#would i be internet famous then??

[pure-egotism]

I wonder if I could hit 5,000 followers in the next month omg

[psychicbby]

imagine being one of dan’s flatmates in his first yr of uni lmfaoo??? like ok here comes this guy and like the first day he shuts himself in his room to play video games. ok cool whatever maybe he’s nervous. most of the time you never see him bc apparently he has an older friend nearby that he’s always with. when he is in the hall he’s burning pasta bc he’s cooking inept and staring down the washer bc he doesn’t understand how to do his own laundry. oh and he makes videos for youtube where he talks to himself (again this is like 2010). so after barely seeing this man the entire term you find out he’s dropped out of uni. ok whatever you never really think about him again until you’re on youtube and you see his face on the homepage. his video has like millions of views and thousands of likes. oh, there’s the friend he was spending all that time with. somehow he’s become some sort of an internet celebrity??? lmfaooooo. what a serve on dan’s part.

[graynide]

hello Everybody from the Captain Underpants and Slay The Princess fandom (and from my other old hyperfixations) Didnt know i already reaCHED 200 FOLLOWERS?? Here on this platform!?

hope you all enjoy the little corner ive made to cure my anxities about my existence in this world! i honestly never thought id have an audience who appreciates my creations made for myself. Especially the perceiving part- ohh boy thats a heavy thought

[omegalomania]

be seriously unserious

[thresholdbb]

PSA

I love the Star Trek fandom community and its boundless creativity. That said, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect and give proper attribution when your work is inspired by other artists or a particular niche. There is an unfortunate tendency to steal ideas and posts without giving credit, which is both unfortunate and disingenuous

Part of being in a community is how you engage with other members of that community, and underhanded behavior does not get us any closer to a Starfleet future

"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth or historical truth or personal truth! It is the guiding principle on which Starfleet is based, and if you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth... you don't deserve to wear that uniform." -Jean Luc Picard

[mylittleredgirl]

if i could go back in time for any one single possession i have lost over the years i’d have to think long and hard before abandoning the family heirlooms to their fates and going back for a glittery purple keychain i bought in 2003 at a gas station in woonsocket, rhode island of an old-fashioned keyboard/crt computer monitor setup that said “✨ I’m Famous on The Internet ✨”. if you pressed a button on the back it lit up and made the windows xp startup noise.

[sprolden]

spent an entire morning trying to take down an old account of mine from when i was 13 and it really reaffirmed to me that being famous in this day and age seems like nothing but a nightmare to me. while i was taking it down all i could think was "god, i hope no one ever looked me up and found this, that would have been so embarrassing" but for some reason when you're famous people think it's fair game to dig up ancient tweets and posts made by a random person for their 14 followers like they say something about the celebrity with an audience of millions they would later become. the constant paranoia of what's possibly out there that i've forgotten about by now would send me into a complete meltdown

[hychlorions]

apollo could never have a public twitter account while he's dating klavier bc he'd probably tweet something like "i'm just saying if you know they're VERY PUBLICLY dating somebody WHY would you still agree to sleep with them" and then the news will be all "klavier gavin cheated? klavier gavin cheating scandal?!" then later that day apollo has to clarify that "no he isn't cheating on me. we're catching up on celebrity news" and i think this would happen regularly

[oozeandgoo-art]

[op3ra]

tired medic

[coquelicoq]

crying laughing @ this edition of le fantôme de l'opéra that my dad got me for christmas it's just. i don't know how to describe it. every page is a scan of a page of the 1926 edition, with like 1-2 inches of margin around it??? and the letters are so small and the scan is not of very great quality so it's kind of hard to see the words?? interspersed with scans of pictures but some of them are upside down??? there's one page where the scan didn't really work in the upper left corner so it's just totally black???

the back of the book says

Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages de la littérature Française mise en place avec la BNF. HACHETTE LIVRE et la BNF proposent ainsi un catalogue de titres indisponibles, la BNF ayant numérisé ces œuvres et HACHETTE LIVRE les imprimant à la demande.

(my rough translation: This publication is in line with a policy instituted in conjunction with the BNF (National Library of France) for the conservation of important works of French literature. In service of this goal, Hachette Livre and the BNF are offering a catalogue of unavailable titles digitized by the BNF which Hachette Livre will print upon request.)

so like this is on purpose but i have so many questions. first of all why the margins. okay i guess that is my most important question. why not just make the book correspond to the size of the pages in the original? or, if the size of the book is fixed, you could at least size up the images to use as much of that wasted space as possible, no?

i want to say how ridiculous this is and how there's no market for it but there clearly is one because i asked my dad to get it for me! i'm the market!! i told him to buy this edition because it was the only french-language print edition i could find to buy in the us for less than $50 (outside of amazon because fuck amazon). but like, why is that the case? the full text of this book, in plain text which could easily and legibly be printed, is available for free on the internet. why isn't there some publisher who's just printing that out and binding it? seems easier to do than printing scans. not to mention a lot easier to read!!

(to see what i'm talking about, go to the hachette BNF webpage for this book and click on feuilleter to download a sample of the pages in PDF)

[cassowariess]

Very tired of living in a world where people have taken the very real and reasonable phrase: "men get abused too" and weaponized it to mean: "every famous powerful man who I personally like that did something bad is automatically innocent uwu."

[13eyond13]

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[bandzboy]

this incessant need people have of comparing artists and claiming one is better than the other when most of the time it comes down to opinion is crazy

[zoekrystall]

Saw certain tweets and here once again a reminder which a twt mutual luckily wrote shorter than I could (plus public so I can rb bc no way I do that myself on that site)

Also

And if you want smth I wrote myself which is longer and not just abt that here you go

[maretriarch]

what did chappell roan think being famous was