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@planetshefali I have to go to the immigration office later today and that always racks my body with stress ๐ The more long-term subtle pains are at least washed away for this tempest!
One of the strange things about this is how I can't remember when the focus switched from "like count" (an active measurement) to simple "views" (a passive measurement).
The mentality is then all about drawing in eyeballs at any cost to make number go up.
I believe seeing live viewer counts on every online interaction has made us extremely paranoid of when people stop paying attention during irl conversations
@_buildspace Maybe I should go back and do more trimming just because. Although it begins to hurt when I dig too deep and earth up old flakes of nostalgia.
This account is from 2008 after all.