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“Weird.”
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with that word.
Growing up, half my friends called me weird like it was a put-down. The other half wore it like a badge. I had one foot in with the mainstream crowd, the other with the new wavers and skaters — the ones who embraced their weirdom, turned it into art. For some, “weird” meant off. For others, it meant original.
Recently, one of those old mainstreamers threw it at me again. In a group chat, he misread something I said and replied with: “your weird life up north.” I took a breath, steered myself away from a harsh reply. Because here’s the context: at that exact moment, he was drinking alone, babysitting his ex-girlfriend’s dogs, making vile, racist comments about his Indian clients who dared to negotiate his overinflated home improvement prices.
This is a guy who drank himself out of two relationships, can’t go 60 seconds without talking about him or his “awesome kids,” had his wife do his books because he coasted through high school, he's buried in credit card debt and living in the exact part of town we used to laugh at — and sings like a hammered karaoke fail during Zoom calls.
I find that weird.
So when grafician calls palim “weird,” I can’t help but laugh — the same kind of laugh I have when people who lack self-awareness try to sound sharp. Because weird is deeply subjective. Personally, I find palim to be pleasantly avant-garde — like someone you’d meet at an art opening in SoHo, someone who makes you think.
And grafician? I find him weird. The kind of weird that’s strange and hollow. A narcissistic blowhard who hasn’t posted a single piece of professional work on QBN, yet somehow finds the time to post daily rants about America, MAGA, and Donald Trump — like a guy living rent-free in a country he doesn’t even inhabit. He leans on AI for insight, cosplays as a geopolitical analyst, and pretends to know everything about everything.
That’s not bold. That’s not artistic. That’s just fucking strange.
And I've been holding onto something for a long time now...
Several years ago I received two emails from an anonymous person. It said that I was a second-rate marketer in broken English. It was short and the person said "it was only time until I get your phone number". The email was from MrMister.
The broken english, the lack of creative email name, the fact that they had to work to find my information and that they signed off with "someone you pissed off" points my radar at a QBN user.
This I find unacceptable. Whoever did that should be kicked off the platform. And whoever did it should never have the balls to call anyone else weird for the rest of their weird life.