Twitter Jail is a slang phrase used to describe Twitter's limits on tweets, direct messages and followers per day. Twitter uses this method to reduce spammers and reduce error pages. Start by understanding Twitter’s limits and working around them to avoid Twitter Jail.If you have found yourself on the undesirable list, there are a few main things you can do to help get yourself out of jail.

The Twitter Jail

<ol><li>Start by following the restriction of 100 tweets per hour. This includes retweets and links.</li><li>Don’t tweet more than 1,000 times per day. If you exceed this limit, you will be in Twitter Jail until the following day.</li><li>Reduce your Direct Messages, if you send 250 per day. If you exceed the 250 DM limit, you will be in Twitter Jail until the next day.</li><li>Don’t tweet duplicate content. If the Twitter system finds you retweeting the same links or phrases over and over, you can be sent to Twitter Jail.</li><li>Limit how many people you follow in a day.</li></ol>

Understanding Twitter Limits

Wait patiently. If you receive an error message when you are trying to tweet, message or retweet after being very active, you are most likely in Twitter Jail.<ul><li>Read the step above to see how long you are likely to have an inactive account.</li><li>Your error message may read "Your Account Has Been Suspended."</li><li>Make sure you aren’t in serious violation of other Twitter rules. </li><li>After several hours or a day, you can try to tweet again, and it should go through.</li></ul>

Getting Out of Twitter Jail

Twitter also has API limits. In other words, they limit the interactions between applications and software more than direct interaction with the Twitter website.Many people find it easier to end up in Twitter Jail if they are using a third-party Twitter client, a blog, a phone app and a computer.

Avoid Tweeting on Multiple Devices

<ul><li>If your account has not returned to normal, you may have been identified as a spam account.</li><li>Email twitter.com/support with your account name and problem.</li><li>If Twitter believes they have associated you with spam incorrectly they will reinstate your account and apologize.</li><li>It may take several hours for the account to return to normal</li></ul>

Email Twitter Support

<ul><li>Twitter has set what they believe are reasonable limits for personal tweeting.</li><li>Dial back your tweeting for a week, to see if your results actually improve as you are more discerning.</li></ul>

Reduce the Amount You Tweet and Retweet

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<li>If you do not want to limit your tweets or follows, then make a second or third free Twitter account.</li>
<li>Try to associate the accounts with each other, so that it will be easy to gain followers who are familiar with your first account.</li>
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Create another Twitter Account

<ul><li>Choose whether you want to use your computer, phone or blog and stick to that client.</li><li>Reducing your Twitter clients will help you to remain within API limits and keep you out of Twitter Jail.</li></ul>

Be Selective with Your Twitter Clients

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<li>If you want to post links to your blog yourself, unlink your website from your Twitter account.</li>
<li>Every time you post new content, your website may push it to Twitter.</li>
<li>If you do not want to tweet new content yourself, then linking your accounts may be the best option.</li>
<li>Make sure other website or blog editors are not updating the site more than 100 times per hour or 1,000 times per day, or your blog can put you in Twitter Jail.</li>
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Beware That Blog Tweeting May Result In Duplicate Content

Direct messaging limits may be easy to reach if you are using them for work or important conversations.Reach out via email or phone to save time with work conversations or networking.

Propose that You Text or Email with Twitter Users

This should be obvious, but worth noting anyway. Be meticulous about following the rules on Twitter. Make sure you’re not spamming, harassing, or posting content that may be deemed too “offensive.”

Don't Be A Spammer And Follow The Basic Online Etiquettes

Twitter takes how you interact with other accounts into consideration. Constantly commenting on or tagging accounts that you don’t follow or who don’t follow you can be considered a red flag. If you are getting sucked into troll drama, consider blocking rather than engaging. Retweet posts from a variety of sources, including verified accounts.

Don't Tag Your Favourite Celebrity Every Time

This might not feel helpful if you’re trying to hit the ground running with a fresh Twitter account, but Twitter does take the age of an account into consideration. This is because trolls often create new accounts to avoid bans and blocking. In a month or two, if you have tried everything else and made no progress in getting unbanned, simply waiting may do the trick.

If Your Account Is New, Wait

One of the biggest problems with Twitter is that it is a massive, centralized, proprietary system. This means that users have no control over what happens to them, and are prevented from gaining important knowledge about their own accounts.While many people rely on Twitter for social reach and an audience, if you are experiencing banning consider switching to decentralized social media instead — or, at least diversifying your reach by not relying on a single source.

