Now I really regret not being able to locate Momus/Nick Currie's excellent essay, as my recollection of it is not complete. To avoid ambiguity, his stuff was always worth reading; it was in fact a treat/behind-the-curtain moment to see someone not only admit they benefited from inertia, but to initiate and elaborate the thought.
Imagine (any Tik-Tok or YouTube micro-celebrity) making a nod to such a thing. Rather than parading the spoils of what's more often a random attention lottery or of disgusting pandering.
Thank you for providing the extra context. The self-awareness and humility he showed to say the quiet part out loud is disarming, although the reality it highlights is disheartening.
If someone did the same for TikTok or YouTube, I wonder whether the spell—how many assume it works—would break and the reality you alluded to would become common knowledge.
(In my defense, it sounded like he can no longer find it, either; this happened pretty quietly, but not so long ago, the Old Internet was largely buried. To make room for more human cholesterol, or to help memory-hole stuff, I'm not sure which or whether.)
Now I really regret not being able to locate Momus/Nick Currie's excellent essay, as my recollection of it is not complete. To avoid ambiguity, his stuff was always worth reading; it was in fact a treat/behind-the-curtain moment to see someone not only admit they benefited from inertia, but to initiate and elaborate the thought.
Imagine (any Tik-Tok or YouTube micro-celebrity) making a nod to such a thing. Rather than parading the spoils of what's more often a random attention lottery or of disgusting pandering.
Thank you for providing the extra context. The self-awareness and humility he showed to say the quiet part out loud is disarming, although the reality it highlights is disheartening.
If someone did the same for TikTok or YouTube, I wonder whether the spell—how many assume it works—would break and the reality you alluded to would become common knowledge.
(In my defense, it sounded like he can no longer find it, either; this happened pretty quietly, but not so long ago, the Old Internet was largely buried. To make room for more human cholesterol, or to help memory-hole stuff, I'm not sure which or whether.)