Celebrity Status

May 07, 2026 ·

The forum I started over on Reddit a couple of weeks ago now has tens of thousands of visitors and hundreds of posters. I don't know how to feel about that. Feels the same I guess. I was lucky enough to go viral in my teens many times over via music making, so online virality doesn't mean that much to me I feel like. I frontran Instagram-brain, though maybe it could be said I missed out on certain aspects of it by being super early; because people now set up merch shops and it all seems much more sophisticated compared to people just doing things in their bedrooms for fun like when the internet was new. It's been extremely civil and warm so far, so still very fun, the Reddit thing.

I guess if it keeps going I can share what community it is and not keep it private anymore. Another thing I've noticed spending time on the internet is that privacy and anonymity are not that well understood. In a lot of social circles privacy, which I consider closely defined to freedom, is considered suspect by default. There's probably some truth to it some of the time, but the expectation that all privacy by its very nature is criminal is extremely troubling to me. The other similar popular misconception is that all anonymity is bad, and that crypto as an industry is anonymous; whereas in truth it's mostly pseudonymous and actually much more transparent than traditional finance infrastructure. In any case, if my Reddit community keeps growing I can doxx it. I don't do anything online that would embarrass me; I'm just pro-privacy.

Made breakfast tacos this morning. They were great.