Use Decentralized Social Media

Twitter Jail is a slang phrase used to describe Twitters limits on tweets, direct messages and followers per day. Twitter uses this method to reduce spammers and reduce error pages. Start by understanding Twitter's limits and working...

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How to Get Out of Twitter Jail

Quitting social media isn't easy because as long as you are connected to the internet, the internet will find a way to ensnare you in some form or another.Okay, there are 30,000 hours of newly uploaded content per hour on YouTube. That’s almost 3½ years worth of video added to the bottomless internet pit every hour. This literally means that you will never, ever, catch up with how much content there is out there. And that’s just YouTube alone.

Can't Let Go Of Social Media

The trick here is not to squeeze in more in the hours of the day (it’s not possible anyway), but to work with “what I want”.We can’t change the number of hours in the day, nobody can. The only thing we can change is how much time we sleep, and other things we do on a daily basis. So we need to really ask ourselves, are we willing to give up sleep, work, and connecting with people, to consume that much more content to catch up with all this stuff that is put out into the world? Probably not. So the only thing that we can change is choosing what we want to consume.

Making Peace with Infinity

The first step is to acknowledge that you can never finish watching every video, TV show, or movie you want in the world. You can never finish reading every book you want. You can never finish scrolling through every page on Reddit. There’s just too much and you have to accept that there are just some things in this world that you are going to miss out on.And that’s okay.

Step 1: Give up Wanting It All

The second step is to have priorities to what you consume. This is to be conscious of what you really want to consume, and not just because it’s there. It’s very tempting to let the YouTube recommended videos or autoplay decide for you what to watch next. But if what’s there is not the priority of what you want to consume, don’t do it.

Step 2: Discern the Priorities

<ul><li>The pages of Instagram and Facebook are an endless scroll, they are always there, and there is always more.</li><li>You have to set self-imposed content and time limits. Decide that you will watch just one episode, or will scroll for only 10 minutes.</li><li>Even if you exceed these guidelines occasionally, it is good to have them.</li></ul>

Step 3: Setting up limits

We can’t expect ourselves to be able to resist triggers if we don’t train our nervous system to handle these triggers.These triggers could just be as simple as the tempting infinite scroll, or the eye-catching thumbnail of a YouTube video. The ones that trigger your dopamine response to want to consume and satisfy the curiosity that has been planted in you.Meditation at the start of your day can help inject some calm throughout your day and make you less jittery.

Step 4: Training Your Nervous System

Like it or not, “content” is here to stay. As long as we progress technologically in this information age, where content is king, we have to live with it. Even this stash, it's content.So our duty to ourselves is to find the content that energizes us, content that we choose to consume, so we don’t fall into the infinity of the internet. We have to make peace with how we will never experience all that is out there, and that’s okay.

Content Is Here To Stay

You will always miss out on social media. Relax.

Over the course of the months, I have been anxious, distracted, and cluttered with a megaton of brainfog. You know, the feeling where you feel like you are moving through life with a thick veil that…

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The scepticism many of us feel towards people who are only trying to make the world a better place is a known behaviour, described by psychologists as “do-gooder derogation”. And while the phenomenon may seem to be wholly irrational, there are some compelling evolutionary reasons for being wary of unreciprocated altruism.With an understanding of our innate suspicion around overt acts of kindness, we can identify the specific situations in which generosity is welcomed and when it is resented – with some important lessons for our own behaviour.

Hating Good And Morally Upright People

Recent behavioural studies show that selfishness and selflessness are considered to be morally equivalent by a lot of people.Strikingly, this tendency seems to emerge early in life – at around the age of eight. And while the size of the effect may vary depending on the context, it seems to be present to some degree in most cultures – suggesting it may be a universal tendency.

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

To understand the origins of this seemingly irrational behaviour, we need to consider how human altruism emerged in the first place.According to evolutionary psychology, hardwired human behaviours should have evolved to improve our survival and our ability to pass on our genes to another generation. In the case of altruism, generous acts could help us to foster good relationships within the group which, over time, help to build social capital and status.

Reciprocity and Reputation 

Reputation is “positional” – if one person rises, the others fall. This can create a strong sense of competition, which means that we’re always alert to the possibility that other people are getting ahead of us, even if they are achieving their status through altruism. We’ll be especially resentful if we think that the other person was only looking for those reputational benefits, rather than acting out of a genuine interest in others, since it may suggest a cunning and manipulative personality more generally.

