“we live in an uncaring universe.” sorry the special planet full of beauty and animals and food literally growing out of the ground isnt good enough for you. i guess
it’s sinple from 9 to 5 u just gotta be workpilled you gotta be emailcore focusedwave it’s true a neurotypical told me and they’re normal so I believe tgem
We have to up our productivity to meet our quotas and improve our metrics. We should reach out to our client base with surveys and user feedback. That’s not my department, but we need to restate our core values and create an action plan for a strategy that’ll greatly synergize our output. But let’s circle back to that later. We need to focus on our product. We need to produce content. We have to think outside the box and be proactive with our traditional culture. We’ve gotta return to the drawing board and address the elephant in the room. Do we have the tools to succeed in our tasks? We need more constructive feedback. This could be a game changer. We need to leverage our influence to really push the envelope and improve our portfolio. No need to reinvent the wheel, let’s run this up the flagpole and touch base with management.
for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal
before it was like, “what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?”
and now it’s like, “ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it’s pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we’ve normalized this experience”
Instagram and TikTok have successfully created the Torment Nexus from Jim Carrey’s iconic work, “Don’t put people in the Torment Nexus”
Worst part about this is I’ve only ever used that yellow square emoji once and it was just to see how it looked. This isn’t who I am. However, in retrospect, I suppose it is
Reading through the notes is a surreal experience please keep adding more to fuel my effervescent consumption of non descriptive emojis
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play’s dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It’s one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn’t catch you.
