>>717982031Ah, the thread. Not just any thread, mind you, but this thread—the one that seems to sprawl outward like an oil slick in the shallow end of the internet, glistening, expanding, but never actually going anywhere. The kind of place where productivity comes to die not with a bang but with a slow, apologetic whimper. A thread where each keystroke is less about communication and more about the slow ritualistic act of burying our collective potential under layers of ironic detachment. You call it a black pit of the void, but really, isn’t that just a poetic way of saying “the world’s most aggressively beige waiting room,” where time doesn’t stop, it just sits in the corner checking its watch and sighing?
Because yes, in one sense, this is the thread where we contribute absolutely nothing to society—no innovation, no noble cause, not even the cathartic relief of a good meme executed at the right moment. But in another, truer sense, it’s so much more than that. It’s a monument to our capacity for indulgent pointlessness, an accidental art installation that asks: “What if entropy had a group chat?” And, as with all things human, it’s a paradox. The very act of labeling it useless gives it purpose, because now it means something—it’s a testament to wasted time, to mutually assured distraction.
And so here we sit, typing, scrolling, reading, contributing our little data packets of pure existential lint to the great cosmic dryer vent, knowing full well it all adds up to less than nothing, but still unable to stop. In this way, the thread transcends mere nothingness—it becomes the negative space in which actual thought might have happened, but didn’t, and will never have the chance to.