If A Person Rises, Others Must Fall

Altruistic behaviour can make us walk a metaphorical tightrope. We need to balance our generosity perfectly, so that we are seen as cooperative and good, without arousing the suspicion that we are acting solely for the status.If there’s no good evidence to suggest that their acts of generosity are self-serving, we may choose to give them the benefit of the doubt, knowing that our uncharitable intuitions may be fuelled by our own fears of losing status.

The Rules Of Life

Ultimately, the only fool-proof way to avoid do-gooder derogation may be to do your best deeds in complete secret. And if others happen to discover the truth, despite your attempts to hide it – well, the good reputation that follows is simply a bonus.

Hide The Good Deeds!

People tend to hate the goody-good and kind people!

‘Do-gooders’ are often judged harshly. Why do we resent their acts of altruism or question their motives?

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Why overly kind and moral people can rub you up the wrong way

The gala is a fundraiser dedicated to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute – formally named The Anna Wintour Costume Center, in homage to the American Vogue's editor-in-chief, who has been a chair member of the museum's gala since 1995.The benefit founded in 1948 by publicist Eleanor Lambert was to encourage donations from New York's high society, and happens on the first Monday of May.

The Met Gala

The Met Gala also marks the opening night of the Costume Institute's annual fashion exhibit. 
The theme of the exhibition sets the tone for the event and invitees must dress accordingly.

The Theme Of The Event

Other than Anna Wintour, each year the event brings honorary chair members. The late Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace were the first designers chosen to co-chair the night, in 1995.Since then, among many designers and fashion insiders, the gala has also made room for celebrities (and even royalty) to participate: Caroline Princess of Hanover was a chair of the 2005 Met Gala, Beyoncé was a chair member in 2013, and last year saw Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace co-chairing the event. Donatella is also a sponsor of the exhibition.

The Chair Members

Without being an actress, model, musician, Vogue editor, A-lister's plus one, or wealthy enough to donate hundreds of thousands to the Met Museum and become a sponsor, it's not easy.Tickets go for approximately £23,000, while tables cost £211,000 – and that's before you get your hands on a Met-worthy designer dress costing around $30,000.

How To Get A Ticket To The Met Gala

The Met Gala: Everything You Need To kKnow About The Biggest Fashion Event On The Calendar

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What is the Met Gala & why is everyone so damn obsessed with it?

"May the 4th be with you." It's the famous Star Wars pun that launched a holiday, and for good reason. It's clever, it's catchy, and everyone loves Star Wars. But just how did that clever turn of phrase turn into a bona fide Star Wars holiday that fans celebrate on the fourth of May?Not all that long ago, in this very galaxy, Star Wars fans found a really good excuse to celebrate their obsession on Star Wars Day, aka May the 4th.

Star Wars Day

<ul><li>The phrase "May the Fourth be with you, Maggie" originated in England's conservative party, the Tories, after Margaret Thatcher won the election to become the first female prime minister of the United Kingdom.</li><li>While the pun stuck and became popular with Star Wars fans, it didn't cross over into mainstream pop culture for another 20 years.</li><li>It wasn't until the early 2000s that fans were using it constantly on social media.</li></ul>

Unlikely Origins Of Star Wars Day

In 2012, Disney bought Lucasfilm and the Star Wars franchise, so it made sense for them to embrace May 4th as a public holiday.It began as an unofficial holiday and was more of an unofficial recognition of the franchise than an official holiday until the California legislature voted in 2019 to officially make it a holiday.

Star Wars Day Is An Actual Holiday

<ul><li>Star Wars parties, themed food, movie marathons, and charity events</li><li>The 501st Legion, Darth Vader and stormtroopers from the 501st make appearances at children’s hospitals</li><li>Merchandise is sold and important to the success of the franchise</li><li>Ask Alexa to use the Force</li></ul>

Everything Star Wars On 4th May

<ul><li>There are a slew of new Star Wars movies and TV shows slated for the very near future, but the only one slated for May 4th this year is the behind-the-scenes special Disney Gallery: The Book of Boba Fett</li><li>Other 2022 highlights include Andor, a Disney+ prequel series to Rogue One that follows rebel spy and future hero Cassian Andor.</li><li>Most of them are TV series or on OTT platforms like Disney+, instead of being theatrical releases.</li></ul>

Future Instalments In The Franchise

How did the phrase “May the 4th be with you” lead to a Star Wars holiday? Find out the surprising answer—and how to celebrate, Jedi style.

