Two years ago I was constantly waking up at night with anxiety attacks. I was also very sensitive to negative interactions on line—and constantly attracting them. I eventually scaled back my content creation and contemplated what sort of voice I wanted to be in the world.

When I rebooted back up, I scaled down quite a bit on the biting anti-SJW commentary, and diversified into interviews with the people I had been criticizing. I don’t know if I would have better audience numbers had I persisted down the snarky pundit route,

but I sleep better, and I’ve been establishing deeper connections with the topics I entreat.

Anyhow, when people try to cancel me, they bring up my snarky work as some sort of gotcha! And while I don’t want to take it down, because it’s not bad as far as snark goes, and it also

shows this Benjamin character as someone who changes over time, I still feel the need to point out that I don’t think contentious content is the way forward. Though it has its place. And I still reserve the right to ridicule what I perceive as ridiculous. /fin