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   maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 03:12:01 JST maya ❅

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   the “cute winter boots” bullshit isn’t going everywhere because it’s evading algorithmic suppression, it’s going everywhere because adults love the feeling of speaking in codes for all the same reasons fifth graders do (signals inclusion, savviness, has the aesthetic of something that “matters”)

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     maya ❅ (maya@occult.institute)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jan-2025 03:12:02 JST maya ❅

     it’s exhausting how seriously journalists take the claims of users of “algospeak” that it has an algorithmic effect on reach. it’s as though they were to see shit like https://www.reddit.com/r/mallninjashit/comments/iz7b2y/mall_ninja_via_normal_stuff/ and gamely echo the rationale that “quad carry offers the benefits of being armed, but times four.”

     Joachim repeated this.