Members of Technical Staff The State of X Dot Com, with Roon
Feb 2, 2026
Sofi_a (active X/Twitter poster and chronicler of online culture) and Baelentina_ (engaged X/Twitter participant) riff on how they began posting and pandemic-era habits. They recall Clubhouse/Spaces, San Francisco meetup culture, and shifts after major platform changes. Conversation hits algorithm tweaks, newcomer behavior, the hollowing out of old Twitter norms, and surprising DMs and cross-cultural reactions.
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From Highschool Chatter To Full-Time Posting
- Roon began posting heavily around 2019–2020 after college to vent and replace in-person conversations with online
Viral Memes Built A Poster Identity
- Roon became known for niche memes like "word cell shape rotator" and gained thousands of followers from that era.
- Those memes entered the group's vocabulary but later felt overused and cringe.
Pre‑AI Twitter Felt Intimate And Wild
- The panel remembers pre-ChatGPT Twitter as smaller, more insular, and friendlier for longform inside jokes and networked clusters.
- They argue that rapid AI advances and platform change shifted tone and seriousness across the site.