It's a lot of irony poisoned embitterment that seems to confess it can't find joy in literally anything.

Mostly aimed at an endless carousel of "look at this asshole doing heckin' epic pupper millennial cringeposting on bluesky" but honestly any post at all on Twitter that expresses amusement or even just earnestness seems to draw at least a handful of QRTs dunking on it.

I mean we talk about how there's a certain class of conservative who are furious that people are leaving Twitter because The Cruelty Is The Point and they're not happy even with a near-total victory because they need someone to gloat at over it, and that certainly exists.

But I am fascinated at the sheer number of people for whom The Misery Is The Point, apparently. Better things just aren't possible online. Someone enjoying themselves always needs to be brought down a peg. Never letting anything through the shield of mean high school girl energy you've erected around yourself is the only way forward.

Some of them seem to be looking at it as a sheer numbers game of having to rebuild themselves on another site, and I get that.

But for others all I can figure is years of posting has in fact left them incapable of not being the rudest asshole possible at all times (at least online, though we seem to be losing that distinction culturally) and this fury at Bluesky people mostly enjoying themselves is because they perceive an end to being able to dunk without consequences.

It sort of feels like it's still The Cruelty Is The Point, in a way, but a variation where the cruelty is also directed at themselves in addition to everybody else.

Hence why I termed these cases as The Misery Is The Point.

Yeah, makes sense.

Because that is the part that always gets me. Most these dunk posts these kinds of people make are undefended, I think because the tweet authors know they're indefensible. Other people will rightly point out, sure, that dude's humor is tedious, but at least the viral posts on Bluesky don't double as klan rallies and... crickets, usually.

Maybe a non-sequiteur drive by insult to enforce how little OP cares for the first few replies.

Which suggests either cynical engagement farming, which, again is possible, or there really is nothing more than a sense of emptiness behind the post.

Toxic Christianity in the US is fueled by a Calvinist work ethic that’s deeply suspicious of unearned happiness. This is one reason why american media by and for Christians gargles rocksalt, it has to have a purpose beyond entertainment to be halal

It’s why Bibleman is what happens when you make Kamen Rider into a preachy youth pastor.

And it’s why you have doomers scoffing at the idea of finding joy serendipitously in your Bluesky mentions.

as someone who's been exposed to a good amount of american christian media, I can attest this is in fact the truth. Nine times out of ten, whatever they make seems to have the idea of being entertaining second and preaching first.

i was looking at a certain thread following this exact script yesterday and it was so baffling

particularly the prevalence of the "at least they're not literal nazis" response, which is such a wet noodle of a response imo because man. maybe i'm just not irony poisoned enough to Get It, but there is just no universe in which this remotely resembles a "lesser of two evils" scenario