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            1. thinking back to this tweet as I read medium.com/@leighalexander/the-new-intimacy-economy-51c87dc4a4d6 on performing intimacy for Internet money @lichlike/657271108790452224
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          1. …in reply to @v21
            the other week, as ⭐️s became ❤️s, and I felt this desire to just... have an opinion and talk with friends, not a Hot Take
        1. …in reply to @v21
          that's the joke, right? "Hot Take" is lampshading the way we can't simply have an opinion, but have to optimize selling & packaging it
      1. …in reply to @v21
        (and the irony of carefully phrasing that tweet was not lost on me)
    1. …in reply to @v21
      anyway, this isn't new: radio is all basically all about parasocial relationships (that and pop music, which is, uh, also all about them)
  1. …in reply to @v21
    but now that everyone is famous for 15 people, everyone is practising their radio voice. thank fuck for backchannels and irl.