The creature

To be...or not to be...

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This is not one I’m planning on putting in the merch store at the moment (unless you ask me to, just leave a comment and let me know what you’d like it on).

Still, I just wrote an article about the benefits and drawbacks of being a reply guy that used this image as inspiration. I felt like I wanted to give a bit more additional commentary on this image specifically.

I called it The Creature. because that’s what social media drives people to become. Stare into the darkness too long and the darkness stares back at you.

Do you want to be sucked into the abyss, or don’t you? That’s really the question.

I have seen people who were previously normal be driven insane on Twitter.

They got sucked into the algorithm and it changed everything about who they were, how they saw themselves, and how they interacted with everyone around them.

They become shells of themselves.

They become addicted to anger.

Their physical appearance deteriorates.

They become a creature, leaving their humanity behind.

Most of the time, people are completely unaware that this is happening until the creature has already emerged, and then it might seem too late.

But it’s never too late. There’s always a choice. Every moment of every day is a chance to make a new choice.

You can get up and walk out of the abyss…but no one can do it for you.

You have to choose to let the creature go and rejoin the land of the living.

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