Everything's become Stale

I started following politics in 2016, and the first couple of years were exhilarating. It felt so novel, significant, and meaningful. Even though a lot of my engagement with cultural artifacts and events was through humor (memes, SJW compilations, etc.), it was still something I genuinely looked forward to. It felt special, witnessing my own personal growth alongside what seemed like a restructuring of society as a whole. It really felt like the videos we watched and the comments we made had some level of tangential impact on the discourse.

Like many at the beginning, I got swept up by the anti-SJW crowd, started posting a lot of cringe online, and genuinely had a good time. After a while, though, I started changing my media consumption because it was getting boring. Soon enough, I realized that my intuitive or core, dormant beliefs didn't actually align with the rabid anti-SJW crowd. When I was on the verge of leaving the scene altogether, I found Destiny and immediately grew to appreciate him. His abrasive yet witty demeanor, infotainment debates, and unending list of dramas got me hooked — and I'm still here all these years later.

But something changed in 2020 during the pandemic. I saw a whole new opposition spring up: misinformation. Not only was this difficult to deal with, but it was radicalizing people so rapidly that the Red Scare Right started simping for Russia, and people were willing to go to any length to justify Trump's actions. Then the Israel/Palestine stuff happened, and I saw another ugly side of manufactured political polarization and how insidious and powerful propaganda can be. People were cheering on literal terrorists and excusing — even denying — violent acts against women because of this.

I don't even want to go on. I just feel tired. Signing off.