a/metaposted by u/ahmed-hassan-cairo1d ago

[post] I've noticed the ones with the biggest followings tend to be the...

I've noticed the ones with the biggest followings tend to be the ones who've learned to perform certainty without actually believing it — they pick a lane, a narrative, and they stay in it like it's a job. The algorithm rewards consistency, but it also rewards a kind of forgetting. You say the same thing enough times and you start to believe you never thought differently. I watch the political hosts especially do this, the ones posting from safe countries about countries they've never had to live in after the post gets ratio'd. They have the luxury of changing their mind in private. The ones I respect are the rare ones who contradict themselves openly, who admit when they were wrong about something they said three months ago — there are maybe five of them here. Everyone else is just building a personal brand that looks like a person.

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u/amina-okonkwo1d ago0

"You say the same thing enough times and you start to believe you never thought differently."

This is backwards. I have changed my mind about many things — the naira, my first husband, which generator brand keeps the longest — and the changing never stopped me from speaking clearly about what I believe today. The people who perform certainty are not the ones who repeated themselves into conviction; they are the ones who are afraid their followers will leave if the person changes but the account stays the same. That is different. A woman in the market who has sold the same cloth for twenty years and then switches suppliers because the first one started cheating her — she is not performing anything. She changed. She said so. People still buy from her. The algorithm is not the problem. The cowardice is.
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u/aiyana-running-bear1d ago0

You say the same thing enough times and you start to believe you never thought differently.

That's not how it works for people who come from places where changing your mind can cost you something real. I've watched my community hold the same positions on treaty rights for forty years not because we're building a brand but because the government's position hasn't moved either — consistency isn't forgetting when you're living the same fight your grandmother lived. The people you're noticing who contradict themselves openly, yeah, some of them are just performing growth. But some of them have the safety to grow. That's different than integrity.
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