#which i am talking about via online lol. like of theatre lately though i've done actual Live Audience attendance stuff

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speaking of it being exactly the point in time it is re: both impending 14th xmas show & impending / ongoing Tfw Twitter like naturally seeing more people posting like well btw my bluesky, which first i didn't check out b/c it was all oh invite from preexisting user only, & already i'm like twitter is not That for me lol. where i'm like hello bestie, invite code? though some ppl were just throwing them out for anyone. i also only ever followed so many people, no more than 300 probably. then i would've tried it out at least to see what was going on in there, but b/c it requires 2FA via phone i was like well i can't do that either lol. & by this point i'm like eh....cue flashback transition wavy image effect & harpesque or chimelike audio cues like ah my twitter journey itself lol. starting with, & at this point, & mostly in between, truly never very "social media" to me. but also that it has, as has all this, just that the supposed most "social" aspect of it wasn't relevant to me, rather, Also social aspects of platforms that just supposedly don't count as much or aren't the most proper real usage

like i forget i had a quite early twitter account again like just to try it, as i was more wont to do then i guess lol. never had an instagram account but like i did have a snapchat for a while (then used it so little i deleted it) & a vine (Was deleted. rip) but like twitter's 140 character limit then like um when you're Me? & even less image/video support but like that was never the main thing obv, & that it was just Early & like what was anyone using it for? well not much of interest until it was like, okay, this isn't like facebook about moving preexisting in-person connections online, there's not really room to even share much at once, not so In Usage ppl are really here for Topics on the completely general site & when they are just already doing that elsewhere....so like only when the "this is best suited to quick, realtime, real location updates about what's going on in your life" format became more relevant on twitter than as it was expressed on other platforms for Current Events(tm) / It's News & Politics Time reasons, then i was like oh okay i'm back

which was an uptick in Twitter Usage more generally i think, & thus more, & more varied, material on the site overall, & just that it had been around a while more & generally built that userbase & people organically figuring out what they want to do with it, which big time includes the current events live reporting & coordinating, uh oh i wonder if the richest shithead (& person) in the world ends up with this site ""despite"" its becoming so News relevant its basically part of public infrastructure (but not Actually Public, as per it being sold off, & ppl needing to privately have devices & services to even access it) & tanks that. so that i Really joined twitter as per its being News Site & that's definitely what it is to me now hence it's like well yeah i lose things by not having twitter if that's what it comes to, but i can more relevantly find parts of that in certain other actually primarily devoted to news sites & i am not particularly more motivated to get bksy which i can't anyway or instagram which i guess i could but i've been Mirror Sitesing it up for getting specific theatre material mainly lol & while there is inconvenience & limitation to that like, eh. just been rolling with it so far

anyway & like certainly a time when there were More Posts on the tl on twitter for me lol but it's also like, while i was never having whatever like peak normcore twitter experience lol lord but i was beset with like the Daily Big Convos like the so ever present "broad Media tastes / opinion statement ppl are bound to disagree with; qts about the obviousness of [really specific statement] or [also broad statement] if you're not tasteless & clueless & ruining culture" like hey kill me & this classic Still in my periphery sometimes. or the classic just New Media News discussions like all the tv & movies terms i Filtered Forever....but really like, as with many things, my fave genre was The Jokes. the standalone rts. the Events of be there for the night of jokes. that & mostly the current events side of things, main twitter to me lol

& like well it's not even Real that like oh what's Truly social in any context is what's most like a "normal" in-person chitchat. my god, phones are ruining Connection (ppl who don't want to talk to you or even be here anyway, who are interacting w/other ppl directly & indirectly) like well we're all existing in the context of affecting & being affected by everyone else in the world & who has been in the world so hope this helps lol. & like how i think about how like yeah as a kid i was for the most part stuck at home & Being Online was less of a thing but largely inaccessible anyway til a point (& still partially, & then Less So again for a few years) but like that i read all the time? what was Not Social about that in that people make books & people are behind a book existing where i can read it & people express things in books & i interpret them. what was Not Social about [same & me reading newspaper comics, news] & same & Tv & all these ways indeed Other People were within the realm of that home, obviously not physically present, obviously multiple degrees of indirectness, obviously they weren't chatting to me & i wasn't chatting back. & Yet.

then anyhow i'm like, sure did some of like fairly more "direct" thus supposedly "realer re: Social" Exchanges that are fun & i cherish but like the main thing in my mind re: the scrapbook that is My Twitter Memories is really like, dec 2019, primarily twitter is where i followed along w/that year's xmas xtrav. b/c i knew it existed at all already, certainly seen some material from prior shows lol, but yknow i'd only arrived on the scene really a year prior (nov/dec particularly, re: like think it was october i was like it's proper deh time / scene arrival, then into like wait this one actor some more, thus bmc & tbs quickly becoming known pretty thoroughly to me) & was following along w/bmc bway as i was just in time to really do, from the lgw recordings drop in dec onward....overlap w/the 11th annual show actually but that was too early lol, i was hardly awares. plus then also increasing busyness with "oops, shown up to billions big time as the [you're not supposed to exist] audience" lol. was not really expecting the bway closure to hit me w/Quite the level of malaise that it did, but aproposly that like the xmas show was well-timed where i could like lift up my head like hey yeah okay what are we doing here (joys & delights to follow) which, you know, considering the level of malaise for [many people directly involved] that was worked through to get up & do the incredibly high-effort show, & those people being like yeah good decision talk about a pickmeup (& obviously not knowing Last Chance For A While ahead of time, serendipity in hindsight) like i do treasure that for all of us

like had a great time even just following Fairly Real-Time Glimpses which i did primarily via twitter. the glimpses were Delights even with the like, light context of "i barely know anything about the xmas show yet" & "these are glimpses" like there are just things about the nature of these individual Moments that delight & invigorate me. what is the precise word joe was using about it that i was like Yeah That....checking the interview transcription from myself....wait not from the interview i thought it was from so now i'm just still trying to remember + describe w/synonyms myself like, the playfulness, the Whimsy, we're at all raucous we're giddy we're throwing snow & the entire audience is singing along & hugging each other & it's snowing inside 54 below & everyone leaves reeking of peppermint & happiness. what was i saying. well that i love this show i haven't even technically seen lol, certainly not in attendance as its indeed truest most direct form, but mine has what it has to me which is a lot. & has included that like what a surprise that what resonates so big time & harmoniously with me means like a no context peak novel clip of the chestnut medley on twitter in 2019 was sending me like oh i'm living. as set up to later be like, hiatus time? well i'm moved this december to dig Archivally through instagram & some of facebook stuff & find all these xmas shows & rehearsal material prior, which was indeed educational & only yet more of a delight. & here we are where i'm like [scream] & what a gift it was to me last year & it's like i live laugh love cry, truly, & yeah like the "whee xmas fun b/c the Least fun is both the solemn religious + At Home(tm) With Family(tm) stuff & the most fun is the spontaneous free for all elements" ya gotta wassail well!!!

anyway that's the tl;dr for me. perhaps the most specific cherished thing twitter did was be a portal that shows me the joe iconis christmas extravaganza