Twitter inflicts suffering on its users and Tumblr lets its users inflict suffering on each other and that’s the major difference between the two.

It’s weird succeeding under capitalism largely through an accident of fate and timing because people assume you’re on board with capitalism and say the wildest things to you. “They don’t have a real job.” “Wait what’s a ‘real job’?” “Well, you know, you have a real job.” My brother in Christ I divide my time between yelling at sand, begging people to communicate, and spinning in circles in my spinny chair while pretending to listen to people boast about what they successfully bullied sand into doing. And I do it all in my pajamas.

That people have found a way to make millions of dollars off this and pass a tiny fraction of that on to me is a frankly funny as fuck indictment of our economy.

Like that’s not to say I don’t work hard or that my job doesn’t exhaust me to my core or that I don’t suffer adverse health impacts from the stresses of existing under capitalism or anything–don’t @ me with your “cushy” bullshit–but to suggest that my job may somehow be more respectable than another job is just a really fucking funny thing to say.