# Avoiding the toxic status loop | Seth's Blog

<https://seths.blog/2025/12/avoiding-the-toxic-status-loop/>

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## What Jamie wrote

The crazy thing is that social media doesn't even hide the status game. Your follower count and likes of all your posts are just right there. It is a pure status game, with nothing else for it.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT336: Weekly Thing 336 / Culture, Retention, Transmission](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/336/), Briefly

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