#even though 'billionaires being crushed by immense depth pressure' has as much dark comedy value as 'billionaires slowly suffocating'

[pochapal]

my only submarine hot take is that i think there's something weirdly fascinating about the way that everyone knows they obviously imploded on that first day but there's been this make believe kind of funeral march towards the inevitable minute zero of the oxygen supply. everyone has been obsessing over these imagined people in this imagined space and it's been a totally ineffective conjuration since nobody really believed these people have been trapped on the ocean floor for the best part of four days and yet so many people have been talking and operating in this pretend realm. the Posts aren't about the implosion the posts are all about this imagined dragged out slow death by asphyxiation and i think it's just interesting how this blatantly unreal narrative is what everyone glommed onto as their mode of expression for this event. i can't really think of any other time people so readily leaned into the pretend version of events like this?