Deleting a Thirst Trap Due to Low Likes
You posted a selfie you thought was great and the engagement said otherwise. Deleting a thirst trap due to low engagement is the internet fail with the highest aura tax because it is a public admission that your self image and the audience image of you are misaligned. One million points lost because the delete is the confession. The post itself was fine. The delete is the wound. The delete says: I checked, the number was low, and I could not live with the evidence, so I removed it, and now everyone who saw it knows I cared, which is the one thing the thirst trap was supposed to hide. The deeper fail signal is that your calibration of your own appeal is off, which means the next post will be adjusted to compensate, and over adjusted posts perform worse, which creates a spiral that ends in either a hiatus or a rebrand. The aura recovery is counterintuitive. Do not post again for a week. Do not explain the delete. Do not post a self deprecating follow up.… Deleting a Thirst Trap Due to Low Likes is a internet event in the catastrophic tier, worth -1,000,000 aura points. Compare it with Accidentally Posting a Selfie to Work Slack and Getting Injured Mid-Season, or browse the full aura events index to see where it ranks.