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_refugee_  ·  2127 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: PSA: The hubwheel is not a "like" button.

How do you feel about notoriety because I feel like people who use it to mean fame are fucking idiots





kleinbl00  ·  2127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Tricky one, isn't it? If you frame yourself as an antihero, notoriety is fame. When Elliott Ness referred to Capone's notoriety, he was arguing that Capone was an infamously bad dude. But if you viewed Elliott Ness as the bad guy, notoriety is dope. I mean-

But I also think that the meaning was diluted a long, long time ago because

_refugee_  ·  2126 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i mean juicy over hypnotize erry day 'bl00