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Cake day: April 22nd, 2023

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  • I totally understand. I dont think you’re a bad person for toying around with the idea if it’s hurting them.

    I’ve thought about doing the same thing to my mom’s phone on her ReVanced app and then just go "huh, I guess YouTube broke something for everyone in ReVanced again. Sorry! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ " since I’m the one that sets it all up for her and researches and fixes it when it breaks. She has super bad untreated ADHD and she gets sucked into them super easily and ends up spending tons of time watching and getting worked up about nonsense, harmful, ‘conspiracy theory’ garbage made to target, upset, manipulate, and take advantage of people like her… It’s concerning me. It’s wrong.

    But it also feels wrong to lie to her and make changes to her phone without her consent, ya know? I don’t know…

    I’m curious to know if you end up doing it, and if so, how it goes.

    *Edited to add: oh god I didn’t realize how long and rambly this comment ended up until after I posted it WHOOPS! 😅 My apologies. I guess if any community will understand, it’s this one, ha!





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    22 days ago

    I really, really, sincerely doubt it. The only people I’ve met who’ve said they’re those things are very much not those things. (Honestly, they’re usually awesome.) The people I’ve met who one could argue are those things? They don’t think they are, they think they’re hot shit and everyone else is the problem.

    Also, I’ve seen you around for a while, and you just don’t seem like it! You seem cool, thoughtful, intelligent, and interesting to talk to. I genuinely mean it.

    But, I totally get and understand the feeling. I do the same thing, unfortunately. Our brains tell ourselves some silly shit in order to try to cope with our fucked up situations, and it often starts in childhood. So it’s some poor little kid just doing their best to make sense of things in there, ya know? They deserve kindness.

    I’d appreciate it if you’d do what you can to try to be more kind and understanding to my cool acquaintance Mac. Mac deserves that. :) <3

    (Would you believe that this is the short version of what all I wanted to say to you? Ha! My genuine apologies to you if it’s obnoxious or unwanted!)