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I love this site and like lurk it a ton but I'm always like I don't fucking know anxious my comments or posts are too stupid or no one will like them. (p sure it's social anxiety related) So if you've had posting anxiety and got over it or have general tips please post advice in here. Thank ya.

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[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I made a post about God being a conservative and Jesus being his rebelling, liberal son who can’t fully eliminate the conservative brainworms he was taught. I also called God a Democrat for allowing evil to exist and competing with it instead of just permanently purging it.

I don’t think you can make a dumber post. But sometimes there’s like 5 piss jokes on the front page.

I don’t think you have anything to worry about.

But if you want serious advice, when I was in high school I used to ran various ironic meme pages and popularized a few formats. What made me more confident was

  1. Learning how to use photoshop and proper video editors because learning new, real skills and applying it to fucking memes was absurdly funny to me
  2. Deconstructing existing trends and memes until it becomes extremely meta and post-post-post-post ironic that eventually the comedy comes from me knowing my true intentions while everyone else only thinking they know it

Basically, I made myself laugh, and somehow other people found my trash amusing as well which made me confident that my posts would do relatively well. And if they didn’t? Oh well. I got my laugh.