The viral hero of doing absolutely nothing

For the recovering people-pleaser, it's time to master the silent art of Sherlocking entitled near and not-so-dear ones.

- NISHA SUSAN

Last week my friend Leena and I had that aging moment we, as millennials, have had over and over again since we were 25. We were talking about a tech platform that millions of younger people are on but we have no energy to be on—Discord, this time.

Millennials have had builtin obsolescence chasing our heels since our prefrontal cortexes were still in the jelly stage. We sighed and exchanged the five facts we knew about Discord and then moved on. Many hours later, I remembered that I have a new short story coming out soon, parts of which has action set on this particular platform. If ever there was a sign that the prefrontal and the rest of my cortex was lost in fog! Leena was unfazed though. As I said, as millennials, our response to new platforms is: been there, deleted that.

This being the case, I will not hold it against you if you say “what is a Threads?” It is, for the record, a Meta platform that everyone who was on Instagram was plugged into by default in 2023. Today, it is a kind of low-fat, low-sugar version of Twitter, full of people who are grateful that it is not Twitter, missing the old, highly functional, chronological timeline of Twitter but not enough to go back to Twitter. On Threads, I skulk and enjoy the local news from my new hometown and the occasional hijinks that might come my way. And in a clear indication of the universe serving those who want low-fat, low-sugar hijinks, last week brought us the phenomena called Sherlocked.