I’ve been MIA from these threads for weeks. My country’s capital was blockaded and occupied by a bunch of anti-vaxxer “truckers” for 22 days, as were several of our international border crossings. At one border crossing blockade, a cache of weapons and body armour were discovered, as well as a plot to murder police officers. Our Prime Minister invoked the never-before-used Emergencies Act. Everyone has been in disbelief.
Just as the truckers were cleared out, it became clear that Russia was about to invade Ukraine, and now I’m in a whole new world of absorption and distress at the news, and what is happening on our planet. I’m looking for ways to help, and keep myself informed, while also trying to preserve my mental health and not doomscroll all day.
Seeing her just carry on with her ridiculous content routines while being gone from the threads has just cemented for me how utterly pointless she is. Influencer culture as a whole is making me increasingly sick, but Mrs Hinch should be held up as a prime fucking example. The token post about Ukraine at the same time as SS is incredibly transparent - clearly Gleam told her she’d better say something, and then she immediately reverted back to her “me me me mine mine mine look at meeeee look at what I have me me me” bullshit.
Why can’t these assholes just take a fucking break from social media? Like just lay off your planned content and your ads and your bragging about your material possessions while NICU babies are being hidden in a basement bomb shelter in Kyiv? Oh right. Because you don’t give a shit about anything but the money. And you fear that taking a break from social media, or even a break from your schedule will make you “irrelevant,” and you’ll be done.
It’s obscene.