Shitposting is like Zuck wearing a t-shirt and flipflops during meetings with investors and banks. When it's just one person doing that it's great to make you

Shitposting is like Zuck wearing a t-shirt and flipflops during meetings with investors and banks. When it's just one person doing that it's great to make you stand out from the crowd....when it's everybody doing it, then you better wear your black suit and tie like you work at Goldman Sachs and also sport your highest Ivy League vernacular because that's the way you standout from the crowd in such instances. As a society we have not yet reached that crossover yet, certanely SV hasn't... but in certain communities online you see it as begins to happen. There is nothing magic or better about shitposting, it's a way to differentiate oneself from the rest, so it's only natural that when everybody is shitposting you want to do the opposite. It's like Rotschild said. Be fearful when others are greedy and viceversa. Works with social trends such as politics, fashion etc. Do the opposite of what people in your surroundings do and chances are you'll be rewarded if you can hold this behavior long enough. What you don't want to do is give in and abandon your differentiation right when the tide starts turning, like all the guys who bought the very top of the Nasdaq in 1999