Heya!

It's Spring Break and I'm in Singapore and I'm Singa-bored (hehe still got that sense of humour) sitting on my bed. So I thought I'd drop by, say hello, let you know how I'm going to minor in creative writing and I'm mega excited to do that.

Also, New York is full of beautiful boys especially this lad who plays the drums he is beautiful

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I haven't been on Wattpad in ages and I return to find the same old bullshit on this site. Firstly, Zodiac Signs is still the main thing in the random category, I'm kinda over that shit, how many times do you need to be told that you get along with Pisces and Taurus but not Gemini for you to gain the courage to tell your crush you were actually sober when you sent that text?

#CollegeStories
#BlameItOnTheAlcohol
#JokesIAmUnderageWhatIsAlcohol

(While we're at it, can we just take a moment to talk about how ridiculous the drinking age in USA is? Like guys my body is so confused because I keep hopping between different countries and like I'll be drinking in Kenya chillin knowing I'm good I'm good then I go back to the states where I gotta keep my guard up then I go to Canada and I'm one year underage but then I go to Singapore and then...)

Okay I lied. I've never been to Canada.

Not yet, at least.

Anyway, I redownliad Wattpad, log in and see the usual, like thousands of notifications that I attempt to go through before realizing that these notifications happened decades ago and all my readers have grown pubic hair and have gone through menopause by the time I'm returning.

Then I see a notification like:

And I'm like wut, wtf is Tap??

Like the word tap has been frequenting my conversations and it's slightly unsettling hahahha

(Shhhh I'm still innocent shhhhh).

So I'm like DOWNLOAD NOW coz wtf is Tap, why does Wattpad keep trying to be hip

And then I get the app and i open it and BAM a story about a six year old with black pupils who needs to be exorcised and I'm just so confused

Like I didn't ask for this

After furiously tapping every corner of my phone to find the exit button (is that why they call it tap, coz they don't want you to sTAP reading so they make you TAP until you can go...TAPingo...hehehehehe)

Can I just say that Tapingo is the cause for my financial troubles in college? Like having the app and not needing to cue in Starbucks as a result has been spectacular, but like not really when I can't stop using it.

#Idigress

Anyway I try out another story and it's a similar concept. So essentially, what Tap👆🏼 is, is an app where you can read stories that are formed through the medium of text message conversation.

Lol like you're kinda texting yourself, but you're watching other people do it.

Kinda.

I think it's an awful idea.

Okay okay, I've only used it for like five minutes and perhaps there's more to it than I've realized, but right now, in this very moment, with my legs spread wide apart because I'm lying in my room alone and with no one to judge my resting habits, I declare that Tap by Wattpad is a shitty ass idea.

Have any of you used it? What are your thoughts?

*pretends to have listened to your thoughts.*

Well, here are mine.

1. How r u

As if there isn't enough bad grammar on Wattpad already, Tap is giving writers an excuse to write even shittier than they usually do because it's actually in text form now insomuch that people like genie_us can't be on their fucking toes about how they can't write a book in text language because - cue their whiny nasal ass voices - they are writing texts. So much for quality.

Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that I used the word insomuch. You might as well call me Shakespeare.

Genie_ushakespeare.

Genius Shakespeare.

Note: it's not TAPspeare. No. That doesn't even sound right. Nope.

2. Gimme two seconds there's pins and needles in my hand coz I was sitting on it too long

3. You have to keep tapping

People who know me personally know I am the laziest person ever. Like, my roommate knew in like two days of us rooming together.

With laziness comes the utmost and complete reluctance to participate in anything that requires any form of physical exertion, let alone any form of movement. (Obvs except eating lmao bring on the chipotle pls).

And yea I'm on the phone all day texting people but it's a necessary thing, that. Like I gotta pretend I'm drunk to text drummer bae and then say I'm drunk. But, what is not necessary is tapping continuously just to read text messages between parents talking about their possessed six-year-old daughter.

Like I'm not going to keep tapping to read

Hi

Hi

Hi

Hi hru

Idk

Why so awkward

Idk haha

Like listen, okay. When I have conversations like that myself, it's painful. Why the fuck would I wanna read it here?

Lastly and on a more serious note, I find that just like real life encounters and conversations are largely reduced when someone opts just to text it, Wattpad introducing this sends a similar message when it comes to writing. Sure, it's an interesting idea that a story can be told through a text message format, but as with all things, should this concept gain popularity, it really blows for writers who take time to consider setting and physicality and body movement and description and basically writers who take the trouble to really put down on paper enough for the reader to have an almost life-like image of what they read.

It makes writing a Tap 'n' Go situation, just like ordering a caramel macchiato in one click and picking it up and leaving, instead of allowing oneself to actually wait in line and look around and smell the coffee and smile at the barista (who will actually spell your name correctly this time) and looking up to see drummer bae outside, walking into the music building that you're just about to go into, too.

Basically, I've deleted two forms of Tap in my life this Spring Break. Tapingo, because I literally have no money for Starbucks left; and Tap👆🏼 by Wattpad, because a story is much, much more than text messages.

Like come on, writers. Describe to me everything that happens during their first date in detail instead of making me read

Thanks for last night! It was fun

Yea! It was funny how you coughed

Hehehe so embarrassing! C u tho!!

With regards to the third form of tap? Haha, mate. Haha.

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*that moment we all have different meanings for the word 'tap' so half of u are confused and the other half of u think I'm such a hoe😂😂*

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P.S., comment if there's anything you want me to rant about. I haven't been online for ages so y'all are somewhat my watchdogs pls.

But then also I go back to school in two days so I am about to disappear again so nvm

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