XEROPITTURA

Post-Elitism And Social Media

Before social media existed as a public hangout group, the concept of using internet to post everything

you've done in a day was reserved to bloggers and professional influencers, wich by some time, were not

seen as publicly available because of how often those said bloggers would flash luxury items like they

were a somewhat normal occurrence and just another triviality they didn't want to care and talk about.

Nowadays, if you see someone who's posting "fit-checks", skin-care routines and random recommendations

every single day without doing a in-depth study related to the area they're talking about, you're now

basically obligated to aknowledge them as niche, cult, dripped or you're going to be cancelled instantly.

Giving your opinions online is not about showing your point of views anymore. The era of debates has been

over for almost a decade. People have given power to low-iq fucks who believe they can change the whole

world just by wearing replicas of Maison Margiela, posting screenshots of their Nike App with a marathon

of 10 kilometers shown on a map, doing collective tarot readings, telling you they're different because

they're males who understand about fashion, and so on. I could spend my entire day telling you what kinds

of people exhale more "I'm way too insecure about myself" vibes but that whole text would be full of people

I hate and not anything authentic.

Anyways, I've stumbled upon a few situations throughout my life and I thought I should share it with you.

First, doing anything you love and showing it to the world doesn't matter. At all, trust me. People won't

care about it unless you hurt them. And that's what I'm going to talk about on that article.

Second*, if you're thinking about doxxing me, finding my social media or even doing a bad review about my

website anywhere, consider finishing the article so you understand what I am talking about.

I'll give you a chance because I don't hate you, but I want you to change for the better.

Talking about style, when I was a teenager, wearing Gucci meant you or someone close to you had access to

expensive places. Wearing Nikes meant you spent your free time doing any kind of sport. Wearing Hermes

usually meant you liked to be a quiet person who loved to live your life outside of the internet, and

wearing anything with black tones (Balenciaga, YSL Hedi Era, Rick Owens) meant you most probably knew

about what was happening in the underground world before it surfaced to the mainstream, and most people

around you would either be scared of you because of your geniality or they'd try to stick up with you so

they could know about the cool things before anyone else did. Needless to say, it was all beautiful.

I was a person who spent most of my teenage years wearing things that matched my internal narrative, such

as Coach, Guess, Carolina Herrera, Fendi and Givenchy. Usually, People would look at me and often ask me if my

style had anything to do with music or media in general. I always said no, the reason I wore everything

I did was because the specific shirts I had often talked about something that was happening to me at the

time I was wearing it. It's the same thing as being born rich and wearing a Enfants Riches Deprimes shirt

or hoodie, people would've understand you're not that happy about your situation and be compassionate on

your struggles and try to help you out.

If you went back 8 years in time and told me that people on TikTok and Instagram would've been fighting

to death over brands, psychologically abusing people that dressed in a certain way or even telling me

that girls would start to wear Alo Yoga and go to public spaces and film other girls who don't dress all

whore-ish, I'd say you're nuts and tell you to not be too skeptical about a person or two looking your way.

But yeah, shit HAS been happening on social media and it's because of ONE thing: insecurities.

Not taste, not opinion, but insecurities.

For an insecure person who's wearing over 3 different brands on the same outfit, it is unbearable that you

could oppose to anything that seems to give them strength, it means to them that they're losing power over

a supposed "territory" they've marked as safe. Most times it is a designer brand or a way to dress, but it

always masks itself as "a lifestyle" rather than a collection of peculiar choices that aren't strategically

chosen, but rather chosen on a very desperate way to either stand out as strong and fullfilled. Or also

to be seen as an art-loving creative person who knows everything about things you don't, because they really

believe that watching a movie from Iran that is "obscure" or mentioning designers and analogies is smart.

They believe that superiority often comes from culture and external finite and fluid aesthetics (things

that mostly don't last a season or two) because this is what they've been told. They idolized people who

were seen as strong and usually end up doing a low-class cosplay about these very same people. They usually

believe that clothes, money and travel makes them untouchable. But the mask falls off once you threat their

safety, wich is often described as "rudely staring", giving "unecessary" opinions on a brand or situation,

having a more stable and permanent taste that won't change based on your environment or surroundings.

It scares them to know authenticity exists regardless of how much attention you're getting.

So, once the insecure person is threatened, they usually choose to voluntarily harass you until they feel

like the threat has been neutralized. If harrassment alone doesn't work, they'll use fake profiles and at

times, create a mob of people to bully you until you either delete your social media webpages or commit

suicide under the excuse of overwhelming stress; wich is seen as a sign of successful intervention by these

people. And since they're on fake profiles they won't suffer from any serious consequences over time.

The insecure person sees your opinion as a weapon, because they'll act like victims on the first opportunity

they get, and that's the only chance they'll ever have to feel like they matter online and offline.

With that being said, you should understand that social media is overloaded with loud and empty shells that

resembles people, but it doesn't mean they're actually good at anything. They could be lying to you at this

very exact moment and you'd never know if they didn't explicitly tell you about how they operate.

Social media isn't legit anymore and the few real people who exist and want to speak, are now being

silenced by loud hype-beasts, zombies, robots and people longing for attention. Wether it's sexual

or psychological. Don't trust everyone or everything you see online, question everything and everyone.

*Everything I've mentioned in this article applies to everything you can imagine of. People are bad everywhere and there's no right causes online. Everything that's overly appealing is to seek engagement to fullfill emptiness.