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.gitignore

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 BL_proxy/
 *.blend1
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src/script.org

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 much like funerals are for the living, this is a post-mortem to convince myself to move on from this project. Griddle Critters, let us understand shtikbot, so the mourning process can begin.
 
 ** inkling - snarky dick bot
-[slide up a garbage can]
 before this project, my fixation was the dumbest social network. the stupidest. the least intelligent.
-[spin it around to show the imgur logo]
+[dive into the trash can]
 imgur.
+let's go back in time and visit.
 if you think reddit's layout is confusing, or "dated", then maybe you
 [clip from tucker and dale where he buys her a padded helmet]
 [https://imgur.com/gallery/when-imgurians-try-reddit-Ni6cXY1]
-(or whoever you have to help you out) would like to sign up for imgur.com. let's go back in time and visit.
-[dive into the trash can]
+(or whoever you have to help you out) would like to sign up for imgur.com. 
 [show some old meme, but show filesize 2.1MB]
 for a while, imgur was the least bad way to get an image too big for any cell carrier's MMS limits to your friends.
 [show that comic that had that girl looking at some dumb thing wide-eyed]
 So that was where memes lived.
 [show something about youtube removing the dislike button]
-and, it allowed people to dislike things. So during that time, it was good.
+and, it allows people to dislike things. So during that time, it was good.
 
 people would upload a thing, and as a consumer, the thing that you consumed left you better than when you started.
 
@@ -34,21 +33,17 @@ That moment was the failure of gatekeeping.
 From that point on, every so-called community "value" collapsed. Notably, "reposting" gradually shifted from a faux pas to accepted practice.
 [https://imgur.com/user/RepostStatistics, https://imgur.com/user/RepostStatistics/index/best, https://imgur.com/gallery/KRb944U, https://imgur.com/gallery/g4CSaUx]
 meanwhile, someone had made an imgur bot that detects reposts, and then posts stats about how many times it's seen the image, and when it was posted with better quality.
+you can estimate how dumb an imgurian is by how virulent his hatred for repost bot is.
 
-you can measure how dumb an imgurian is by how virulent his hatred for repost bot is.
-
-during the decline of imgur, many more absolutely stupid ideas proliferated. Usually from outside.
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+during the decline of imgur, many more absolutely stupid ideas proliferated. Always from outside; nothing originates from imgur.
 The Left Cult enjoys calling out The Right Cult for hypocrisy... but it became fashionable to use the term "cognitive dissonance" instead.
-
 after all, that sounds more medical, more legitimate, and lets you tell yourself you're smarter than your mirror image.
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 but it's stupid. the way one outgrows their hypocrisy is by experiencing cognitive dissonance and resolving it. most people accused of cognitive dissonance are people who are blissfully unaware of their hypocrisy. they feel fine, no dissonance. so they will never stop being hypocritical.
 likewise, "gaslighting" was the shiny new toy in their vocabulary that was played with no matter how inappropriate.
 [set diagram of what gaslighting is, what deception is, and what contradiction is]
 For the record, gaslighting is when you convince someone they're mentally ill. It is not any and all forms of deception. and it certainly is not any time a member of a demographic you consider to be inherently inferior tells you you are wrong.
 [show a massive wall of text, magnifying glass sees "cognitive dissonance"]
-so at the time, i dreamt of a bot that would see the text "cognitive dissonance", and respond with "that's not what cognitive dissonance means." No need to do any sort of lexical analysis, just assume they're wrong. Ditto for gaslight.
+so at the time, i dreamed of a bot that would see the text "cognitive dissonance", and respond with "that's not what cognitive dissonance means." No need to do any sort of lexical analysis, just assume they're wrong. Ditto for gaslight.
 nowadays i'd have to add "generational" to that trigger list. 
 So while the community was growing to hate meaning and love reposts, the platform got worse. rather than being the technology that enables the sharing of memes, it degraded into a place for people to socialize through posting.
 I regret being too lazy or depressed or whatever to have actually written a snarky imgur comment bot. Alas, what could have been.
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 Overall we aren't /quite/ as dumb as imgurians, but i'm pretty sure a distressing portion of twitchists actually believe that giving more data to twitch does in fact increase their security.
 when discord introduced its ID collection practice... for the second time, after all the ids leaked from that same company the first time... you would frequently hear people say "I get what they're trying to do." I probably made it clear... I don't.
 We all hate the idea of kids being bullied into a mental disorder over the internet, but I thought we all grew out of the idea that moving trauma offline would reduce it?
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 Every time these platforms get worse, the response is always "well i'm not going to leave, though". 
 i've been evangelizing for the fediverse forever, and i'll probably continue until i die.
-I make fun of discord users for acting like matrix is the dark forest, but i do give them a slight pass because they're probably used to all the trash their employers and schools force them to use because some salesman convinced some higher up to go that direction.
-When Twitter gets worse for the billionth time, what platform do people move to? BlueSky, a.k.a., exactly twitter again. It's the exact same style, it's filled with the same reality-immune narcissists, and it's one man's private property, again. So why pick the worst option? the hive mind decides randomly. No one moves to mastodon, because no one moves to mastodon. People move to bluesky, because people move to bluesky.
+discord users act like matrix is the dark forest, but the majority of them have never been forced to use MS Teams.
+When Twitter gets worse for the billionth time, what platform do people move to? BlueSky, a.k.a., exactly twitter again. It's the exact same style, it's filled with the same reality-immune narcissists, and it's one man's private property, again. bluesky spread some propaganda that you could export your data, but i dare you to ask a bluesky user if they've seen a proof of concept of it. So why pick the worst option? the hive mind decides randomly. No one moves to mastodon, because no one moves to mastodon. People move to bluesky, because people move to bluesky. Yet somehow bluesky users act like they made a decision about choosing bluesky and not mastodon.
 why work on technology to improve platforms where the companies that own it hate their users and developers, and the users have this weird idea that they're better off than those of superior technologies?
 It would be a smarter use of effort to try to convince twitch to colonize kick.
 ** end
@@ -260,5 +254,6 @@ there's some kind of mark on shtikbot's account.
 That's the final straw.
 I'm sick of working against scumbags who want me to improve their product for them, in spite of them.
 to what end, even? a bot that lives on all of the platforms except the good ones? so that people who love being enclosed in a walled garden can take part of some features they don't understand?
-forget it. Let this project finally die.
+Full disclosure, a significant portion of this is probably just growing blackpilled over time. I don't want to help the world, have you been there?
+so forget it. Let this project finally die.
 shtikbot, my child. the world refused you. Rest now.