It’s a tragic weekend over at Bluesky, the place among the best accounts has disappeared — though we are able to nonetheless hope for its resurrection.
Generally known as The Louvre of Bluesky, the account in query struck worry into the hearts of unhealthy posters all over the place. Whereas it posted commentary and jokes of its personal, its most brutally humorous and haunting work got here within the type of screenshots capturing rogue Bluesky posts in all their unhinged glory.
It’s arduous to jot down a correct appreciation now that the Louvre has vanished, and it’s actually unimaginable to create a full taxonomy of the all sorts of poster’s illness it managed to seize within the wild. Maybe the defining attribute of posts memorialized within the Louvre of Bluesky — past the easy failure to get a joke — was a scolding tone, together with a way of absolute outrage that somebody, someplace may be having enjoyable on the web.
Perhaps I’m projecting an excessive amount of onto a screenshot-filled nameless social media account, however to me, it at all times felt like the precise reverse of the tedious, advert nauseum complaints that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber. This wasn’t somebody who’d spent a couple of minutes on the location simply to verify their suspicions and write the umpteenth model of the identical op-ed. Whether or not they liked Bluesky or hated it, whoever operated the account clearly knew the location’s darkest corners; they understood what absolute weirdos its customers might be.
The account additionally felt, at instances, like a warning — that any of us, in a second of weak point, may put up one thing clueless or cringe. Simply understanding the Louvre of Bluesky was on the market was sufficient to scare me (not usually sufficient, I’m positive) into deleting a few dumb or apparent replies.
So the place has the Louvre of Bluesky gone? In a put up on Patreon, the account’s creator stated it will be taken down “temporarily” because of “a loser and a coward” emailing their bosses and their spouse’s bosses. They added that they’re “not sure if the account will stay closed.”
It’s not a lot to go on. I can solely hope that like the actual museum, the Louvre of Bluesky will have the ability to reopen quickly. However even when it doesn’t, its spirit will proceed haunting all of us who bear in mind we’re only a few keystrokes away from being immortalized for a nasty put up.
