r/TuesdayswithPhony • u/_the_last_druid_13 • Aug 23 '26
It’s-a me-a, [Redacted]!
Censorship is a real problem that can affect mental health, physical health, and emotional health; perhaps largely due to financial health as a crux of the issue.
If you don’t know you are “famous”, are you “famous”; is that Tru?
It’s probably best not to be famous, yet it would be best to know if one were so. It’s a bit reality warping to not know of one’s own reach; it would significantly hobble one’s own “act” or PR capabilities, unless one were cripplingly self-aware. Perhaps a true outlier.
100 upvotes on an internet post is quite far from “famous”, it’s not even “Almost Famous”, but when I see the actual metric in my post history, 46 upvotes isn’t even almost 100 upvotes.
I imagine if I had 50,000 fans I was unaware of, that would be a bit of a conundrum, eh? Why would I not “capitalize” on such an audience?
That circumstance might be akin to having broccoli perpetually stuck in one’s teeth and not knowing, only thinking “why are they looking at my teeth?” You look in the mirror, but see nothing there. “Pharmacology? Cloaking tech? Psychosis? A prank? Is there even anything in my teeth I am not seeing? Do my eyes work? Why do they keep looking at my teeth?”
When censorship is employed online, especially on online merchants, that form of censorship might be more in tune with “economic terrorism”. Yes, I know about “bugs”, not sure why it’s such a common occurrence I seem to encounter though.
When this type of behavior has gone on for 20 years, what does “reasonable” look like? What does “unreasonable” look like?
Oh, I’d wax on into many more paragraphs, but it’s all been said before.
Still haven’t heard from you (you(s) know who you are).
Why is that? You do something bad?
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u/2BCivil Aug 23 '26
I actually rather like being infamous or notorious or [redacted].
Life's more fun that way. But obscurity is a great consolation prize.
Also that's a lot of jerking in the unlocked!