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May the 4th Be with You: All About the Star Wars Holiday

“The Gothic speaks to this sense that we are all entangled in a messy middle, living in weird borderless biomes whose complex networks we can barely fathom.”

“Pointed arches stretch up towards God, flooding the interior with divine light and inspiring solemn awe, what one commentator called ‘an artificial infinite’.” - Roger Luckhurst

Gothic Architecture

“Monsters are cultural bodies that mark a ‘crisis of category’.” - <a href="https://www.jeffreyjeromecohen.com">Jeffery Jerome Cohen</a>

Monsters

“Humans exist in complex, interdependent, cross-species assemblages that drives a more subtle kind of monster.” - Roger Luckhurst

Cross-species Assemblages

“The octopus is likely to be ‘the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien’.” - Peter Godfrey-Smith, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Other-Minds-Octopus-Evolution-Intelligent-ebook/dp/B01LXKA6FO/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=e5387ccf-f186-446b-bb23-70914bd82dc1">The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life (2016)</a>

Tentacles

“The biological world of fungi is highly ordered, marked by open-ended cooperative assemblages, ecologies whose complexities scientists are still trying to grasp.” - Roger Luckhurst

Fungi

“Gothic” by Roger Luckhurst is a plentiful book full of Gothic information. Ranging from categories such as architecture, design, film and television.

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an unprecedented look at the ways this uncanny style has manifested itself through architecture, literature, film, art, video games, and more. From the works of Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hoffman to Southern Gothic, ancient folklore, and classic horror movies, Roger Luckhurst explores how an aesthetic that began in the margins has been reinvented through the centuries to become part of mainstream global culture. Organizing his wide-ranging history by theme, Luckhurst begins with Gothic architecture and form, including such elements as the arch, the house, and ruins. He considers how the Gothic is depicted in rural and urban settings, as well as in the wilderness and borderlands. And he delves into Gothic traditions and settings around the world, from the sublime Alps and Australian outback to the Arctic wasteland, from the dark folkloric realm of the forest to the postindustrial landscapes of abandoned hospitals and asylums, and then beyond the bounds of the planet to unknowable cosmic horror. Luckhurst investigates the monsters that mirror ourselves and society, and demonstrates that as the Gothic has traveled across the globe and through time, it has morphed according to the shape of our changing fears and anxieties. Filled with a wealth of color illustrations, Gothic will satisfy anyone yearning to lift the veil on our fascination with the eerie, morbid, and supernatural.

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Books

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Product & Design

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film The word Gothic conjures associations with the dark and melancholy, the weird and feared, and haunted places and people. In Gothic, Roger Luckhurst offers readers an unprecedented look at the ways this uncanny style has manifested itself through architecture, literature, film, art, video games, and more. From the works of Victor Hugo and E. T. A. Hoffmann to Southern Gothic, ancient folklore, and classic horror movies, Luckhurst explores how an aesthetic that began in the margins has been reinvented through the centuries to become part of mainstream global culture. Organizing his wide-ranging history by theme, Luckhurst begins with Gothic architecture and form, including such elements as the arch, the house, and ruins. He considers how the Gothic is depicted in rural and urban settings, as well as in the wilderness and borderlands. And he delves into Gothic traditions and settings around the world, from the sublime Alps and Australian outback to the Arctic wasteland, from the dark folkloric realm of the forest to the postindustrial landscapes of abandoned hospitals and asylums, and then beyond the bounds of the planet to unknowable cosmic horror. Luckhurst investigates the monsters that mirror ourselves and society, and demonstrates that as the Gothic has traveled across the globe and through time, it has morphed according to the shape of our changing fears and anxieties. Filled with a wealth of color illustrations, Gothic will enthrall anyone yearning to lift the veil on our fascination with the eerie, morbid, and supernatural.

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Gothic

Social scientists are finding users are not just editing settings on social media. Users, especially women, are editing their bodies and faces. And this practice has led to a new standard of beauty.Problematically, social scientists say this standard of beauty is nearly impossible to obtain. Some people have turned to cosmetic surgery to get the results they want. Others are grappling with anxiety or eating disorders. Researchers say it’s a growing issue impacting young people worldwide.

