KelvarCherry [They/Them]

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Cake day: February 28th, 2026

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  • This is a valid and essential role. Remember when the corporate media was spamming out all those articles on “quiet quitting”? This is exactly what they fear. If you show up to work, clock in, do nothing of value, and clock out, you’re costing your workplace money AND denying them that role.

    If I could, I’d do the same. Apply to be some office grunt at Meta or Amazon, sweet talk my manager, do a bunch of meaningless work like configuring things on the PC and taking inventory of random shit, and then clock out. Gamify metrics. Plan stupid projects with the corpo chatbot. Burn money and time. It’s one of those “death by 1000 cuts” actions, and it benefits each individual person because you still get paid. Win-win.
















  • Nah I get all that, and I was never one for drama-bait or click-bait slop. I don’t particularly care for trends or social media at all. That last tangent was a little too out of the scope of the original discussion and a bit of a vent. Shutting off the world doesn’t change the world around me; doesn’t change the instability and unpleasantness of it all; though I do it many days anyways.

    For the bigger picture, I generally think TikTok and other social media is how racism and misogyny got popular. I’m old enough to remember when it seemed Leftist ideas dominated the internet. That fell, and I attribute much of that to the low-attention atmosphere and the way rage and hatred can remain captivating in that information ecosystem.

    Again, this content is not something I subscribe to; but that doesn’t stop them from gaining relevance. So I’m sick of all the constant stress; the stupidity of the masses; the absurdity of this all. “Polycrisis” is a term I recall reading in an article; and that’s what I’m feeling.

    Content is whatever. I fully subscribe to “Don’t like it? Find something else”. I just wish the bigger problems in my life and the overall changes in the wider world and internet could be “turned off” like a video or TV channel.


  • I’m only half-understanding this post. I think I agree with the message. I’m fed up and angry with how draining and uncertain the world is, and the constant click-baiting over minor aspects that seem meaningless to the overall picture (USA perspective) are possibly a part in how things got this bad. Most days I wish I could “cancel my subscription” to the overall scene. Perhaps that exhaustion is why his writing is less than coherent, or why I’m not reading it well.