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every ig update reminds me of how far i am from the life i was promised. i was supposed to be working at buzzfeed making six figures writing listicles wearing those studded steve madden pumps and posting only squares with the rio dijanero filter.
every ig update is like a new gunshot to my already bleeding body. theyāre useless and unwanted. idgaf about turning my feed to rectangles. show me who unfollowed me. next update is gonna be a tab with two buttons: one sucks your dick and the other shoots you in the face except you donāt know which one is which. honestly iād rather have that instead of the rectangles. Modernity I Rebuke You.
Jan 17, 2025
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i feel like atp everyone has acknowledged that instagram has gone to shit. maybe we should just collectively uninstall
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IG is so fucking boring these days. I've had enough. I post intimate and weirdly overthetop "poems" of sorts about the nitty gritty details of my life. I lose followers with every post and that gives me such a rush. Shake up that algorithm and let me know what's REALLY going on in your life!
Jan 30, 2024
āCOMPARISON IS THE THIEF OF JOYā
āDISCARD ANYTHING THAT DOESNāT SPARK JOY.ā
You donāt need to have these people in your life. Unless they make you laugh or give you wisdom, their content has no value to you. I followed so many people because of their expensive interesting clothing, aesthetic pictures of places Iām not going to go to, and features of their appearance that I donāt have. If not for social media, their life would not be connected to mine at all! Your life is fine, as is theirs, social media isnāt real. I havenāt unfollowed all of them yetā¦maybe some day. Clicking that unfollow button feels pretty freeing. Iām going to be a careful mindful brainy netizen in this life.
So goodbye niche internet micro-celebrities, parting is such sweet sorrow.
Mar 3, 2024
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in early 2022, i had somewhat of a menty b and abandoned my tumblr, which i used for like 12 years. watching tumblr go from toxic to wholesome and self-aware** and then back to toxic over the years made my eye twitch. "not this shit again." so i stopped doomscrolling and i stopped posting on social media, save for a few very rare and random occasions. my instagram became an instrument solely for the purpose of sending my partner memes and saving craft project ideas.
2022, 2023, and now 2024 have passed. my life did not get easier, especially this past year when i lost a friend to cancer, had my job nuked by my state government, and everything else that made 2024 in america particularly trash. i also exist in a marginalized body so there's no real way of escaping constant news of doom. my aversion to living any aspect of my life with an online audience of strangers only grew. seeing people i once knew become addicted to shame because the internet rewards it was particularly disheartening. watching those people become indoctrinated in real time made me feel really hopeless.
so as much as i hate the idea of self-surveilling, i had to admit to myself that i have a lot to give, a lot to share. from all the reading i've done on the human condition in the past 3 years, it seems the only way to combat hopelessness is to share meaning with others. i'm still mostly going to do that offline, but i was happy to find that a platform such as pi.fyi exists because i hate algorithms and people sharing what they like with others is so human.
my corn mittens post getting so much love (tysm btw) made me feel very human, but also kind of sick from all the dopamine hitting my underprepared brain. overall, a great experience posting anything for the first time in years.
**in terms of tumblr, i mean. i realize this is not everyone's experience.
Dec 19, 2024
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i feel like an 80s mobster. or a 19th century bachelor with an unfortunate attraction to bohemia. someone who wouldāve been called a rake in those days bc i was dancing with married women and gambling and learning french instead of carrying on the bloodline or courting duchesses.
Feb 9, 2024
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once at summer camp one of the counselors told me the starburst wrappers were edible so i started eating starburst without taking the wrapper off and it wasnāt unpleasant it was a nice change of texture tbh and i did it for years after and only then did i google if they were edible or not and they were not and iād just been eating paper all these years. i was 15 when i learned this. still eat em w the wrapper sometimes tho.Ā
Jan 6, 2024
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all the ppl i let put it in me while i was living in paris are in town. perhaps our bodies remember eachother. perhaps iāll let u hit raw again.
Feb 6, 2024