Don’t smile. Wear your sunglasses at night, when it’s raining, when you’re with someone more important than you. Spend $234 on a T-shirt because you saw it in Flaunt Magazine. Wear black. Look at people with a confused but slightly offended face when they ask you questions.
Being an involved member of the interweb, oftentimes to a ridiculous extent thanks to the amour-propre of Twitter, inflections of a past era arise when stepping back and realizing that there was once a place that exuded the same feelings of acceptance, amicability, general dislike, identity frustration, and obscure curiosity.