Fake Famous

"Slim thick" is the new body ideal. Celebrities Kim Kardashian and Nikki Minaj represent this standard — slender face and arms, large breasts, flat stomach, ample hips and a "beach-ball" butt.Only a small percentage of women’s bodies are going to be able to achieve this with the targeted workouts. In the absence of being able to achieve this, women all over the world are getting plastic surgery.

Women's 2022 Body Shape Goal

Social media now provides users with a steady stream of images that are edited to fit with the new slim thick ideal. We’re constantly staring at our phones and looking at these images and it creates a normalizing effect. It’s constant comparison, mostly of the bad kind.There are multiple types of comparison. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X20300464">Upward comparison</a> occurs when a person looks at images of a person they perceive as being better than themselves. Not surprisingly, studies have found that engaging in upward comparison has a negative impact on a person’s well-being.

Hyper Comparison

Another type of comparison occurs when the social media user compares their online, edited self to their real-life body. Online editing software has evolved beyond removing red-eye or whitening teeth. Users can now make their bodies look thinner, plump lips, or remove acne.The editing tools are limitless and allow you to morph your features in any way you want.Social media has changed both expectations for the ideal body type and which facial features are now considered ideal. This new ideal includes slanted, cat-like eyes, slender noses, high cheekbones and full lips.

Our Real Self Vs The Online Image

The face we show online is the pulling of features for the exoticization of beauty.Social media users can use editing tools to achieve the look in pictures. The person might be satisfied with the photo, but that sense of self-contentedness doesn’t continue when they look in the mirror.

That Online Face You Create Does Not Exist In Real Life

Studies are seeing a connection between the editing tools and plastic surgery, a trend practitioners call “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8823563/">Snapchat dysmorphia.”</a> One study of plastic surgery patients found social media users who edit their photos were <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8485851/">more likely to seek cosmetic enhancement</a>. Similarly, <a href="https://academic.oup.com/asj/article/41/3/NP101/5802785?login=true">in a 2020 study</a> in Aesthetic Surgery Journal, one-third of surveyed cosmetic enhancement patients said they used editing tools. Half of the respondents said social media influenced their decision to seek cosmetic surgery or fillers.

Snapchat Dysmorphia

Beauty standards have always been set out of reach of the average person.The problem is that editing software now gives people a new vision of themselves at a time when beauty standards have morphed into an impossible idea.

Impossible Beauty Standards

Studies are seeing connections between social media editing tools and plastic surgery.  

How Is Social Media Morphing Our Self-Image?

Fame is deeply attractive because it seems to offer very significant benefits. The fantasies go like this: when you are famous, wherever you go, your good reputation will precede you. People will think well of you, because your merits have been impressively explained in advance. You will get warm smiles from admiring strangers. You won’t need to make your own case laboriously on each occasion.

The Appeal Of Fame

<ul><li>When you are famous, you will be safe from rejection. You won’t have to win over every new person.</li><li>Fame will mean other people will be flattered and delighted even if you are only slightly interested in them. They will be amazed to see you in the flesh.</li><li>When you’re not pleased with something, it will become a big problem for others.</li><li>If you say your hotel room isn’t up to scratch, the management will panic.</li><li>Your complaints will be taken very seriously.</li><li>Your happiness will become the focus of everyone’s efforts.</li><li>You will make or break other people’s reputations. You’ll be the boss.</li></ul>

When You Are Famous...

The desire for fame has its roots in the experience of neglect, in injury. No one would want to be famous who hadn’t also, somewhere in the past, been made to feel extremely insignificant. We sense the need for a great deal of admiring attention when we have been painfully exposed to earlier deprivation. Perhaps one’s parents were hard to impress. They never noticed one much, they were so busy with other things, focusing on other famous people, unable to have or express kind feelings, or just working too hard.

The Desire Of Fame

When one has an insignificant or even traumatic childhood, one dreams that some day the world will pay attention. We also believe then when we’re finally famous, our parents will have to admire us too (which throws up an insight into one of the great signs of good parenting: that your child has no desire to be famous).

A Need From Childhood

But even if our parents were warm and full of praise, there might still be a problem. It might be that it was the buffeting and indifference of the wider world (starting with the schoolyard) that was intolerable after all the early years of adulation at home. One might have emerged from familial warmth and been mortally hurt that strangers were not as kind and understanding as one had come to expect. The crushing experience of humiliation might even have been vicarious: one’s mother being rudely dismissed by a waiter; one’s father standing awkwardly alone.

