Louis C.K. Explains Why He Quit Twitter
If there was ever a good reason to quit Twitter — or at least one that doesn’t involve rage-quitting — Louis C.K. found it, saying that he was disgusted by his own contributions to the social media site.
“It didn’t make me feel good,” he told Gregg “Opie” Hughes on The Opie Show. “It made me feel bad instead. So I stopped doing it.”
“Every time I say anything on here,” the comedian explained. “I wish I hadn’t said it. And then I’ll write a couple things to try and fix it, it makes me feel worse.” A lot of his disgust had to do with his own perfectionism: “And then four and a half million people saw it! It was the worst things I ever said, heard and seen by the most people. It’s the worst possible scenario.”
“I don’t think the speed helps dialogue. I think it’s why everything is kind of fucked up and polarizing, because people are going too fast, they’re trying to react too quickly,” C.K. mused, before going after the dangerous #hottake and the Twitter users mad that he only used the site to promote his shows (“That’s what the fuck it is!”):
People write a whole think piece going “Here’s why this person’s wrong!” And you know a week later they’re going, “Ugh, I should have given that a little more thought. Given it an extra couple days.” I don’t like it. I hate the smarminess of little tweets…there’s no quality to it.
Listen below via The Opie Show:
[h/t Rolling Stone]
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