Searching For A Save Point (Continued...): DELETE YOURSELF (read description)

I'm going to give context I think is important hear as the type of people to use INPROCESS pertaining to why I'm nuking an account I've had since 2008 as someone who's spent the last 5 years fully dedicated to preserving digital legacy but personal why isn't as important as awareness of what's exactly happening.

If you aren't aware of the updates to TWITTER/X Terms of Service that take effect on January 15th 2026, specifically in relation to your data, I highly recommend researching them asap in your preferred search engine.

Important note - It takes a few days after requesting a downloadable version of all your data for twitter/x to make it available to you, so if you decide to go this route please don't delay on this step.

+++FUTURE DUTCH HERE, I TYPED THIS UP AND TRIED TO POST IT LAST WEEK, BUT IN PROCESS HAD A BUG THAT PREVENTED ME FROM MINTING ANYTHING. Sorry for the last minute upload for those who were not aware about the 15th and want to take action++++

TDLR - I have requested my Data from twitter/x, so I can completely wipe all 50k tweets (images, videos, thoughts, replies) from 2008-Present.

While the simplest solution would be to completely deactivate our accounts. The reality is our twitter accounts are used for verification/validity of so many other things but more important, protecting your self have an increasing greater chance at harming others with your username being used to scam/hack people that trust you.

NOW THE CONTEXT: (and context needs context)

Peace my digital explorers, it's been a pretty crazy past few years in reference to our experience and relationship as humans interfacing with technology and the digital world compared to everything prior to life lived before the pandemic.

The emotional & critical impact of those changes will vary based on how and why you use technology or the internet, and while I know countless non creatives/artists who are having similar thoughts and feelings around the post pandemic digital/real world, it's no surprise the ones with the most emotional investment in feeling the negative impact of these changes are Creatives (all mediums/industries) who are old enough to have meaningfully experienced life in the digital world prior to Algorithms, but specifically pre-pandemic.

The world of internet / technology has been constantly changing and evolving since the beginning of our ability to connect to humans and experiences digitally. Things come, things go. Be Water. Adapt. My generation (Xenial) on the cusp of X/Millennial is specifically adept at going with the flow and pivoting being the first to experience life before, it's birth and grow with it from such an early age.

We were and are technology geeks, the generation of sci-fi and anime so unlike previous generations (boomers & beyond) My Generation & Beyond kind of all retained our childlike wonder well into adulthood.

My Generation was also born into college debt/credit cards/ the price of wages not increasing with the cost of living/housing. The generation that learned quickly that hard work, loyalty and consistency did not equal the promise of that expensive watch gifted at your retirement the career you had security and longevity working. We are also the generation born into life after GMO's, the consolidation of power and distribution experiencing post CLEARCHANNEL FM RADIO.

Long Story Short, we watched and experience in real time the effects of Capitalism and greed existing in a way we had no ability to combat or avoid and felt the critique and pressure of those generations who shaped a world designed to distract and extract.

The internet & technology was the trade off that helped us justify getting the short end of the stick. FM Radio / Cable Television, limited opportunities in terms of options for being exposed to legacy entertainment as a creator or consumer. Quality of social interactions, or knowledge/inspiration no longer being limited by physical location. This was the trade off that made being unfairly exploited and mistreated by systems in power digestible. We had a world to escape to that allowed us to focus on things and people that felt in resonance. We had the freedom to not watch the news every night designed to keep people in fear, completely avoid commercials trying to sell us products, and spend our free time consuming ideas and information we cared about from people we cared to follow instead of celebrity gossip or jerry springer.

So here is why I am personally, nuking my digitally footprint on X.

1st.) It just feels really dirty to my spirit because of how the person who owns it has chosen to abuse that responsibility & it's users. I get the same could be said about zuck, or insert platform here, but Elon is another level moral disconnect.

2nd) Thinking objectively and removing emotion, It just does not provide value. The topic of Reach and algorithms is a thing that I'm happy to rehash a million times over, but this platforms a bit different since the post elon/trump era. I can see the data, and it's not worth the trade off of also being exposed to rage bait, political and streamer drama, etc. that if you attempt to mute/block and signal you do not want, it 100% uses that to feed you more of what disrupts you. It's pretty Obvious that's the entire point.

The important part is, I was able to download all my data, so when the illusion of vibe coding loses it's novelty of spinning up toy versions of broken function front ends and security nightmares, and I start seeing real and frequent impressive, stable and awe inspiring examples of things being built that don't feel temporary or just generic.

I at least have a backup of the data to feed into whatever that future looks like =)

So I end this bit of context the same way it began:

Peace my digital explorers, it's been a pretty crazy past few years in reference to our experience and relationship as humans interfacing with technology and the digital world compared to everything prior to life lived before the pandemic. It's pretty wild someone with so much conviction and effort into preserving their digital footprint the past 6 years reached a point where because of the very unethical ways the people with power have opted to use our digital footprints. The most Artist coded move feels more compelled and in alignment with not participating in providing a digital footprint. <3