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Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.

No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.

This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.

So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.

I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?

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Enjoy my cover of Ed Sheeran's Tenerife Sea. Thanks to @talon for mixing. i appreciate all your support, and every share, every like, every comment means so so much to me.

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Ed Sheeran - Tenerife Sea (Cover by Estelle)

This video is special to me for so many reasons, not the least of which is that I have loved this song since the first time I heard it. Thank you to Talon fo...

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