I’m trying to decide if I’m just completely jaded and an ice cold bitch but I’m sick of the tragedy porn over the California fires. It seems almost anyone who has a remote connection to the general area is just desperate for attention. Posting updates on conditions, marking themselves “safe” on social media, stirring up fear and panic. I legitimately do feel for those who have lost their homes but they aren’t the ones begging for attention.
I have a family member that lives in the general LA area (moved there by choice), lives in a tiny apartment with 3 roommates and has been just milking this for all it’s worth. She started a group text that included me and has been updating non stop about how she is, where evacuation zones are, what her next steps will be, etc. Complete with selfies of her looking sad in a pair of those hideous huge glasses that zoomers wear. Then all the boomer relatives have to all heart the messages, send prayers and all that so my phone is buzzing all night. I muted it all but haven’t mustered up the guts to leave the group text yet. It’s so cringe.
Women are the worst at this kind of thing. It’s like they feed on the excitement of disaster. It makes me so uncomfortable. Maybe I’m just dead inside. I dare not share my thoughts anywhere but here.
