- Someone has spoken negatively about stans. Twitter is on fire. Tumblr watches on with vague dispassion, and Reddit uses the flames to fuel its superiority complex. Tiktok is being 2013 Tumblr again. You are on several of these platforms. How do you react? Something inside you splits, and it may never become whole again.
- Keemstar makes another tweet about Minecraft Monday season two. He says it’s coming out soon, real soon. You check the date of the tweet. It was made 6 months ago. You check again. It’s been a year. ‘It’s coming out soon’, Keemstar promises you. How did he get in your house? ‘It’s coming out real soon’.
- Eret’s betrayal is referenced in the plot again. ‘It was never meant to be’. People online are asking about the significance of it. ‘It’s from the Final Control Room’, you tell them. They don’t know what the Final Control Room is. They must have started watching recently, you think. ‘No,’ they say, ‘I’ve been watching for months’. Was it really months ago? You check the vods. Did it ever happen at all?
- Technoblade uploads. For a moment, the world stands still. Everything else slows to a halt, vanishes into the peripheral. You watch the video. Everyone watches the video. It was a good video. Maybe you’ll get another one before the month’s end, but don’t get your hopes up. The human spirit is fragile, after all.
- You’re busy for a few days, and can’t catch up on the new content. ‘It was only a few days,’ you think. You watch a stream you missed. Now there are two more. You watch another stream. Four new ones are up by the time you finish. How do they keep multiplying? It was only a few days. There are two new nations, now, and they’re having another festival. It was only a few days.
- You see that people are talking about the difficulties faced by women in the industry, and taking steps to address the unequal representation. ‘Good’, you think. ‘Maybe things will start to change’. A male streamer does something, and people forget. The conversation dies. It’s okay, the same thing will happen again next month. It always does. It never starts to change.
- Something strange is trending on twitter, just above the most recent international disaster. It’s mcyt. You ignore it. An hour passes, and you check again. Something new is trending, just above a systemic failure of our system. It’s mcyt again. You ignore it. The Twitter Description Person tries to explain it, but they sound tired. One day, they will snap. One day, you think you will too.
- Skeppy and BBH say they’re going to meet up this month. They say they’ll vlog it. You don’t quite believe them - promises of a vlog dredges up deep trauma within you, touches the darkest recesses of your mind that you have so carefully hidden away. Still, you dare to hope. The month passes. Skeppy and BBH say they’re going to meet up this month.
- Wilbur is in Phil’s chat, again. You know what’s coming, but still can’t properly prepare yourself for the lore he decides to spin. ‘It’s not canon’, you hear people cry. ‘Wilbur isn’t the main writer anymore, it’s not canon’. ‘It’s a collaborative project,’ the damned respond. ‘It’s all canon’.
- A new celebrity expresses interest in the SMP. This isn’t right. These streamers aren’t celebrities, they’re just gamers. You see they have hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. ‘They’re just gamers,’ you cry in vain. ‘They can’t be mainstream. They’re only gamers.’
- You see an a6d video in your recommended. You didn’t know he still did those. You refresh your feed and it disappears. Good. You weren’t supposed to see that.