Ask not for whom the Louvre of Bluesky tolls, it tolls for thee
It’s a tragic weekend over at Bluesky, the place top-of-the-line accounts has disappeared — though we are able to nonetheless hope for its resurrection.
Generally known as The Louvre of Bluesky, the account in query struck concern into the hearts of dangerous posters in every single place. Whereas it posted commentary and jokes of its personal, its most brutally humorous and haunting work got here within the type of screenshots capturing rogue Bluesky posts in all their unhinged glory.
It’s onerous to put in writing a correct appreciation now that the Louvre has vanished, and it’s really inconceivable to create a full taxonomy of the all forms of poster’s illness it managed to seize within the wild. Maybe the defining attribute of posted captured by the Louvre of Bluesky — past the easy failure to get a joke — was its scolding tone, together with a way of absolute outrage that somebody, someplace is likely to be having enjoyable on the web.
Possibly I’m projecting an excessive amount of onto a screenshot-filled nameless social media account, however to me, it at all times felt like the precise reverse of the tedious, advert nauseum complaints that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber. This wasn’t somebody who’d spent a couple of minutes on the location simply to substantiate their suspicions and write the umpteenth model of the identical op-ed. Whether or not they liked Bluesky or hated it, whoever operated the account clearly knew the location’s darkest corners; they understood what absolute weirdos its customers might be.
The account additionally felt, at instances, like a warning — that any of us, in a second of weak point, may publish one thing clueless or cringe. Simply figuring out the Louvre of Bluesky was on the market was sufficient to scare me (not typically sufficient, I’m positive) into deleting a few dumb or apparent replies.
So the place has the Louvre of Bluesky gone? In a publish on Patreon, the account’s creator stated it could be taken down “quickly” resulting from “a loser and a coward” emailing their bosses and their spouse’s bosses. They added that they’re “unsure if the account will keep closed.”
It’s not a lot to go on. I can solely hope that like the actual museum, the Louvre of Bluesky will be capable to reopen quickly. However even when it doesn’t, its spirit will proceed haunting all of us who keep in mind we’re just some keystrokes away from being immortalized for a foul publish.