The World Not Being Kind To Us

What is common to all dreams of fame: Being known to strangers emerges as a solution to a hurt. It presents itself as the answer to a deep need to be appreciated and treated decently by other people.And yet fame cannot accomplish what is asked of it. It does have advantages, which are evident. But it also introduces a new set of very serious disadvantages, which the modern world refuses to view as structural rather than incidental.

Fame Is Not The Answer

Every new famous person who disintegrates breaks down in public or loses their mind is judged in isolation, rather than being interpreted as a victim of an inevitable pattern within the pathology of fame.The world isn’t generally kind to the famous for very long. The reason is basic: the success of any one person involves humiliation for lots of others. The celebrity of a few people will always contrast painfully with the obscurity of the many.

Being Famous Upsets People

When we imagine fame, we forget that it is inextricably connected to being too visible in the eyes of some, to bugging them unduly, to coming to be seen as the plausible cause of their humiliation: a symbol of how the world has treated them unfairly.So soon enough, the world will start to go through the rubbish bags of the famous, it will comment negatively on their appearance, it will pour over their setbacks, it will judge their relationships, it will mock their new movies.

The Dark Side Of Fame

Fame makes people more, not less, vulnerable, because it throws them open to unlimited judgement. Everyone is wounded by a cruel assessment of their character or merit. But the famous have an added challenge in store. The assessments will come in from legions of people who would never dare to say to their faces what they can now express from the safety of the newspaper office or screen. We know from our own lives that a nasty remark can take a day or two to process.

Making People Even More Vulnerable

Social media hasn’t helped. It’s made it far easier than before to be famous. And therefore, by necessity, far easier to be hated. A minor celebrity can now regularly face all the vitriol previously accorded only to Hollywood stars.Paradoxically, the famous are the very last people on earth to be well equipped to deal with what they’re going through. After all, they only became famous because they were wounded because they had thin skin; because they were in some respects a bit ill. And now far from compensating them adequately for their disease, fame aggravates it exponentially.

And Then Comes Social Media

Every worst fear about oneself (that one is stupid, ugly, not worthy of existence) will daily be actively confirmed by strangers. One will be exposed to the fact that people one has never met, about whom one would have only goodwill, actively loathe one. One will learn that detestation of one’s personality is – in some quarters – a badge of honour. Sometimes the attacks will be horribly insightful. At other times, they’ll make no sense to anyone who really knows one. But the criticisms will lodge in people’s minds nevertheless – and no lawyer, court case or magician can ever delete them.

The Hate Speech Of Strangers Seeps Inside The Mind

Fame really just means you get noticed a great deal – not that you get understood, appreciated or loved.At an individual level, the only mature strategy is to give up on fame. The aim that lay behind the desire for fame remains important. One does still want to be appreciated and understood. But the wise person accepts that celebrity does not actually provide these things. Appreciation and understanding are only available through individuals one knows and cares about, not via groups of a thousand or a million strangers.

Fame Means You Get Noticed, That's All

For those who are already famous, the only way to stay sane is to stop listening to what the wider world is saying. This applies to the good things as much as to the bad. It is best not to know. The wise person knows that their products need attention. But they make a clear distinction between the purely practical needs of marketing and advocacy and the intimate desire to be liked and treated with justice and kindness by people they don’t know.

Tip For The Already Famous

At a collective, political level we should pay great attention to the fact that, today, so many people (particularly young ones) want to be famous – and even see fame as a necessary condition for a successful life. Rather than dismiss this wish, we should grasp its underlying worrying meaning: they want to be famous because they are not being respected because citizens have forgotten how to accord one another the degree of civility, appreciation and decency that everyone craves and deserves. The desire for fame is a sign that ordinary life has ceased to be good enough.

The Bottom Line

Everything we thought about being famous is wrong.

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Have you ever watched a movie or TV show and noticed that a line of dialogue or a <a href="https://masterclass.com/articles/how-to-write-the-first-plot-point-of-your-story">plot point</a> seemed familiar? Maybe a character says, "let’s get the hell out of dodge," or the film's hero is a prophesied "chosen one." These are both examples of clichés. If you're a beginner <a href="https://masterclass.com/articles/tips-for-becoming-a-screenwriter">screenwriter</a> wondering how to avoid using clichés in your own writing, there’s no better guide than <a href="https://www.masterclass.com/classes/shonda-rhimes-teaches-writing-for-television">acclaimed television writer and producer Shonda Rhimes</a>.

