Sometimes I think back on all the pretty and handsome social media famous faces I’ve met and ‘met’ and I am reminded that holding a conversation and being interesting have nothing to do with any of that. Even now, when some of them talk woke it’s kinda shallow tbqh. I dunno.

I think about that guy who wrote that instead of sophisticated (up on news, pop culture, trends, good at dinner parties) he’d rather his kids be interesting (might have one thing they key in on, but they do it well, if maybe through a bit of awkwardness). Something like that.

Anyway. Those pretty faces and pretty bodies and their curated lives and follower counts really are sophisticated at best. Because they speak in meme, in idiom, in sophisticated quotes of actually interesting people. And this isn’t a matter of income, education, or otherwise.

Rather, it’s a commonality; I use 80-20 as a reference point but I don’t know the number more than it’s just quite common. Often sophisticated. Not often interesting. Yes, good looking, conventionally, often hyperbolically so. Often not much more than that.

I say this because sometimes it’s hard to avoid a kind of celebrity thinking about them, a kind of unachievable-ness. And I’ve been in the same texts, same rooms, same parties, same [redacted] as a lot of them. Yet I haven’t missed any of those things because... it was boring.