(This post was originally published on 📝Ghost Influence on January 28, 2016.)

Internet traffic and Soylent Green are both made of people.

Last night, a social manipulation more than two weeks in the making finally came to a head in the most spectacular of fashions. Proof that the Internet is made of people.

The funny thing about having a deep and meaningful conversation in a public space — the more people want to join in and contribute.

I'd just like to take a moment and restate the fact that this entire discussion took place in the comments of a paid Facebook ad. Engagement is the new content.

TL;DR — someone on the Internet apologized to me, we're friends now