I would nominate Paul, not just as content creator, but as a proto-influencer-grifter.

He collected charity for Jerusalem from the Macedonians & used it to bankroll collection ops in Corinth. There’s no record of delivery. Instead, he’s “arrested”, ends up in Rome, “appealing his case to Caesar.”

I'll take Dec 2nd

They are experiencing an internal miscommunication.

Oh, they’re doing something.

If the ramen isn’t holding you over, you can always bite your nails.

Don’t stop now. My wife is loving the commentary.

I always thought Matthew 23 does a good job rendering Yeshua’s issues with the self-righteous and fakers.

I guess you opted for the lame-assed response where you double-down on the original claim with this gem:

“It kinda feels like asking whether the Xbox was popular”

Well shit. This should be a slam dunk for you!

Why not ask your favorite AI tool to help you do some deep research?

Forget his (and your) posture and rhetoric jockeying for a second.

Don’t you care to find out if it is truly a phenomenon?

You suggested this is wildly under-discussed. What if it actually is?

Do you really want to split these dumb hairs, or do you want to substantiate your point?

I don’t think it’s weird to ask if the thing you’re gesturing at is actually a real phenomenon.

People do often play a handful of personal anecdotes over and over in their heads.

Are people STILL talking this way? If no, what’s changed?

If this is a real phenomenon, it’s worth substantiating it.

I would love to argue this with you so I can better understand the basis where that sliver of optimism is rooted.

FYI, I’m politically homeless, grew up in conservative Christian family and I discuss religion and politics with family regularly.

I’m open to discuss here or DM if you prefer.

Let them eat cake implies an obliviousness to suffering and disconnect from reality.

Promise the future loud enough, and people will stop asking what you’re taking from them today.

My wife says it’s birth control on wheels, so I guess women planning to have families are just taking precautions.

Ratio-baiting is a form of wrong-play that actually benefits social media corps.

How might one cultivate cultural disdain & economic disincentive for influencers with personal brands in the first place?

How do you encourage others to play the game wrong to break the "follower" economy and culture?

It’s made up to troll you. Block and move on.

I love the dialectical tension this post creates.

I love symbolic systems and formalism but I also think we need people anchored in and arguing that precision programming is entirely unnecessary.

The value isn’t in their position as much as the discussion/synthesis that results from the gradient.