gloom

between all of the pop culture proceedings and the current gambling thing, I picture this quote.

𝖒𝖆𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖆𝖉 𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖗𝖆

this should illustrate it nicely.

the desperation is palpable.

imagine pushing a narrative where the upside is contingent on how inorganic one's social network happens to be, and the rational actor is compelled to recede the organic social network in pursuit of this upside.

Luckily we don't have that built-in into the very foundation of the purple platform /s