---
title: "On imitation"
description: "How does one watch 78 videos about the Bulgarian split squat, and then decide: \"you know what the world needs man... Another idiot explaining the same thing\""
author: "Ghaith Ayadi"
site: "Verbatim"
collection: "Briefs"
url: "https://verbatim.ayadighaith.com/briefs/on-imitation"
date: 2026-10-25
updated: 2026-10-27
---
# On imitation

How does one watch 78 videos about the Bulgarian split squat, and then decide: "you know what the world needs man... Another idiot explaining the same thing"

How does one wake up in the morning and decide to start a social media thing in which they repeat existing information in a less copetent delivery?

Have these people no shame?

The desperate need for attention and praise is intensely repulsive.