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  • There was a subreddit that I remember that was something like ‘real life the game’ in which people talked about real world events/ and role played as if the real world were a video game.

    Things like “I saw in the patch notes that the wildfire event was happening in California again this year, when are the devs going to retire this one?” Or something like “my boyfriend and I have been playing together for four years, and today we got married in game!” And some people would add on to the posts too, adding like, “Hey OP, I attended the wedding and you looked so happy up on the stage! Wishing you both the best! Also did anyone else feel bad after eating the salmon dish?”

    They didn’t really know the person, but people would just play along with the roleplay.







  • Have always really enjoyed writing poetry and playing with rhyme and meter. I’ve never enjoyed reading poetry from famous poets. The first time I became interested in “high status” poetry, just for its status, I heard about the newest Poet Loriet. I looked up their poems, all excited to read clear, interesting takes on the human condition.

    I think it was probably Kay Ryan at that time. Here is a poem by Kay that I found online:

    The Elephant in the Room
    Kay Ryan

    The room is
    almost all
    elephant.
    Almost none
    of it isn’t.
    Pretty much
    solid elephant.
    So there’s no
    room to talk
    about it.

    It wasn’t the typical art critique that a layman would typically jump to that filled me, “I could do that” it was tge far worse feeling of, “If I had written this, I wouldn’t have thought to show anyone”

    I pretty much decided then and there that poetry, like most art, it seems, has little to do with content or quality. More so with means and notoriety.

    How is it people are at all surprised out society created a new generation more obsessed with being popular online than anything else?