meta-note: this post has bounced up and down, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2. something like that. i just find that weird. hn has some weird downvoting behaviors that i really don't understand at all. maybe there's something legit downvotable or that people don't like? this seems like an innocuous post to me. i don't see the reason for it to keep getting negged.

apologies. i know discussing meta-topics is against the rules. i just really dont understand why there's an ongoing basis against this content becoming popular. it's so weird to me. i want to believe there's genuine real authentic behavior behind the votes happening here & elsewhere, but it feels so so weird to see this kind of straightforward telling constantly bounded, rising, then flattened back down, again and again. it instills a larger sense of disbelief, feels like there are vulgar reactionary forces about, which is not at all a conspiracy mindset i want to fall into.