Lil Tay

We ignore the bedbugs that gnaw us as we sleep, and swat the flies that wake us up.

Don’t read this one: I started this article in 2018 and decided to leave it alone because I couldn’t figure out what the hell my point was. Lil Tay is either a hilarious post modern joke or a gravely endangered member of a family of lunatics. In either case, she has 2M Instagram followers, or somebody does…

What a great illustration that the principle “There is nothing beyond the text” applies to Instagram content as well.

Comeback with me to 2018:

Lil Tay cancelled her social media accounts, and my prayers are with her and her family. She seems like a nice little person and I hope the fact that her brother turned her into a YouTube star doesn’t ruin her summer.

Brother Tay will have to take a certain amount of punishment for his actions, but none of this makes him a bad person. I’m not going to use these people’s real names because I suspect they’d rather be left alone, so I’ll just call the Tay family Lil Tay, Brother Tay and Mama Tay respectively. I’ve only seen a brief TMZ style report on this story, but I think I understand what happened.

15 year old boys with 9 year old sisters share common malady: The impossible challenge of making their 15 year old interests accessible to a nine year old girl.

You might think that in 2018 this would be slightly easier because 9 year olds spend their days hypnotized…