Clichés Everywhere

A cliché is an expression that was once innovative but has lost its novelty due to overuse. Take the phrase “as red as a rose” for example—it is a universal descriptor for the colour red that is now commonplace and unoriginal. Other examples of clichés include demarcations of time, such as “in the nick of time” and “at the speed of light.” Clichés also include expressions about emotions, such as “head over heels” to describe love, or the phrase “every cloud has a silver lining” to express hope in difficult situations.

Defining A Cliché

Any line of dialogue that you've ever heard anybody say before is already a cliché, so don't write it down.When there are seemingly limitless ways to express a sentiment, why wouldn't you create an original sentence? If you're struggling to come up with fresh words, use a thesaurus—just be careful to not misuse an unfamiliar word.

6 Tips for Avoiding Clichés in Writing: If Your Dialogue Sounds Familiar, Write Something New

Your goal isn't to copy somebody that you admire, your goal is to be the thing that other people would admire themselves. Instead of borrowing from someone else's writing, make your own writing completely original. Make it your goal to write something so innovative that it becomes a new cliché.

Strive to Create a New Cliché

There's almost nothing new under the sun. But there are different interpretations and different ways of thinking of things that are new." It's impossible to be one hundred percent unique all the time, so try putting a new twist on a familiar concept. Use a familiar idea as inspiration, and approach it from a new point of view. A great way to <a href="https://www.masterclass.com/articles/tips-for-writing-a-killer-plot-twist">create an effective plot twist</a> is to start with a clichéd premise, then subvert the audience’s expectations by going in a different direction.

Put A Spin On It

You want your dialogue to have a real quality that doesn't feel like 'TV talk.' Authentic dialogue should sound the way people actually talk. In real life, people don't talk in complete sentences, they use the wrong words, they talk over each other, and nobody says all the perfect things at the perfect times.

Write Realistic Dialogue

You can think of the dialogue you write as being the conversations that real people have—the kind you would overhear someone having if you were hiding in a closet in their house." One of the best ways to get a feel for how people actually talk is to pay attention to how people talk in the real world.

Eavesdrop on Real Conversations for Inspiration

Get somebody else to read your dialogue out loud for you, because then you can really hear how it sounds. ” You might not realize you used a cliché until you hear it spoken out loud. When you finish your first draft, either read your dialogue aloud yourself or ask someone else to read it aloud for you. If you notice any overused phrases, go back and rewrite them in a fresh way.

Listen to Your Dialogue Read Aloud

When working on your own screenplays, avoid these common clichés:“The wrong side of the bed.”“Think outside the box.”“Loose canon.”“Can of worms.”“What goes around comes around.”“Dead as a doornail.”“Plenty of fish in the sea.”“Ignorance is bliss.”“Like a kid in a candy store.”“You can’t judge a book by its cover.”“Take the tiger by the tail.”“Every rose has its thorn.”“Good things come to those who wait.”“In the nick of time.”"If only walls could talk.”“The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”“The pot calling the kettle black.”“The grass is always greener on the other side.”

Common Clichés to Avoid in Your Writing

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Reading & Writing

Avoid Writing Clichés

Trees have enchantment and self-clarification to artists. “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way,” wrote William Blake.

The artist and trees

In a 1924 lecture about the creative process, German artist Paul Klee has insightfully intersected the canon of sylvan metaphors with the canon of theories of creativity.
"The artist has studied this world of variety and has, we may suppose, unobtrusively found his way in it. His sense of direction has brought order into the passing stream of image and experience. This sense of direction in nature and life, this branching and spreading array, I shall compare with the root of the tree.
From the root the sap flows to the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye."

Paul Klee likens the artist to a tree

Klee cautions that It is rather the work of transmutation for which the artist is both the agent and the vessel: "Nobody would affirm that the tree grows its crown in the image of its root. Between above and below can be no mirrored reflection. It is obvious that different functions expanding in different elements must produce divergences.[...] And yet, standing at his appointed place, the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what comes to him from the depths. He neither serves nor rules — he transmits."

The work of art is not a direct translation of the subconscious

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How an Artist is Like a Tree: Paul Klee on Creativity

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