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What is the meaning of this quoted tweet?

> “i am selling six beautfiul, extremely ill, white horses. they no longer recognize me as their father, and are the Burden of my life.”

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It's hard to be precise. But I think the point here is to paint a picture of a man who has embarked on a substantial enterprise (owning beautiful white horses) with an unrealistic dream of how it would turn out (they would recognise him as their father), has failed completely (the horses are extremely ill and do not recognise him as their father), and now wants to abandon the whole thing (by selling them) while refusing to contemplate his own role in that failure (they are the Burden of his life).

It's an impressionist portrait of naivité, narcissism, incompetence, and irresponsibility.

Just a rather weird one.

Thanks for the deep reading!

It's not about the meaning, more about the vibe and how the vibe is delivered. Just read those tweets as you would read a collection of poems. While poetry more often try to give a feeling of beauty, dril tweets are mostly to make you feel funny or laugh.

It's a story in a tweet; if you don't know Dril too well he plays a character who is self-absorbed, reckless and prone to ridiculous endeavours. In this case "Dril" had some spurious fantasy of mastering six white stallions, he was too incompetent to care for them, they are now dying and all he can do is complain that they won't obey him.

You understood it correctly

Which is to say you did not understand it

If you’re looking for meaning in @dril tweets you’re going to be frustrated or disappointed.

That's not true in my view: the "candles" tweet is about mocking people who refuse to fix their obvious problems, the "hand it to them" tweet is disapproving of people who platform Hitler out of openmindedness, the "buddy, they won't even let me fuck it" is about self-importance and convincing yourself you're normal. Basically "it would be funny if there were a guy this wrongheaded because it exaggerates something recognizable".

I figure this one makes sense to people who understand it's making fun of a 1700s type of guy, perhaps "what if Thomas Jefferson was on Craigslist?"

My point was that if you read these tweets and don't just "get it" then you're not going to be get much out of having any of them explained or by closely examining them. I know that's the case for most humour, but IMO it's particularly true of @dril

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