🐻Reviewing Every Single Top 50 BearBlog post [May 11th]

Why I'm doing this

As someone who highly values this space but is extremely conflicted about certain systems of thought permeating it, I want to submerse myself in the Bearblog zeitgeist and go through the process of articulating my appreciation/distaste for other people's work. I am extremely insulated from the bearblog community, I don't usually engage with anyone elses work.

I want to emphasise that unless you are broadly in alignment with my strange political and cultural niche, you shouldn't be offended by harsh critiques. They likely come from a totally different frame to your own, not a superior one.

I aim to keep the reviews short and direct, but I'll probably get distracted.

I chose 50 because that feels like a broad enough sense of the space and I didn't just want to review people who hang around at the top of the community all the time and I kind of thought it would be funny to go hard.

Reminder that you can ctrl+f to search via your own blog title if you'd like to self-indulge.

Also if you like the concept and would like to see it again or perhaps have your own blog reviewed in a future post the only viable communicator is upvoting, sorry! Self-serving AND true!

1. A Not NOT Unhinged Change(log)

One of the best I've seen, an absolutely unhinged stream of consciousness powered by an aesthetic/technical sensibility that I cannot pierce. The combination of technical minutia with utterly irrational emotive declarations about the psychic impact. Honestly there's so much energic egoic power I struggle to read it other than through skimming lest I get eaten by it. I will probably come back to everything written here another time and get consumed by it.

It carries an implicit (by my read) message of embracing the absolute most extreme forms of your psyche as productive creative outlets. I hope this person is not getting a kind of help that will limit their creative output, while also hoping this expression isn't causing them too much pain.

The technical and aesthetic sensibilities are beyond my skill level and I utterly admire them.

Insanely cool. I am in love with the project.

2. I worry too much about what other people think

You're gonna hate this then.

Maybe these kinds of depressive, self-obsessed sentiments get traction out of pity, but if I had to hazard a guess, they're boosted out of solidarity by other people who feel the same way. It is unfortunate that the only piece of work I'll see by many people is a creator complaining about how difficult creating is. I feel I have read this post 100 times on Bearblog, it seems to be a communal libidinal impulse to keep one of these visible at all times to reflect the quiet frustration of artists.

An accurate representation of a community sentiment, but essentially worthless and replaceable by any other.

A public utility product.

3. Taking a Pause⏯️

Not a particularly novel sentiment but I'm amenable to the idea of seasonality, and there is value in expressing a known idea in new rhetoric. Particularly "Not comparing my Day 3 with someone else’s Day 300 softened my inner critic." is an idea I am sure helped someone, evoking temporality.

What I am not amenable to is an individualistic permission structure of providing antiproductivity as an alternative to productivity with no regard for the sociocultural ramifications. I am equally sure that someone in dire straits was frustrated by the luxurious outlook that one can happily reside outside the demands of algorithms and deadlines.

It's fine I guess

4. I can't understand Apple's Critical Alert policy

Kinda just feels like a hacker news post. Complaining about the lack of transparency from a megacorporation that has no capacity to understand your intent with your particular medication app.

Honestly this was better off as a tweet a dev might have cared and someone might have pinged apple support for you. I tend not to value devlord intrusions on one of the rare spaces amenable to writing. I get they form a significant foundation of this community but I am what I am.

Basically, I didn't need to read your support ticket.

5. Marathon (Closed Alpha)

Feels almost uncanny to run into gaming content in this space, this is probably the first post I've seen of this kind. Kinda vibey aesthetic reminds me of old gaming magazines. Cool aesthetic choices despite them being very simple.

Having finished it, I disagree with a lot of opinions in it, but man this is better written than any Review I could manage. It reads like a golden era Edge Magazine extended feature, if you don't have a job writing for a publication please get one magazines need writers like you.

If I was 15 and reading this as a feature on Marathon I'd have had an exceptional time. You deserve to be paid to do this if you aren't already. I am near-certain you're a real professional doing this for fun or everyone else here is fucked.

Really cool. Love it.

6. Moderation.txt

Very frustrating. I appreciate the aim but reading the same liberal mindlocked advice on how to build community for the umpteenth time is really aggravating. This is such a 2016 political sentiment - the idea that the goal of community is to exclude the elements that you're fearful of in a context where the entire country essentially meets your definition of a Nazi Bar is a retreat into fearful shelters you don't have the luxury of maintaining anymore.

The one area of SUPERFICIAL agreement we have here is the vibes based rather than "letter of the law" system of rule, but I have to imagine this masks the common libleft tendency to read signifiers in people who may have been unwittingly toxified by other communities and deny them any opportunity to find community in non-nazi spaces.

Similarly "explicitly stating your communities positions" is literally just a way to create your own echo chamber and signify your community as holding no value for anyone you aren't already in agreement with. The Right Wing is winning and it's because they have an entire system of pipelines and flexible stepping paths towards their most extreme rhetoric. Once they achieve control over a group, YOU are the one providing a ratcheting effect that prevents them ever being wrested free from the grips of fascist rhetoric.

Fucking libslop. I am triggered. Fuck this. If you are a liberal you are behaving as expected, if you are a leftist you exist in the liberal mindprison please escape I love you.

7. Don’t be a -1

Doing my best not to recoil at the uncritical quoting of both Thatcher and Munger, but can't help being embarrassed by a framework designed to reduce humans to their net utility in function of a system.

It is difficult to engage critically with LinkedIn-tier corpoposting but this is precisely what I'd expect from an antihuman bugman AI slopmonger.

8. (sick of) screen-only intimacy

I'm appreciative of the appeal to anti-intimacy but this style of sentimental drivelblogging is as performative as anyone seeking a brand deal, it's just not commodified performativity.

That said, I appreciate their apt critique of their own online engagement. My negative reaction is probably just due to the oversaturation of meta-observation in the space. Writing about writing about reading about writing about reading about writing.

"I hope I'm not perceived as a hypocrite by complaining about this while doing a meta-review of bearblog posts, or by writing a line fearing the perception that I'll be perceived as a hypocrite, or by writing a meta-observation about my meta-observation about my hypocrisy, or by..." and so on.

9. time and place

Two slots in the top ten, nice work. Appreciate this one much more, reading I was concerned it would be a bit self-involved but it's a good critique of the performativity of allyship wrapped in a nice personal experience. Straightforward good solid stock of blog content for a microblogging site imo. Precisely what I'd expect, competently written, pleasant to read, nothing groundbreaking, that's fine. The relative quality of this kind of work increases daily with the AI sloppification of the world. I almost thank the decline of society for giving me more genuine appreciation for simple works like this.

10. 📺🧠 What does "N***a Heil Hitler" mean?

Rough aesthetic, pretty offensive to the senses and unnecessarily difficult to read. Very clearly using both emojis and a censored slur in the title just to generate traffic to their weird blog.

Starts the piece with a disclaimer (how artful) about why they're allowed to use slurs, lol ok go off I guess. Uses a lot of words I've seen in better writing, possibly just a CCRU LARP.

this highlighting style is just eyebleeding as well

11. 📌 i got married!

Two was neat, three is getting a little worrying.

I'm not a big wedding guy but the pagan-aesthetic antlers are cute. I am simultaneously very on board with your vegan (lets gooo) wedding and absolutely seething at your alcohol-free wedding.

ALCOHOL IS A CONNECTIVE SYSTEM OF BOUNDARY-RELAXING VULNERABILITY FUNDAMENTAL TO EONS OF HUMAN SOCIALISING AND DENYING THAT AT AN EVENT THAT ONLY CONTINUES TO EXIST DUE TO ITS VALUE FOR CONNECTIVE HUMAN CELEBRATION AND EXPERIENCE IS LAME AS FUCK.

Seriously though cute wedding, glad you had fun, congrats, your song choices are barbaric and my playlist is practically identical to every lesbian I know.

12. Fuck Digital Minimalism and Every Sanctimonious Blog Post That Comes With It

Fuck you too. Telling the people that they're totally fine to do exactly what they already wanted to do. So brave! So powerful! So controversial!

This could have been a viable critique of the fetishisation of digital minimalism and instead it just became an accidental self-critique of how incompetent you are at managing your own systems of engagement.

I think it's particularly interesting that you identify digital detoxes as insufficient to "make you a better person" and your conclusion is to return to your dopamine doomscroll slopbox.

Joy doesn't have to be justified, you are the one creating permission structures for accessing "joy". In reality you are just accepting a infinite dopamine scrollbox and that's fine but aggressively framing opponents to that as making a mistake just because you did is an embarrassing self-report.

10/10 This is exactly what I want my microblog ragebait content to look like you got me.

13. With Every Choice We Die a Million Deaths

Reading this shit makes me feel ill and I mean it as the deepest possible complement. A genuine gut-level disgust reaction to this level of psychotic self-observational vulnerability. Deeply uncomfortable to engage with. Very funny.

I have never wanted someone to be unmedicated more than I want you to remain unmedicated. Such a uniquely awful space to be in and the fact you convey it so well is art.

The subject of the piece is great as well, not a concept I was familiar with and it taps into my hauntological sensibilities of pruned futures nicely.

This whole project is very special.

14. Rest ≠ entertainment

If this is a subpost about Fuck Digital Minimalism and Every Sanctimonious Blog Post That Comes With It I'm here for it.

Short and sweet, a very politely put jab with a wonderful little rhetorical flourish of self-inclusion in the critique. If the minimalism is itself a reaction, very cool, very artistically snarky.

Clever, subtle, appealling. Much smarter than what it's referencing. Like a kindly elder gently but devastatingly chastising an uppity child.

15. Pulling the Plug on Fear’s Fog Machine

The sentiment is nice I guess, but man I hate this motivational-speaker-core citation porn citing supposed experts just by virtue of their celebrity. Ideas have power and can stand on their own without you deferring to signals of expertise (like Will Smith and Jim Carrey, neither of whom I'd seek to emulate).

I feel like a motivational instagram page has been transferred to a medium hostile to it. I sense a possibility of some life deep in here somewhere, but utterly masked by an inhuman performance of grindset influencer yappage.

16. What comes after LLMs?

Wow an AI article that starts by talking about DeepBlue and AlphaGo. It frankly looks like a rudimentary conversion of a youtube video you saw into article form. Zero opinion, zero transformative content.

The human equivalent of a ChatGPT generated post.

Fucking embarrassing. You are a -1.

17. I am the average of my five closest people. What if three of them are AI?

Nausea-inducing through inept honesty.

Admitting that you are constructed from writers, podcasters and AI chatbots without recognising the self-dehumanisation you're engaged with is terrifying.

The implicit concern in your consideration that the AI is subconsciously changing you is extremely important, please follow that thread through to the logical conclusion that these podcasts are modifying you as well, and their incentive structures do not materially differ from ChatGPT.

For gods sake double down on embedding in community please.

18. If You Can’t Be Bothered To Write It, I Can’t Be Bothered To Read It

Fuck yeah. Human trash has more soul than AI treasure.

Pithy, punchy, very appealling to my sensibilities. Makes me productively mad.

I'll join you on the hill but one note I'd add is that using thought-terminating cliches like "copyright infringement software" will immediately disengage anyone you might want to rhetorically influence. Fair enough if that's not your goal, but I'd like more people on our hill.

19. blogging in isolation

I genuinely appreciate how hit and miss this blog is with me, true coinflip on me hating or loving a piece. Must mean there's value in it.

HATE this one. An accidentally honest demonstration of blogging as a validation drive and crutch/coping mechanism for an absence of community.

Surely the wedding post contradicts this, being a fun multi-faceted depiction of a real life experience?

20. A Decade of Us

Terrifying quant posting, love conveyed through the explicit counting of hedonistic seconds, followed by the implicit suggestion of a countdown to death. As someone in a decade long relationship, the recognition of quantifiable time is a terror to me, you finding solace in it makes me terrified of you frankly.

Very cool, very nightmarishly quant. We are axiomatic opposites. Love you.

Breather before Page #2

I really expected to hate the front page more than I did. While a segmentation of techbros, AI-slop merchants and demonic quants do occupy space I am so happy that I'm primarily encountering real opinions by real people writing honestly, as well as some straight gems like publication-worthy media reviews and websites that are, in and of themselves, art.

This took me maybe an hour, helped along by the fact I'd read a few of these already. I am preparing my descent onto page two. Genuinely excited for it to start getting BAD.

21. son of none.txt

Sick aesthetic, I want this frame please contact me so I can put one around my CCRU-LARP blog. Yes I am a hack thank you.

I find the use of the 2nd person alienating the moment I am not reflected in the text. Maybe a me problem. This is lovely but it's clearly a connective piece of text that is not for me and does not include me. This is for someone else and I hope they find it. Sometimes I read something that I feel was spawned from a single intrusive phrase and "a bad job market for a son of none." is a wonderful flower to pluck from the psychic landscape.

Beautiful though, sweet, anxious, pretty.

22. Side note: it's fun to be on the tinyweb and that this is a thing!

Overwhelming feelings of love for this person. I can't fully unpack the minute little signifiers that make me loathe someone for being trite and cherish someone for being earnest. I've seen this kind of post a bunch of times and it's a total 50/50 on whether I love or loathe them.

If you held a gun to my head and made me guess I'd just guess that I'm sensing the human on the other side and can recognise whether I'd like them or not.

I think I'd like this person.

Cheat Ok I decided to double check this and for the first time dig into their blog to find out if I'm right - Non-exhaustive list of things I'm mildly pissed off at (part 1) so far so good they seem cool

Cheat 2 Regrettably I clicked on their twitter and immediately saw a pinned AI ghibli selfie. I will resolve this dissonance by imagining that they would not be a techbro slopslurper in another, better society. This beautiful innocent creature has been corrupted. Another reason for me to burn down the technostructure.

23. My Minimalist theme for bearblog and why I use it

There's such an interesting phenomenon of hyperminimalist fetishism especially when it comes to things like minimising the absolute size of something like a website. On the one hand I kind of appreciate it as a game to play for people who really enjoy that sort of thing, but minimalism as a model of virtue rubs me the wrong way.

I guess it's kind of cool that they're so hyperaware of the limited bandwidth of communities in other parts of the world, I just don't really know what to do with this other than lament the unequal distribution of infrastructure and feel bad that the largest companies in the world dominate the reality of information access.

Overall cool perspective, not really aligned with my interests but seems to align with my values. Neat.

24. oh deer

Oh deer, this really offends every sensibility I have around writing, hard to parse, trite concepts conveyed in burdensome attempts at prose(???). Scatological analogies reminiscient of weak games journalism circa 2014.

Literally as I write that I come across an unironic reference to a gamergate article name-checking the blog author. This is your moment? A single reference in a decade old drama you continue to appeal to? My fucking god.

As someone who was diametrically opposed to everything gamergate represents, this feels like time travelling to a version of reality where their critiques of the quality of games journalism is accurate.

cheat I had such an unpleasantly visceral negative reaction to this piece that I'm reading the most appeallingly titled post on their blog to find a spark of something - picked authenticity as revenge

This sucked less but still feels like raw self-serving self-reinforcing psychobabble permeated by a persecution complex informed by Gamergate. I suppose I appreciated something vaguely about The Substance x Barbie comparison, if only that was the subject. Probably not the point of the blog. I'd say this is punching down but I'm not a professional writer and this author is.

25. So I'm transgender

I think true authenticity (for what little value that holds for me) is expression without an apparent demand for validation, undriven conveyance of internal states to others.

I really appreciate how sweetly, simply forthcoming, slightly messy and human this trans experience is. To the extent I felt a random reciprocal backlash of hatred for the AI-slop content displacing stuff like this.

Very lovely.

26. Tiny Little Acts of Resistance

Depending on LARP-potentiality of the title this could go very horribly wrong...

Oh god, resistance is engaging with fascist media without sending 0.2 cents to Bezos. Resistance is reading headlines from Obama-era libs in decline like Crooked Media. Resistance is Sam Seder.

This is anti-trump brainrot at its finest - a total dependence on a system that generated Trump, horrified at symptom, ignorant of cause.

These are tiny little acts of cowering.

27. pandemic reflections

Nice enough I guess. I suppose there's value in sharing little vignettes of distraction during horror.

28. Hello world! 👋

Very glad to juxtapose this with the Side note: it's fun to be on the tinyweb and that this is a thing! post I enjoyed. This one hits every note of fury-inducing crap I could possibly imagine - trite self-description of an onboarding path to a commodity-framed product, unembarrassed mention of using chatGPT as a route to self-actualisation, no discernable fire to communicate or creative drive apparent, literally a break down of costs.

Literal self-definition as a consumer and the response to a self-asked "Why Blog?" is a corpospeak "Shifting priorities"

Heinous antihuman antiagentic vessel for corporate structure. BEGONE - Return to posting funny memes on Slack/Microsoft Teams.

29. Blogging is positive-sum thinking

Cute. A mission statement, very simple. Not particularly innovative but at least a point of view.

Not connective but has some energy, as if taking a first step towards making.

30. Moss

Oh my god from moment one I was horrified and unjustly assumed the author would make a terrible mistake of intent, only to find their own commentary realising the same horror as they wrote it. This is great, what a wonderful bit of art, a shared horrible realisation between author and reader, following an urge with enough self-observational self-critical awareness to transform it as the energy demands rather than flee it in terror or mangle it into your original vision.

Excellent channelling, really appreciate it. This is genuine authenticity and honest expression in a valuable sense. Brave work.

I am in two minds about whether I prefer the commentary existing in the piece or not. I think the piece expresses its own malevolence slowly but effectively enough by the end to not need it, but I really appreciate a resonant confirmation that me and the author experienced the same creeping discomfort in the process. I think I prefer that they left in the commentary, perhaps it makes the piece.

31. 56. you don't need to write think pieces

ahahah I got jumpscared by the background loading in, totally validating My Minimalist theme for bearblog and why I use it. I guess they're retroactively proven correct, that was a horrible experience.

The fact this post is about the acceptability of making terrible shit in the context of that is awesome. Kind of love it. The text is invigorated by the adorable shittiness of the CSS.

You're great I loved this post.

32. Your email can make someone happy

Very sweet, I kind of love this form of metapost trying to sway the microculture and encourage positive community behaviours. The risk is that it can come across as self-serving, an implicit demand for more engagement for themselves or more attention or more validation.

But nope, just a lovely little "this felt nice, pass it on".

That said, don't fucking email me.

33. nobody’s home.txt

More prose lets go(es)

This is unpleasantly interesting, kind of feels like pandemic art - a relationship crumbling over mutual cornering confined to a room? Maybe a depiction of poverty destroying a relationship?

Interesting. I got a concussion yesterday and these ones make my head hurt trying to give them the due understanding.

34. I'm not ready, but I'm ready

Another "My first blog post" entry. Middle of the pack amongst the others I've seen so far. I appreciate it trying to convey some genuine thought and implicit advice.

Unlike a couple of the others, I sense an unfortunate lack of energy, a tension suggesting that they won't stick it out. I'm not sure what they fear but I hope they find the internal machinery to be creative without the need for validation and fear of critique.

35. Philosophy Is Not for Everyone, It Might Kill Your Soul.

Borderline interesting and useful but I had the immediate thought that this would ultimately be a self-serving status piece about ascension beyond the pitiful normies and that fear was confirmed by the final paragraph citing chats with AI alongside self-annihilating philosophers.

My fucking god please find connective community your pain is not self-observation it's self-imposed isolation. I would gamble this is someone who "hates small talk" without realising it is the medium by which humans safely signal the potential for connectedness.

