smallchou.com/blog

just a few minutes ago, while sitting in the new cafe on campus eating breakfast, i overheard the following comment (verbatim):

a breakfast burrito is amazing because… like… like… like… [as everyone at her table sat waiting in anticipation] it’s a meal that you can eat with one hand

i had to look over just to see the source of this comment and wasn’t surprised to see the commenter eating her breakfast burrito with… wait for it… two hands.

that got me thinking: the number of “likes” you use in a sentence needs to match the gravity and insight of your comment… or else you end up coming off a little airheaded. in fact, the correlation is more than linear. if you use one “like”, you’re probably ok with any average comment. once you get to two likes, you really have to say something of tremendous insight. once you get to three likes? your comment needs to be pretty earth-shattering.

the breakfast burrito as a meal that you can eat with one hand? probably not earth-shattering. but hilarious.