Drivel

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Gonna get a little #deep here.[1]

There's an intern behind a desk, maybe paid minimum wage or paid the prospect of a future job opportunity, working at a company where they vetted her application by looking at her social media accounts, checking for any unsavory behaviors, where sitting at a desk at the corporate office she writes tweets that create a uncontroversial stir among users sitting at their desk, on a bus, on the toilet, when they retweet it for a chuckle, for a laugh, DM it to their friends, saying, "they said what?!" all in good fun except for the intern who takes her work seriously, because her work is not her work but the brand's reach, each tweet reaching farther and farther, on a dashboard, on a wall, on a forum, ending up in a wiki on electronic literature as an example of "Art After Social Media" for an assignment written by Wifi_password, fitting their brand of #post and delivering some primo content, though it gets hard and one has to remain consistent and not let the truth slip, because it is off-brand to be inconsistent, so the intern never deviates and the content st(r)eams ahead from her finger tips to the heart and minds of millions of Denny's followers to be remembered not as art but as an ad that you see on a Monday afternoon that makes you ask, "when did I start following Denny's?"