Slight powerlevel but I am the same age as Russ and looking back, 2016/2017 was a significant time for us '91 babies. We were 25 years old, our frontal lobes were finished developing and we were settling into adulthood. Many of us freshly graduated from professional school/grad school, and excited to be landing our first real "grownup" jobs with livable wages and benefits. We had lived away from our parents for a few years by this point, and were now in the process of purchasing our first homes. Our social media newsfeeds were filled with photos of young adults proudly holding the keys in front their new little bungalows. Our old classmates were getting married and creating loving families. Life was moving forward, and fast. It was a scary and uncertain time (and honestly kinda depressing if you were lagging behind in some areas) but now I look back on '16/'17 with nostalgia.
Meanwhile, what was Rusty up to? Sending hundreds of letters and flowers to Taylor Swift and harassing her family. Creating mixtapes for Farrah Abraham. Preparing his SNAZZY look for Ariana. Furiously drafting his lolsuits, books, manifestos, quora questions, fb statuses. Drooling while staring out the window of the Amtrak on his way to Hof's brothel for the nth time that year. Sitting vacantly at his keyboard for months trying to compose "I get you, Taylor Swift". Crying to himself about misrepresentations, disability shaming, bias, and cockblocking.
What has even changed in the last 5 years? It's just more anger, more lawsuits, more celebrity obsessions. Zero accountability or personal growth.
It's just a sad and lonely life path to take and of course he has no one to blame but himself. Also I feel so much better about my own life after reading this thread