It also applies to the commenting phenomenon on popular or trendy blogs where people gush over and over and over to the blogger over what a genius s/he is: blind adoration without an ounce of sincerity behind it.

One can only read so many comments proclaiming the blogger a genius before one’s eyes develop a repetitive strain injury from too much rolling. Glamour/hype obfuscates reality in blogging, as in sex, sometimes.

Thanks for allowing me to come and hang out, let’s do it again sometime