On the platforms with baked-in algorithms, I avoid naming two countries: IS and RU. The naming of these two places brings out the robot-buddies, and they are decidedly unpleasant but in two different ways.

Saying one name brings out bots who will threaten and bully me in a way that is pro-that-country. Saying the other name brings out bots who threaten and bully me in a way that is anti-that-country. 🤔 It’s definitely a Venn diagram because there is overlap in the types of things they say - like they love telling me I deserve to be assaulted for expressing anti-one or pro-the-other sentiment.

Anyway, I’ll let you connect the dots as to which is which in this narrative. KYHOAS

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And remember kids, every good plot needs a villain.

You can spell them out here 👊

I almost did, but I’ve been burned too many times 🤣

Seriously though this one time I made a video where I was encouraging people to download alternative/nonwestern social medias, and I mentioned China, UAE, Jordan, Russia, and later I took that video down because the comments were so out of control in regards to anti-Russia sentiment that I was like: this is crazy specific. And yet all the commenters were no-followers/no-videos accounts with an Ukraine flag in bio. Nahh. I’m not gonna be part of that narrative. I been reading JFK files. I know what’s up. Lol.