trauma in the group chat

Bonjour,

When people ask what I do for work, I’m just gonna send them this.

The latest Dumb Bitch Hour can be watched here. Mike from Rainbow was on and it was fun.

ily,

Writer: Natasha 
Editor: Deana

Polygon PoS flipped Solana this week for most active USDC sending addresses.

It’s been a week of internet garbage, with Morning Routine Guy, the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4o unleashing Studio Ghibli to the masses, and the slop vs. taste discourse all coming in hot. This was the feeling all week.

I did think, I should just get off this app, but then I had to come to terms with….

For me, the story of the week was when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was added to a Signal group chat with key Trump advisors, where they were discussing plans for a forthcoming attack on Yemen. Truly wild stuff!

Now, a different newsletter might break down the geopolitical ramifications of this string of emojis 👊💧🔥 being used to represent a job done for an airstrike that killed 53 people, but this is no such newsletter. This story triggered me in two ways:

First, group chat trauma.

As a deeply paranoid Leo, I think about people crashing out in a group chat on a daily basis.

Here are just a few to ponder:

• Talking shit about someone and accidentally texting the person you were talking shit about.

• Sending a sext to the family gc

• Being annoying, being ghosted, or just simply being perceived in the gc

• Sending a screenshot of a text from the group chat to the gc

For example, sometimes things are said in the gc and you don’t even remember what they were.

Second, I fear that I am the JD Vance of the gc.

And by fear it, I mean, I know it.

Is there something comforting about the fact that the stars are just like us?