Claps Stress Me Out

Cee R.
4 min readNov 17, 2021

A response to ‘We’re Living Through a Clap-Drought’ and how some disabilities can make Medium’s clap feature more difficult than you’d think…

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Warning: this post discusses Anxiety & its affects

The talented Jacob Flanders wrote an interesting story recently, encouraging people to clap! clap! clap! on Medium:

Which — if you’ve been on Medium for more than 5 goddamn seconds, you’ve probably heard something about claps.

They’re like applause-o-meters, basically.

Everyone has their own theories of when to clap, when not to clap, how many claps appease the all-holy algorithm, etc.

And everyone, therefore, has their own expectations on the social etiquette of claps.

And people can get… a little intense about it. Sometimes.

I’m happy to say that Jacob Flanders isn’t one of those intense people.

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr