I'll level with you, reader, I'm not 100% sure what to write about today, so I'm going to do one of those stream of consciousness posts where I just start typing and see what happens. My Switch controller ran out of battery, y'see, so I couldn't keep on doing what I was doing, so I thought I might as well do this while I thought about it.
There's been a lot of very silly takes on social media today, mostly attempting to ride the tails of the English Hololivers' sudden explosion in popularity. This is kind of frustrating because, as I said the other day, the whole debut day for the Hololive English girls was remarkable in that it was a rare instance of everyone involved being happy, filled with joy and appreciating something all together. The "hot take" machines weren't paying any attention to it, what with it being a relatively niche interest thing, and so everyone was just free to enjoy things as they saw fit.
Today? We've had people trying to connect Western vTuber fandoms to bigotry and Nazism, paedophilia, sexual assault, groomers and all manner of other disgusting shit. This is really getting extremely tiresome, because it's a seemingly endless cycle; something new and exciting that people are genuinely happy for comes along, and the miserable bastard brigade have to come along and declare how it's "problematic" for everyone and you should probably feel ashamed for some reason because they said so.
Well, balls to all that. Once again, I find myself drifting noticeably away from any meaningful discourse on Twitter, and the temptation to just abandon it entirely raises its head once again. I might take another self-enforced break from the platform temporarily, because once again I can feel the never-ending negativity causing obvious cracks in my mental state. It's not healthy, and I hate it — particularly at a time like now, when there are people who want to be unconditionally enthusiastic and happy about something they're enjoying.
Anyway, that ended up being more of a rant than I intended it to be, but there you go. Have a lovely evening!
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