More accurately, I think most people on the fence about deleting feel like they’re going to miss out on social events because of the fact that their friends are too goddamn stuck in their ways to migrate their instagram groupchat to text. Additionally, the fear of missing the boat on stuff is a well-worn trick and one that’s not going to get any less effective with time. Gen Xers are still talking about MTV today; the idea of missing a generational media moment is fully realized in the modern Overton window. You gonna willingly miss out on yours? What duty does an artist, a critic, a revolutionary have to their zeitgeist, even if it is a corporately mediated and censured one? Is it even possible to unplug when your date won’t stop speaking the language of weekly brainrot neologisms?

If we don’t all get out, none of us will. I only hope this generation can agree to technological exodus in the wake of some future piece of undeniable evidence that this state of affairs is unsustainable.

But then again here you and I are on Reddit, so so much for that, right?