symphvaria
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he's doing fine
I love Derek's writing, but I find tweets like this really embarrassing. It's not a flex to brag about having to block people because you're incapable or unwilling to deal with dissent, it just speaks to being thin-skinned.
In general, I really hate microblogging and I yearn for the return of long form content, not just from DWW but from any writer who has made the unfortunate decision to transition to 240 character shitposts. The latter may be great at providing dopamine hits, but for anyone trying to actually learn as much as they can about clothing or shoes or putting together a coherent wardrobe, it becomes near impossible to follow and search up older posts, which is particularly unfortunate when the person in question has a wealth of knowledge to potentially share like Derek does.
I also can't help but notice that, due to the incredibly short lifespan of content and due to the considerably larger and less knowledgeable audience that Derek is speaking to, that he ends up repeating himself over and over and over. Yes, the Nike x Tiffany collab is insufferable, as is much of hypebeast culture, but does it really bear repeating dozens of times? Likewise with the idea that putting together a coherent look has more value than owning flashy individual items, which is actually incredibly informative and absolutely warrants deeper study; yet I've actually never seen DWW explore the idea in-depth and have mostly just seen him repeat it over and over in the form of criticizing jewel colored shoes and blingy watches. The ideas are there, but they're never elaborated on, and the result is really unsatisfactory and frustrating.
I probably sound really whiny and entitled, but I learned a lot from Derek's old website, and I'd really like to see more focused and nuanced content like that. As is, I don't think I've actually picked up anything from his twitter that wasn't already expressed either here on StyFo or on his blog.