What's the point with that quite lackluster story in Endwalker?

[Teraq]

The hilarious thing was seeing people on Twitter and reddit after that letter talking about how genius it was as an idea.

I actually don't know what they meant by this. Am I to understand that Hermes just built his Twitter botnet that eventually degenerated into a feedback loop of nihilism which he then constantly doomscrolled through and retweeted, at the expense of the few human contacts he actually had? Is he meant to be a parody of a blackpill echo chamber? Or did they mean they were inspired by the "ASCIAN/GARLEAN STANS AND PROSHIPPERS DNI PLEASE READ MY CARRD" crowd? I am hopelessly confused.

It was, like, so deep man. Almost as deep as "life is suffering" as a concept. Seriously, who hit Ishikawa over the head with the bad writer stick during this writing process?

Twitter, is there a point to living? WHY LIFE IF DEATH?????

[PawPaw]

Am I to understand that Hermes just built his Twitter botnet that eventually degenerated into a feedback loop of nihilism which he then constantly doomscrolled through and retweeted, at the expense of the few human contacts he actually had?

I mean...sounds like Twitter to me.

...That wasn't just a joke? I seriously thought that was just a meme.

Sadly no...

[Teraq]

If only Hermes had done the sensible thing and deleted his Twitter to go out and touch some grass and actually speak to people

Speaking of dialogue choices, it reminded me of an anecdote with friends (who share my opinion of Endwalker): when given the choice, did you call her "Venat" or "Hydaelyn"? Two of us went with "Venat" because we wanted to bring her down to her human self who deleted her entire humanity and refused to use her "goddess" name, but the other went with "Hydaelyn" precisely because he refused to humanize her.