Give us Thought, not Snot, nor Slop
I’m referring to Give us Snot, not Slop from the Grizzly Gazette1 a self-professed “Bearbloggers get together and write posts about Bearblog” kind of outfit.
I’m just gonna come out and say it, “snot” is the last thing I’m looking for on the web, including bearblogs.
As I understood “snot”, it’s a somewhat voyeuristic curiosity of the personal life of our fellow bloggers, and in the example provided, it is indeed the sexual life of someone else we should be asking for more!
I find it ironic that a platform so focused on privacy is the preferred hunting ground for what we used to call “nosy people”.
I mean, c’mon, are you kidding me? Is this a gag!?
If it is indeed true, it speaks of reality-tv hurges, of celebrity magazines articles, of middle of the morning soap operas, of watercooler gossips… I am not looking for any of this here, nor the web.
I hope this is just a loud minority, just like in IRL, that has taken over part of the discourse by the nature of being self referential and active, while the silent majority carries on unaware or slightly amused.
Who knows? Anyway, the internet is a big enough place, there is truly an echo chamber custom fitted for anyone if they are willing to look hard enough for it.
I don’t want to build an echo chamber2, so please share your Thoughts, not your Snot, actually put out there how you see the world, life, relationship, the tipping economy, the use of chemical fertiliser… whatever you feel passionate about it, add more to this world, than only the noise of our existence, the mundane is all but passing, and frankly, boring.
Update: got a reply on the post I linked, somehow they completely missed the point that indeed I understood the wordplay and I still don’t care for that kind of content.
You say that it’s ”embarrassing and disappointing to immediately make it about voyeurism” but them you close your post with ”We need you to purify our timeline with your naughty, dirty posts”, posts like the ones about ”the very descriptive struggles of being an expiring gay man looking for serious dates on the shittiest dating infrastructure humanity has ever seen”.
I dont know man, seems a pretty voyeristic ask to me!
Is that’s what floats your boat, have at it, I’ll go search for something else.