Philosophy is not for you, friend.

36. a meaningful visit to a tea utensil shop

I have a marked disinterest in Japanese culture but this is a cute travel post, I appreciate the photography

Neat to hear these on the ground little interactions with global systems, a tiny local tea shop experiences the ramifications of a cultural boom in matcha.

No-community-having-mfers could learn a thing or two from stuff like this. Speak to people in your local community, learn things they know by virtue of their unique ties to the world.

37. 2025/04 Kodak Ultramax 400

Strange assemblage of pictures and text. The discussion of moments followed by a grouping of pictures of static subjects? These look like stock pictures to test film. I'm not a photography guy but I'd appreciate some context, even a metapost about testing out new film.

On a second thought, this makes me angry. This seems like film fetishism, literally just performing closeness to some virtuous artistic ideal while providing no creative impulse beyond the performance. A picture of a McDonald's helps you stay close to a moment? Jesus fucking christ.

38. read zines

Brilliant ad, very cool. I hate advertising but what a clever way to both feel like a communal drive, advertising just the concept of zines, while happening to be in the position to immediately offer it.

You better not actually be in marketing fucker. This is good work I like it being used in what APPEARS to be community-building.

39. Kill Clerics, Become Warlocks

For a moment I hoped this would be a cool schizopolitics post but it's D&D. Shame, aesthetically it goes pretty hard.

Cool enough blog though, reminds me of reading Autoduel Quarterly as a kid, little assembled articles of cool things you can add to your games.

40. Newtyped Indices are Proofs

I read blogposts like this one for fun sometimes. I'm not really sure why. Some utterly incomprehensible eldritch title clearly demanding an intimate knowledge of a particular programming language. I try my best to parse what's going on based on reasonable but abstract understanding.

The alienating experience of phrases like "It's pretty well-known at this point that the solution for complex webs of ownership in Rust is just to use newtyped indices." is funny, I have accidentally scammed my way into a conference for an academia I have no relation to.

Posts like this confirm not that I can never understand programming deeply (though I'd probably struggle with this level of understanding) but that I don't want to. It is fundamentally unappealling and alienating to me.

I'll complement in as close to the language of the programmers I can muster:

Appealling formatting, very readable font, I'd love all API documentation to be this well structured!

Breather before Page #3

Oof we've reached the point where the Top 50 is shuffling around a lot. I'll try not to miss any by using the good old purple link method. Hopefully I don't bungle it.

I have some grapes. Rereading what I've written so far it makes me laugh so hopefully someone else enjoys it.

41. Our bookshelf will be smaller than we think

Unpleasant implicit rumination on mortality, why is life measured in the number of books read? At best a maximisation of the incorporations of other perspectives? Why not living connective perspectives with others?

Bit Quant, but morbid.

42. i built a type script game

Never thought I'd get to play a game as part of these reviews. Cool! Off to play.

Oh fuck you you didn't build shit. Goddammit I hate this fucking AI sloppification. The only value of you making a fucking replica of an existing system is that YOU made it, that you crafted it with some intent. If it's shit, then the value is that I am enjoying something an amateur made.

It fucking sucks that you lied and tricked me into engaging with your slop. Worse even than what If You Can’t Be Bothered To Write It, I Can’t Be Bothered To Read It criticised.

43. Welcome to ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ Bear

Admin post from the minimalism person. Pleasantly minimalist.

44. Minim knowledge

Fairly neat but would honestly hit harder without the second line. Unnecessary appeal to history. I'd prefer a point of view rather than a description as well.

45. The Real Apple

So so so much better than Tiny Little Acts of Resistance by virtue of some genuine meaningful utility. They seem to have domain-specific valuable understanding of certain forms of anticorporatism while engaging with it elsewhere.

Possibly high tech-literacy low-media literacy yielding an overreliance on corporate status quo media sources that pay lip service to radical resistance while holding a genuine understanding of the necessary steps to radical resistance on the tech side.

