Dillan DiGiovanni breaks down precisely how to get 30K followers on twitter.
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Here’s how to get 30K followers on twitter, according to reality as it occurred for me recently:
Do not write meaningful posts to help make the world a better place.
Do not aspire to challenge people to think about reality as they know and experience it.
Do not immerse yourself in multiple communities and contexts to build trust, respect and relationships with like-minded people who also seek to make the world a better place.
Do not pass GO.
Do not collect $200.
Instead, post pictures of texts between you and your supposed girlfriend who allegedly cheated on you.
Make sure to make something intimate and difficult for many people into a joke.
Be sure to include lots of denigrating memes and jokes about her character, especially on the heels of a major social media shitstorm that brought to light the way women are often treated in our society.
To rub salt in the wounds of everyone, make sure you make a joke about killing her family.
Collect said texts and post them on the internet in a way that looks extremely well-crafted. Spend significant amounts of time on this because what the country needs right now is this hilarious and public shaming of a woman.
Pass GO and collect your 30K followers on twitter.
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Things like this make me officially want to quit. Quit my work. Quit my mission. Quit my vision. Seriously? Seriously. One of the best comments in the thread of this article about this “funny guy” said, “It’s 2014. Have we not learned this is fake?”
Based on recent comments around the internet, it seems it is fake. But here is what’s even more sad to me. From some of the comments, it’s more real to most people and the way they live their lives than it is a joke that something like this would ever happen OR be appropriate to post online.
I guess I live my life according to different standards, but it is yet another reminder of how our society rewards actions like this taken by your average American and then recoils in horror when people like Elliot Rodgers, or the person in Seattle recently, commit heinous acts of violence.
“HAHAHA it’s so funny this guy trashed his cheatin’ ho online.”
“NO MORE GUNS! No more deaths!”
#yesallwomen
#notallmen
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What am I missing here? Why isn’t the connection between rewarding negative. sexist behavior from men and the violence and injustice women experience more apparent? How can people be so fired up about something so sad and unfortunate one day and pass this post around like a hot potato the next? What is UP with the short-term memory, folks?
#WTF
I’ll keep pondering this to solve for x. And, in the meantime, I’m going to go write some more inspiring and introspective and, hey, maybe even funny posts that inspire people to be their best selves. And I’ll tweet them out to my 1,011 followers.
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photo courtesy of the author
Dillan has a website and is on twitter and aspires to have 30K followers someday, but not using the methods this guy used.