[deference]

It's unlawful and breeds only noise.

[priforprince]

Exactly. "Everyone friends, everyone content creators"?


The sort of philosophy only a half-baked, simpleminded elementary schooler with a snail's vocabulary could espouse.

[deference]

Congratulations on finding your people.

[priforprince]

I beg your pardon?

[ For a moment, laughably, she'd almost thought... ]

[deference]

CONGRATULATIONS ON FINDING YOUR PEOPLE.

1/??????? thank you for that twist it was amazing

[priforprince]

[ SHE WAS RIGHT!!!!






well, she's always right, but ]

2/hibiki

[priforprince]

[ BUT ]

[priforprince]

[ being right means ]

[priforprince]

[ ONCE AGAIN, SHE HAS BEEN BETRAYED ]

also, i'm sorry

[priforprince]

[ REVOLUTION REQUIRES SACRIFIIIIIICE ]

done. also [text->video]

[priforprince]

[ Words failing her, Hibiki lurches up from the couch and hurls the laptop across the room with a grunt of frustration. When it hits the ground, the corner bounces in such a way that it toggles the post method and switches on the webcam.

William will see a lot of purple carpet. He will see a door.

He will see a pair of fancy shoes stalking for that door very deliberately, and then it shuts.

So there. ]

[ video; ]

[deference]

[ Again, unspoken, but he is willing to speak to people however they contact him. So he turns on the video as the cellphone falls on its side. He looks at it with an exasperated expression before saying: ]

I don't know how to respond to that.

[video]

[priforprince]

[ Fortunately, William won't have to. This person is Gone! Gone with a capital G! For God!

And for Gauche!

Hah! ]

[video]

[deference]

[ Long silence follows. ]

... all right.

[ Mostly confused more than anything but he closes the video feed off all the same.

What? ]