Memes

I think this kerfuffle boils down to the difference between social media norms in the US/English-primary-spoken world and social media norms in Eurasia. I feel like if we were to hop on Yandex, or FB in Vietnam, a lot of these 'botty' posts may seem more normalish.🧵

Software Engineer @ Cadence Design Systems. B4: Stanford EE / Illinois ECE

It's like Kabuki Theater, what one culture finds inauthentic, others find earnest. Add onto this: if you're ESL, pithy/high-SNR casting in english may be hard if you don't have killer vocab, so you may default to simple english, posting selfies, etc. Show don't tell.

trying to do "show don't tell" fails miserably if your posts are nothing but feel good selfies and motivational quotes here because that's what all the bots do here

if you're ESL and that's what you're doing i rec just trying to shitpost

bad vocab shitposts are INCREDIBLY funny

study ESL flirting that goes hard