@the_wilderless ppl are competing for other ppl's attention, mostly? quieter beauty tends to be more expensive and less attention grabbing than something jarring & unnatural
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Reply · Apr 19, 2023sigh please no, no one needs to impress me and I'd be better off w less attention rn- you're making me anxiousReply · Aug 3, 2023@orthonormalist just that it's less surprising than you might think if it was a random collection of average online ppl attracting attention from the…Reply · Apr 18, 2023I mean attention economy and all right? and more generally, ppl try to give a bit and then get fed up and say enoughReply · Apr 27, 2026@47fucb4r8c69323 um like the sort of thing that is alluring to a particular sort of nerdy brain but will waste a large amount of their time &…