At Bluesky, one of the greatest accounts vanished over the weekend, but there is still hope that it may return.
The aforementioned account, dubbed The Louvre of Bluesky, terrified awful posters worldwide. Although it shared its own commentary and quips, its most gruesomely humorous and eerie creations were screenshots that showed rogue Bluesky posts in all their insane splendor.
Since the Louvre is no longer there, it is difficult to write a proper appreciation, and it is genuinely impossible to develop a comprehensive taxonomy of all the different types of poster sickness that it was able to capture in the wild. Perhaps more than just the inability to find a joke, the postings featured in the Louvre of Bluesky were characterized by a reprimanding tone and a feeling of complete indignation that someone, somewhere, might be enjoying themselves online.
For me, it always felt like the complete opposite of the tiresome, endless complaints that Bluesky is a liberal echo chamber. Perhaps I am projecting too much onto an anonymous social media account that is full of screenshots. This was not someone who had visited the website for a few minutes to write the hundredth iteration of the same opinion piece and confirm their assumptions. Whoever was in charge of the account, whether they liked Bluesky or not, was obviously familiar with its darkest parts and knew what kind of crazy people its members could be.
At times, the account also seemed to be a warning that anyone may publish something foolish or embarrassing in a moment of weakness. I deleted a few stupid or blatant responses because I was so afraid of the existence of the Louvre of Bluesky—not often enough, I am sure.
So, where is Bluesky’s Louvre now? The author of the account stated in a Patreon post that it will be deleted “temporarily” because “a loser and a coward” had emailed their bosses and their wife’s bosses. “I am not sure if the account will stay closed,” they added.
There is not much to say. I can only hope that the Louvre of Bluesky will be able to reopen soon, just like the actual museum. Even if it doesn’t, its ghost will still haunt everyone who remembers that a single keyboard may make us eternal for a poorly written article.
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