petty judgment (sorry)
There’s this creator I am absolutely sick of. Like so sick that I almost wanna post direct responses to things that piss me off, but it would admittedly just be personal taste and assumptions, so it would likely not be constructive or understandable to others.
I can read tons of things I disagree with and it’s fine, but have this person write it and it pushes all my buttons. It’s so good at hitting my nerves.
I don’t like how pretentious and try-hard they come off. There’s an elevated writing style and big vocabulary that adds to the conversation and is an inspiring pleasure to read, and then there’s this guy whose convoluted and cryptic ways to write add nothing to the topic at hand and just obfuscate the true intent without reason. There’s long ass sentences and repeated questions.
It reads like someone that’s trying to write as nonsensical as possible because they confuse difficulty with quality. It doesn’t actually sound deep, or special, or contemplative - instead it sounds like someone trying to fill a word count. Depending on the topic it also sounds so insecure, cowardly, neither here nor there because all there is are these questions.
You don’t have to have an opinion on everything or position yourself clearly all the time, but after dozens of posts reacting to others’ opinions with just meaninglessly convoluted questions with no direction or point it grinds my gears. It’s the written equivalent of trying to have a discussion with someone that only speaks with a spoon in their mouth and doesn’t give you a clear answer on anything. You ask them what they wanna eat and they’re like: “Maybe, maybe not. Have you considered what kind of nutritious nourishment you can provide for the guts of your brain? Reexamine what you have chosen to digest as you frequent the fast food of your internet content experience.” Enough! Even in e-mails!
And always as a reaction to others’ posts like you need their words to come up with anything and like your ramblings add anything. Oof!
Then mix in the absolutely frustrating experience of reading someone being mad over and over again over other people not liking their favorite toy and being extra petulant about it. If I were you I’d love it too - maybe run my posts through it to make it sound even more pretentious! Maybe use it to de-bullshit your writing and give it some content.
It would be so rude to address this publicly but sometimes I would really love to know if I am the outlier or if other people are similarly annoyed. In my head I’m standing next to a canvas of this clownery and point at it and ask: Does anyone else think this sucks or am I insane? I hate to see this in my referers.
It’s on me, I know. I have to stop clicking on things I know I won’t like. I have to stop reading. I have to hide that stuff from my feed. It’s no use. I think I keep clicking because I wanna find something I can disprove or offer another perspective on constructively in a post without getting personal, and I hope that I’ll find something that makes me like and understand that person; but it’s all so stupid or so far apart from my own view and values I can’t begin to do that. Every time I click to be proven wrong and I get proven right instead.
It felt good to write that out somewhere though.