I’m a twenty‐eight‐year‐old with antidepressants, so I’ll probably get over this before (or at least shortly after) the year ends, but lately I’ve been acting angsty and much more introverted than usual.

One of my goals was to post something to capitalismindecay daily, but I’ve been pretty lazy with that and my excuse is that what I’d like to share is likely going to receive fewer than five upvotes (i.e. only a few—if any—people will care), so what’s the point. I may was well keep the knowledge to myself since that way I won’t waste my own time.

I haven’t been sharing as much news lately either.

That’s just how it’s most obvious, though. In other media I’ve been even less active. I don’t see the point in using Discord, Instagram, Steam, Tumblr, or even emailing people since the response rate has to be lower than 10%, and when they do reply, it’s often along the lines of ‘I’m busy right now’ or ‘nah’. (This is more‐or‐less why I deleted my Twitter account yesteryear, and why I’ve quit so many Discord servers over the years that now I’m down to only two. In fact, I haven’t logged into Discord for about three weeks. I’ll likely log back in, but I don’t know when that’s going to happen.)

If I could somehow address every single ‘content creator’ who ever said something like ‘please leave us a comment, we’d love to read it’: fuck you for lying to innocent people, and fuck you for wasting their time.

I’ll probably get over this phase once I’m taking my antidepressants more consistently. For now I’m just keeping to myself, mostly. Worst case scenario is that I’ll deliberately misbehave since so few people notice me anyway. It’s usually a nice, consequence‐free way to have a little fun…usually.

  • i_must_destroy@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 years ago

    I feel like people seem way worse since Covid. Probably a combination of a lot of things, but I’ve noticed a sharp drop off in behavior I see IRL.

    Sometimes it feels hopeless. Even people I know who are somewhat nice spew reactionary bs. I’m honestly shocked when people are a basic level of respectful to other people now. It’s bleak.

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      2 years ago

      I second this. It seems that the brakes are off for a lot of people. Rude people everywhere. People are more short tempered, more racist, more unhinged than before Covid. It really did a number on a lot of people.

      Football fans and people going out seem to be the most visible change for this. Over here, there’s weekly hooligan fights at almost every match. Going out to a bar results in fights almost every weekend now. It’s like a lot of people just stopped caring.