
“Stuff” I recall from that time: Every girl on OF in my partners network would put whatever flag, tag, etc in their TikTok’s regardless if it was on topic. BLM was huge for anything sports/retail, pride month was hijacked by nearly every company but they wouldn’t change their logo for places in the Middle East (I found that to be hypocritical and the move of opportunists). The university held special events for each. It was as if we just all of a sudden had a new set of holidays but instead 1/2
2/2 of celebrating something, it always had this negative tinge to it where people expected us to be loud and pick fights over whatever the “influencers” said needed to be done. Reminded me of bladerunner… like do we just take orders from the phone people now? The fuck is happening?
It was like, and I’m making a joke here but I’m sort of serious, it felt like political events became the opposite of door dash. Like we were getting door dashed back and instead everyone was like “let’s go to the such and such event that was promoted by xyz influencer” and you would show up and they would be selling “swag” and I’m like this whole thing is the worse aspects of both capitalism and communism combined. Communist propaganda hijacking political causes, with capitalist exploitation.
Look I may or may not be a bit high right now but that’s what it felt like. Bladerunner in that… people just uploaded a new personality from TikTok every day. People weren’t even discussing their own lives… just what was trending on TikTok. Like an update was made to their mental software. Door dash in that it was as if people’s phones gave them a series of alerts of where to be and what to do when they got there. (I’ve never door dashed I just think that’s how the app works but w/ food)