On June 20, I finally saw it in my feed. Two posts from two well-known writers popped up in my feed. They were basically the same:
Is this what it’s come to on Medium? Is this what I’ve been “missing” in the past 3 weeks or so since I’ve been gone?
Shit.
This isn’t a good sign. Maybe I was right to check out for a while. But maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this is just in the zeitgeist. Maybe Holiday and Faroux were just tapped into that jetstream of inspiration. Maybe The Mission was launching (pun fully intended) a prompt for famous internet people to pen articles on the same title — except I was unable to find it (which isn’t saying much, I’ll grant you).
Or maybe originality — or at least a frail attempt at it — doesn’t mean anything anymore. Maybe no one will read this. Check that — no one will read this.
Anyway, I was just thinking out loud. You can go back to whatever it was you were doing now.