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there's a kind of literacy that doesn't get talked about much, and it's something like running a "how will this be misinterpreted negatively" filter over your writing while you do it. has to be a more succinct way of putting this. antagonist literacy? defensive literacy? 🤔
I think I'll go with "redteam literacy", or "redteaming", named after military practice https://t.co/xl4n3RpVNR
from time to time I see people with poor redteam literacy get absolutely crushed by saying things that sound fine to them, but are interpreted horribly by others at the most extreme scales of course you cannot stop people from deliberately misinterpreting you in a hostile way,
but if you're sensitive and observant you can notice that there's a huge disparity in outcomes if you've followed me & a bunch of my mutuals for a couple of years or so, you'll notice that some of my friends get a lot more viral backlash than me, even at say 5-10k follower count
sometimes they're being deliberately provocative, but if we filter those instances out, I think there's still a significant disparity. i'm basically the guy amongst my friends who gets into "trouble" least, despite often having the largest reach/scale the reason is I redteam me
a thing I've recurringly noticed is that charismatic podcasters and vloggers are especially susceptible to getting dragged on twitter https://t.co/W8haGD8ibd
so there's this phenomenon where podcasters and vloggers etc come along just tweet their thoughts on twitter in their natural cadence, expecting to reach their fans who know them and their voice, but then they get mercilessly dragged by the plaintext tactical assault militia
@forthrighter i would write out whatever the message is first, and then wherever there are opportunities for easy dunks, space them out, add nuance, context https://t.co/t5hzNDLkpl
some casual reminders on how to avoid being main character'd, if you wish to avoid it 1. avoid putting your contentious thought in the first tweet 2. separate the contentious thought itself across two tweets IMO this will reduce the severity by about 80%
@visakanv it is funny how those who get main character'd often actively facilitated that by tweeting the low/no context hot take up front, like using "let's have sex" as the opener on a first date. Context and ordering do kind of matter don't they
@visakanv there's nothing better to kick off a flamewar than an implicit broad lumping ("All men like to ...") extra bonus it brings out all the nitpickers, the "well actuallys", and my personal favorites, the "to be fairs" and the "can we please stops" https://t.co/kaODSwrO6t
The "can we please stop" genre of tweet. Tweeter knows that the collective We cannot, and will not. Often tweeted by either people who are muddling through, or about situations, including cultural ones, that are muddles we wish we could solve. https://t.co/7lzknIldYP
