Stupid Questions

"*Oh my God, there's still so many Tweets From the Class and they all think I'm their fucking therapist.*"
―Erik
Stupid Questions is the 23rd Tweets From the Class. It was released on July 15, 2021.

## Summary

Erik watches his subscriber count hit one million and then realizes he doesn't care.

He looks at a bunch of tweets that aren't questions, so he posts a reminder that there are no stupid questions. This causes his students to send him a series of stupid questions. He tries his best to answer them despite how stupid they are. After answering several stupid questions about life and depression, he finally gets to an important one about whether it counts if you shit your pants in your own home. He gets a consensus in a Pavlov, teamkills, and answers the tweet. Then someone asks about Raycon ads so Erik plays one.

One of Erik's students points out the COVID-19 denying community r/NoNewNormal and suggests they raid it. Erik explains that he doesn't want his students to raid things unless he specifically instructs them to. Then he goes back to questions and finds more stupid questions about love and the meaning of life. Finally, Erik finds the question "where's my dad" accompanied by a beautiful drawing of Erik sucking a Popsicle and celebrates that he finally found a good question. He hangs up the picture and answers more stupid questions. He grows upset that his students think he's their therapist

## Comments

*My office doors are now open for any etiquette queries. No such thing as a stupid question, I want to hear what's on your mind!
Sincerely,
Your Loving Teacher*
- @commentiquette

*erik whats the next big meme format*
- @riptor

*I'm sure Disney will astroturf some stupid shit from that new Loki show for all the unfunny people out there who need a madlibs format to come up with anemic jokes that fail to make a single person laugh despite the speed at which they get shared on comedy black holes like reddit*
- Erik

*Hi Erik, how do I comment on a politically charged thread in which I have no interest or stakes in?*
- @ElVarelongo

*Let a bunch of hashtags get you pissed off enough with minimal information and then say the ugliest shit imaginable about the side you didn't arbitrarily pick, then never back down when it turns out you were wrong.*
- Erik

*Hey Salvia, Im about to start college, but before then I have 2 more months at my parents house where I work an awful job at a store where the employees and managers treat me like crap. I feel like its too late to get a new job but I dont want to work there anymore. What do I do?*
- @DityDan

*Stay at the job and spend the next two months talking to customers with a crazy accent, then keep winking at your coworkers while you’re doing it. When your coworkers tell you to stop, insist it’s helping sales and take it to marketing where you have a 50/50 chance of being right*
- Erik

*How do i feel less bad*
- @duel3000

*Get one of those alarm clocks that mimic the sunrise with soothing music. Everybody’s starting their days in a bad mood because they’ve got alarm clocks that sound like air raid sirens. Also it's tough to see the world from the vantage point the internet's given us, so that sucks*
- Erik

*How can I make the sadness go away*
- @Reglitch\_

*Therapist*
- Erik

*Hey professor, my parents are getting divorced and I’m taking it pretty hard. Any suggestions on how I can process my emotions and work through these feelings to best grow from the experience and ensure I don’t relive the mistakes my father made?*
- @grandpatheking

*Tweeting this out and being honest is a fine way to process your emotions, so give credit where due. As for growing, maturity can come from learning to accept change. Remind yourself that change is not the end, and don't let someone else’s mistakes dictate how you live your life.*
- Erik

*My friend @FlonnorMarlboro really seems to think if you shit your pants in your own house it doesn't count. A group of us debated it at length a few days ago. None of us agreed with him. Could you kindly shed some light on the subject? You're probably the only one he'll listen to*
- @CecaeliaSin

*It only kinda counts in the same way your friend is only kinda including fiber in his diet, which is to say not enough to keep him from shitting his pants at home and then leisurely cleaning himself up while erasing the memory from his mind because to him, it never even happened.*
- Erik

*How do we find purpose and meaning? Should we even seek purpose and meaning - is it a distraction from living?*
- @marxismnojutsu

*Purpose and meaning change with the seasons so on the plus side there's always a new set waiting for you in case you missed the last one. Our lives are spent distracting ourselves from living because the act of living is so boring. Try living for the distractions, they count too.*
- Erik

*How do you prove that the universe isn't a simulation?*
- @PartyChihuahua

*Nothing that I feel with my fingers and press beneath my feet can be considered a simulation. If there is code and artificial programming driving our world, then it has transcended simulation and become real. There's no difference between that and what folks will tell you God did*
- Erik

*how do I distract myself from the inevitability of death and the eternal nothingness that follows? It’s keeping me up at night and I’m scared.*
- @sQuibbleable

*Death was what you were before birth, and it'll be what meets you at the other end. Do you seriously want to spend every night in between worried about something that's inevitable? Your ass does need a distraction, get some purpose and meaning and you'll be drowning in pussy bro.*
- Erik

*hey erik, how do you cope with knowing the world is hurtling towards total climate (and arguably sociopolitical) collapse? it's all I thought about at my shitty job today.*
- @intrastell

*Oh that’s easy I just think about how old and senile I’m gonna be when it all goes to shit and I’m like okay so that’s not gonna be MY problem unless reincarnation is real in which case there’s a greater chance I’m coming back as a bug or an alien on another planet so fuck it dog*
- Erik

*How can I feel accepted in society Teach’*
- @helloimaxeleo

*What society? You mean the town you live in? The world at large? The moment you stop giving a shit whether anyone accepts you is going to do wonders for your perception of how much you are already accepted. There's people out there who only like queefs, and they have a community.*
- Erik

*What is the proper question to ask an influencer who asks me to ask them a question?*
- @wheezywaiter

*I dunno I guess ask them some deep existential type question that there's no way they would ever use in the video because it's way too serious and plus it's personal so it'll make the audience feel weird just in case it is used, and then follow up by saying JK after it gets used.*
- Erik

*How do i stop being terrified of everything surrounding me. I'm so anxiety ridden it becomes hard to enforce proper etiquette when i feel like i will be attacked.*
- @aBlookey

*Find yourself in more controlled environments, like a small get-together or picnic, so that you can establish a baseline of calmness before you tackle the big stuff. There doesn't exist a greater relief in the world than showing yourself there's nothing to be scared of, so do it.*
- Erik

## Context

1. ↑ Erik later tweeted scolding his students for raiding r/NoNewNormal against his wishes.

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