Three Posts With @boywaif, (Tania)

the girlblogging/bookish communist/neo-reactionary nexus, and the art of posting bangers on twitter dot com

My friend Tania is a Twitter micro-celebrity and a great thinker on all things internet, oceans/islands, Édouard Glissant, and much much more. We talked about three of their more viral posts, what it feels like making hit tweets, and the aesthetic traditions that knit 2014 Tumblr, bookish communist Twitter, Ezra Pound, neo-reactionary aesthetes, and TikTok screenshot quote posts together.

AIDAN: So Tania, @boywaif, how would you describe your niche (or niches) on Twitter?

TANIA: I would say I have several niches that do overlap, but there are parts of them that definitely don't overlap. So a true Venn diagram situation. Not exactly like a crossroads, because that implies momentariness, but more like a series of streams and channels that move like water — that stay in the same place sometimes but also have, like, various outlets.

AIDAN: So rhizomatic, in a sense. 

TANIA: Yes, in a way. So I feel like ther…