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I did some digging to illustrate what I mean about Contra's weird relationship with the internet. By "yes-men" I mean the sorts of people posts like these are supposed to speak to:
It's obviously just fishing for compliments, but also assuaging a real insecurity over not actually being a woman, which is not something hornyposting fans will solve.
That's the general trend with these, there's this constant impulse to occupy a social circle where Contra is at the top, never at risk of being ignored or not being special, even though it's totally manufactured and all the "yaaaas sis
"replies to every tweet are empty platitudes.It's interesting to me that people like this make videos telling people how to live or better the world, when they're constantly revealing a nihilistic view of the world where everything is inherently bad and this means they don't have any responsibility to themselves or other people. It feels like a cycle with narcissists of this kind, you see them climb to the top of whatever social ladder to loudly proclaim they'll make everything better for everyone, then when they don't get the relief from the depression and self-doubt that drives them they crash and blurt out some diatribe about how none of this is worth it and hide until they feel the itch to prove themselves superior again.
some more examples:
Lindsay Ellis, who recently wrote that she regrets every time she stood up for someone else. She's not trans but also ties her self-worth to her status among internet randos to the point she implodes and declares helping people isn't worth it.
more fishing for compliments. For context Contra made a video blaming society for causing the paranoia and anxiety he had over entering lesbian spaces and basically forcing him to suck dicks for two years, which is just more pointing the finger at everyone else.
sarcastically acknowledging the problem, which is another way of childishly lashing out at criticism.
more "everything bad in my life is out of my hands" from a person who could just take responsibility and stop trying to gain approval from strangers on the internet, but won't.
I think the pattern should be obvious at this point, they're constantly getting worked up and then tweeting that you should just accept that everyone is awful and life is misery. The idea that you should just log off and stop being so terminally online that it ruins your mental health never occurs to them because forming normal social bonds with normal people means accepting that people don't just want to listen to you talk about yourself all the time.
case in point.
Bonus screenshot:
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