That’s What She Said…
There are a few people near the top of my pet peeve list. Somewhere near the top are those that LOVE to virtue signal on social media…exclusively using someone else’s material. Have you ever heard the “That’s what she said” jokes? That’s what this is, only it isn’t a joke.
If your modus operandi is the reposting of a meme with “This…” or if you repost article after article with “I can’t even” or you repost someone else’s video clips with “100%” in an attempt to tell everyone else how to live while providing no original thought or content…I will happily scroll by and not pay a bit of attention to you, your beliefs, or anything else you post.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a good meme. I watch videos online all the time. And we all get our news digitally nowadays. I’m not hating on any of those. But if you sit around all day, reposting other people’s shit with no thought and no input from you, you are less than useless. Seriously, STFU.
If all you do is repost stuff from Greta von Angry-Girl about the climate with the intent of shaming other people, but you only add “She’s my hero”, I will definitely not read the article.
If all you do is repost stuff from your favorite news source with “Everyone needs to read this”, I am definitely not clicking that link.
If you consistently repost memes from someone else about your political view but never add anything but the “You know where I stand” tagline, you’re just being lazy, and I care even less about your opinion.
If you have no original thought and expect everyone to just listen to you because you repeat what someone else says, you are really fooling yourself.
On the other hand, if you’re the meme poster that habitually dumps funny stuff all day, please continue what you are doing. Everyone needs some levity in this world. If you occasionally repost something in the media that you could not say better yourself, I get it. Do that. If there is a sports highlight that blows your mind, share it. That’s not the point.
But if you are repeatedly browbeating everyone solely using someone else’s information about your personal crusade, then you don’t really have a crusade. You have someone else’s crusade. It gets old. Beyond annoying, it is probably counterproductive. But mostly, it’s lazy and horribly unoriginal.
Please, add something to the conversation. Make YOUR point. Add YOUR point of view. Add YOUR analysis. Tell people WHY something is important to you or should be to them.
Because if you don’t…your entire belief system is just one big “That’s what she said.”
And who wants to be known for that?