Why did you join X? To spout off about politics? Create great AI videos to share? Meet some like-minded people?
Iād bet none of you joined hoping a big account would follow you and occasionally acknowledge your existence. Yet thatās what this place has become for so many people.
When did follower count become the bar for who we value? Iād rather engage with someone with 1,000 followers whoās genuine than keep replying to a big account that ignores me 99% of the time.
But then they like one of your replies and your whole fucking day is made. If they repost you, call the medics. Somebody needs to be resuscitated.
Do you see how foolish this sounds?
āBut they helped me grow!ā
How exactly? A like? A reply? A repost? Maybe they put your post in front of more people. Fine. But who actually followed you and stuck around? Other people like you. Give them some credit instead of treating one big account like they handed you a career.
Weāve bought into this bullshit that we need their attention to grow. Small accounts can support each other, share good posts and build an audience together. You donāt need someone with 200,000+ followers to give you permission.
They need us. We donāt need them. We can still have conversations, share our opinions and grow without their involvement. Take away OUR follows, OUR replies and OUR reposts, and whatās left of their big account? Weāre the reason they have an audience in the first place.
Stop worshipping at the altar of big accounts and whoring yourself out for their attention. There are good people here you barely acknowledge because youāre too busy trying to get noticed by someone who barely acknowledges you.