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I remember being in my mid teens and while in a ‘heated’ argument about what record by ehstever band was better with a record store employee who was in his 30s but had similar taste and we to this day send new bands to each other and while we’re both acting super passionate over like…whether the best Discharge album was Why or Hear Nothing he stopped and asked “you’re having fun doing this right? Just gotta make sure.” I said “oh absolutely” and he said “good, just making sure, I really enjoy arguing about music with people that like music cause it’s a good discussion and a fun way to banter about it” and I feel that’s usually how to go about things. I try to avoid anime stuff cause I like 5 animes. Sometimes I’ll post that list as The Only Good Ones. But for shit I enjoy or find interesting it can be fun to get into the weeds and pretend you care more than you really do.
There’s a tendency online to assume every post someone makes is made like they would die to defend it. Whereas everyone posting assumes they won’t be taken more seriously than they mean to be. I’m really sarcastic and tend to say absolutely obvious bullshit as a joke irl and deliver it deadpan as fuck, which can sometimes lead to at work if someone’s in the can and someone else asks where they’re at and I say ‘up on the roof peeling oranges’ it takes a couple seconds for the tone and word dissonance to hit. Generally it’s pretty quickly figured out that I might be doing a bit and that’s worth considering when I speak but even being very dry IRL, it hits home although sometimes a bit later than delivery. It’s really hard to get that kind of laugh from a mass broadcast in text. I try my best by wording things to indicate such but reading comprehension of your audience isn’t guaranteed either. It can be a bummer.