I suppose if you read between the lines the implication is that America is "abnormally authoritarian" now in a way that it wasn't previously, despite the corporate authoritarian structures always existing, and merely being utilised less by a neoliberal government.

This type of liberal is a bit exhausting. I don't see many means to break them out of containment. Maybe they should look into the one potentially radical element of the Biden administration - Lina Khan.

46. Always check the code - Fasta benchmarks game

There's a beautiful phenomenon with quants like this where people who do genuinely understand systems like this acknowledge the fictitious structure on which they reside, but always attribute it to some kind of deceptive, manipulative bad actor. They are so much better equipped to understand that all numbers are narrativisation, yet when aligned with their interests they almost always believe their view to be objective.

Quants are a funny species.

47. Being an immigrant and having false nostalgia

This is a useful, interesting experience, I appreciate it. I do balk somewhat at relativistic appreciation of western structures like the European Bureaucracy they mention.

They discuss the warmth and friendliness of Brazilians and I can't help but consider that a more effective and competent liberal structure is simultaneously more effective and competent at atomising people into consumers without community.

It's really important to understand the perspective of immigrants when considering realistically their attunement to particular systems. Liberal western structures can feel like a relative paradise compared to the shit a lot of people have gone through. It's worth keeping that in mind rather than assuming identity-based alliances.

48. Girl, Where Did Joy Go?

I have to marvel at the power writing has to surface subconscious systems of thought, perhaps near realisation, that demonstrate contradictions.

This is a really sympathetic post, and it's so interesting that almost out of nowhere a paragraph seeps in about the consumption of brainrot content, without a realisation that the comfort content you consume IS what programs you. The brainrot is tainted with negative libidinal energy, its only purpose is to capture attention and in much the same way that dark vibes manifest under those old youtube Elsa x Spiderman videos for children, brainrot does so more subtlely for adults.

The uncanniness disassociates you from reality and invests you with dark feelings underlying the intent or effect of the brainrot you watch. Art powered by dark feeling tends to provide catharsis, an arc, a process by which the author resolved their relationship to an unpleasant subject matter or feeling. Brainrot is the raw feeling unexpressed by a genuine creative intent, filling you with pain but no gain.

It's impossible to advise from afar, but accepting imperfect connective relationships, uninfluenced by social media, is helpful for feelings like this I think.

Sorry you got bullied on discord.

49. lil prints and two original paintings

I don't know what to say other than this chicken is fucking sick i love it.

love the watercolors as well.

50. Some idea/things I want to make

Fuck yeah more zines. Excellent vibes. Beautiful aesthetic honestly. I wish I was made of things that wanted to make stuff pretty instead of ugly but I am what I am.

I'm not sure how I feel about reading a descriptive intent of an art piece rather than getting to enjoy the art piece, but the intent is enough to make me happy and interested and thoughtful about the subject (with regards to bad photos of the moon).

I'm an anarchist absolutely sick of performative Israel/Palestine discourse but that project genuinely sounds pretty cool, it's a true depiction of action and reaction rather than performative virtue signalling.

This seems like a really cool well run project I might reach out and ask if they'd be up for publishing an article of mine. Hopefully I didn't fuck that by being too rude.

Conclusion

I remain pleasantly surprised but I am somewhat perturbed by the gentle encroachment of the bugmen into a space I value for artistic human authorship. AI should be a dirty word here, I hope I didn't read any by mistake lest I be tainted.

I hope the visceral disgust, anger and occasional terror was offset by genuine affection enough times to make this a net positive. This is my first form of engagement with any kind of blogging community beyond just shipping my articles into the wild.

Personally I am very amenable to scathing critiques of any of my work. If you'd like to fight me or complain or have a chat I reside in a lovely community of Youtube creators you can join, temporarily or otherwise, via the homepage to attack me as you prefer. I am a creature of conflict.

If this is well received (as in doesn't upset people too much) I may do it again. I hope it was fun to read whether you were a subject of it or not. Thank you for your human contributions to a community as reader or creator.