There’s a performance expected now. Even in commercial pleasure. We’re expected to say the right things. Find the clues. Read the cues. Build something that looks like intimacy. Smile. Engage. Respond. All the while, manufactured connection becomes choreography. Desire becomes work. Not everyone wants that. Some people are tired of being pretend seen. Tired of being evaluated. Of being asked to show up as a version of themselves. This isn’t that. There’s no script here. No ch