This is also why it's so important to live your life not online all the time. There's a certain amount of performance to personality in online social spaces where one may feel compelled to love or loathe or opine or Take Positions because that's how one Engages a platform. But what if you...didn't?

You can process in silence. In an actual diary. In a group chat with people who know and get you. There is no way for strangers to enforce a change in your heart about art that moves you. For better or worse. But you don't have to throw your unmovedness in the faces of people who are hurt.

I feel like so much of it is that you don’t “leave and go home” in the same way you do in real life, so it’s hard for people to remember normal life division of experience/communities/etc It’s either silo OR you have to be involved in everything