A famed comedian dies after a month-long struggle for life, and condolence messages swamp the internet.
Someone writes “Why I don’t care” followed by a screenshot showing abusive language used by him on Twitter. Can this be the same person?
It’s not easy unboxing another life, to find remnants of strange secrets and unknown temperamental traits. We don’t know what drove him to dark corners where his soul gathered venom while his art flourished, or if he was hired to use his popularity to malign a particular segment.
The image is tarnished forever. Will his face look like Dorian Gray?
Written for Friday Fictioneers
Reena Saxena 
Screenshots are becoming a dangerous tool, nowadays. ‘… if he was hired to use his popularity to malign a particular segment.’ Who knows…
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Screenshots, audio and video recordings. You are under surveillance all the time.
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So true. No privacy.
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Ha ha… 🤣
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Garage Sale? 😊
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There are buyers for celebrity secrets and skeletons falling out of cupboards.
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Dear Reena,
Well written and thought provoking. The reference to Dorian Gray is the exclamation point.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thank you, Rochelle!
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Can the artist and the art ever be separated? I have my doubts. 🙂
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Something to ponder about… Thank you, Bill!
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🙂
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Truthful! Social media is a dangerous place. Well done 😊
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Thank you!
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I think most of us have some ‘other’ life that we don’t put on general display. Twitter, however, is proving to be the undoing of many a ‘good’ person.
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People delete posts and comments when they regret it, but screenshots are taken before that. Thank you, Sandra!
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Twitter can be a cesspit. Negativity lingers.
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True. Thank you!
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Look hard enough and anyone has said something they shouldn’t have at some point, only now the internet stores them for posterity.
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True that. Thank you, Iain!
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Reena, I think those are called skeletons in the closet, but with social media, the skeletons are out of the closet and tap dancing in perpetuity.
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Screenshots are taken before they delete it 😂
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UK readers such as may immediately think of TV’s Jimmy Saville. An interesting take Reena.
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Thank you!
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Problem is that we visualise a person or build an image of them based on few glimpses we get.
Need to learn to delink, issues or a particular issue from the person or personality.
People change and evolve continuously. A small part of their life should not be held against them at the cost neglecting the greater joy they spread. Because, we then acquire the negativity of that person and not the positivity.
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Maybe you are right. Thank you, Shashi!
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Sometimes, we’re better not knowing. Love the reference to Dorian Gray 🙂
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Thank you, Linda!
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Nice reference to Wilde
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Thank you, Neil!
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