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When I was a kid I grew up in a swamp right on the edge of the tundra in Northern Canada. The bugs were worse than almost anyone living in a city could imagine, if you’ve ever seen those mesh mosquito suits, those were a real thing kids had to wear to play outside-
The infuriating thing was you would put on mosquito repellant, but it wouldn’t keep them away, they’d still be swarming around you, landing on you, buzzing around your ears. Not necessarilty biting you, but not staying away
But if you tried to swat at them, they would absolutely SWARM you, the more frantic and worked up you got, the more mosquitoes would cluster all over you and start biting. They’re attracted to body heat, so the more you swing your arms and get angry the more they swarm.
So at some point I realized if i took all the mosquito-inhibiting precautions I could, and then walked through them Daniel-in-the-Lion’s-Den style as though they weren’t there, I could avoid having to deal with a raging swarm attacking me.
Anyways, sometimes you realize shitty people on the internet are like mosquitoes. I’m not saying ignore the problem because you can never ignore mosquitoes really, but be aware if you try to swat at all of them you just end up exhausted and swarmed.
And if your social media presence is nothing but you trying to swat at mosquitoes and getting swarmed by more mosquitoes, you’ve cultivated a pretty unpleasant situation for your friends who can’t deal with being bit by mosquitoes anymore
Sometimes it’s better to just calmly wait for them to fly off and die of starvation somewhere else because they couldn’t find anyone to bite.
