The internet does not disappoint

 Did not know that any tab from Chrome can be turned into an app through Chrome itself. Quite cool. Did that to a bunch of my always-open tabs. 

IG growth is unpredictable. It seems to have nothing to do with other factors like post performance, monthly views & impressions, and shares. That follower count metric in particular just seems to have a mind of its own. Which is frustrating at times, because you don't know what to make of it.

The Chairman of real estate company Confident Group, CJ Roy, died by suicide. I saw it on some big IG page and even before I could click to check the comments I just had a sinking feeling someone at some point would conflate the name of his company with his manner of death to come up with a stupid joke. And the internet did not disappoint - the very first comment was something to that effect. Disappointed in the internet overall, and more so in how inhuman people have become.

I did a piece on Kanye's apology. Again, was not disappointted. Lots of negative comments, lots of bashing, lots of 'who are you' kind of comments posted as gifs. Nothing of substance to counter my argument about how some accountability from celebrities is needed. That is not to say i didn't get any positive comments. 

AG did a piece on how slurs are back in internet slang once again. So many comments saying slurs are all right, no big deal, no one cares if they're called the r-word. Crazy, right?! I mean, are we snowflakes or are people really becoming immune to all this? Maybe both? I don't know.

Also noticed, the trolls and the ones with all the negative stuff to say to you without adding anything good or positive will mostly only resort to commenting on your posts. The ones who appreciate or have something constructive to add their thoughts and share it on their stories. This way, you'll see it and so will their followers. But the trolls don't want even their followers to see their trolling, so they do it surreptitiously in people's comment sections. Funnily, even if they posted it to their stories it wouldn't really matter because most of them have like 10, 20, or max 50 followers, gibberish written in their bios, no profile pic or a very blurred, illegible one, and private accounts. All the classic prerequisites to qualifying as a troll on the internet, especially on instagram.

Might do a post on that later. How about a short series? A troll who's making his way through the internet just waiting to bash people, unhappy with everything, angry, frustrated, alone... and then he finds love. In a pet. A dog or cat who loves him so unconditionally that he gives up being a troll, starts being genuine and sharing his life sincerely, and then starts getting trolled himself, and realizes what that life is like. Haha. 

I'm going to start a series on autistic burnout very soon. More on that later.