- Someone has spoken negatively about stans. Twitter is on fire. Tumblr watches on with vague dispassion, and Reddit uses the flames to fuel its superiority complex. Tiktok is being 2013 Tumblr again. You are on several of these platforms. How do you react? Something inside you splits, and it may never become whole again.
- Keemstar makes another tweet about Minecraft Monday season two. He says itâs coming out soon, real soon. You check the date of the tweet. It was made 6 months ago. You check again. Itâs been a year. âItâs coming out soonâ, Keemstar promises you. How did he get in your house? âItâs coming out real soonâ.
- Eretâs betrayal is referenced in the plot again. âIt was never meant to beâ. People online are asking about the significance of it. âItâs from the Final Control Roomâ, you tell them. They donât know what the Final Control Room is. They must have started watching recently, you think. âNo,â they say, âIâve been watching for monthsâ. Was it really months ago? You check the vods. Did it ever happen at all?
- Technoblade uploads. For a moment, the world stands still. Everything else slows to a halt, vanishes into the peripheral. You watch the video. Everyone watches the video. It was a good video. Maybe youâll get another one before the monthâs end, but donât get your hopes up. The human spirit is fragile, after all.
- Youâre busy for a few days, and canât catch up on the new content. âIt was only a few days,â you think. You watch a stream you missed. Now there are two more. You watch another stream. Four new ones are up by the time you finish. How do they keep multiplying? It was only a few days. There are two new nations, now, and theyâre having another festival. It was only a few days.
- You see that people are talking about the difficulties faced by women in the industry, and taking steps to address the unequal representation. âGoodâ, you think. âMaybe things will start to changeâ. A male streamer does something, and people forget. The conversation dies. Itâs okay, the same thing will happen again next month. It always does. It never starts to change.
- Something strange is trending on twitter, just above the most recent international disaster. Itâs mcyt. You ignore it. An hour passes, and you check again. Something new is trending, just above a systemic failure of our system. Itâs mcyt again. You ignore it. The Twitter Description Person tries to explain it, but they sound tired. One day, they will snap. One day, you think you will too.
- Skeppy and BBH say theyâre going to meet up this month. They say theyâll vlog it. You donât quite believe them - promises of a vlog dredges up deep trauma within you, touches the darkest recesses of your mind that you have so carefully hidden away. Still, you dare to hope. The month passes. Skeppy and BBH say theyâre going to meet up this month.
- Wilbur is in Philâs chat, again. You know whatâs coming, but still canât properly prepare yourself for the lore he decides to spin. âItâs not canonâ, you hear people cry. âWilbur isnât the main writer anymore, itâs not canonâ. âItâs a collaborative project,â the damned respond. âItâs all canonâ.
- A new celebrity expresses interest in the SMP. This isnât right. These streamers arenât celebrities, theyâre just gamers. You see they have hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. âTheyâre just gamers,â you cry in vain. âThey canât be mainstream. Theyâre only gamers.â
- You see an a6d video in your recommended. You didnât know he still did those. You refresh your feed and it disappears. Good. You werenât supposed to see that.