Some time back (years) I wrote of Tila Tequila, a generally awful person.

I said (and still say) she was the precursor, the prophetic figurehead, of social media, and it's effects on people.

Start MySpace: she gets real famous. Most Friends on the service, more than Tom! Very social, approachable, engaging – a liked person.

Her success then leads to MTV's A Shot of Love with Tila Tequila. MySpace fades in popularity, but she doesn't.

Then Twitter, she becomes highly controversial, starts to ostracize people who disagree with her in front of her millions of followers. #TilaArmy is born. As is cancel culture (as it turns to out to be). Piling up on an unsuspecting Twitter account with millions of people because of a disagreement pre-Retweet button? Talent (sarcasm)

Then more controversy. More “leaked” videos. More Nazi-ism (a bit worse than the leaked videos). Heralding despots past. Banned from all social media.

She still had a YouTube channel, though. She had kids, and now describes the most bizarre fiction that she believes to be reality. Delusional, despicable, de-throwned from her once-popular state of celebrity.

And all before COVID, even.

A “what's to come” of the platforms in some ways, or at least with some people who get hooked on them, lose their minds (and reputation)

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