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Last week, I scrolled upon a tweet that really spoke to me. 

"I think it's exciting that nymag/the cut is going all in on the xojane ‘public self-flagellation via humiliating personal essay' model,” wrote @focusfronting. 

I've written before about this strain of early/mid-aughts writing that seemed to disappear as the d…