No One Can Hear You Scream – The Weird Side of the Internet
Written by Staff on January 20, 2025
No One Can Hear You Scream – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
Did you ever want to just scream? I mean really scream, like scream your favorite songs, your dirty secrets, or just scream guttural or cry out your rage or just cry for help. I mean, we don’t do it, right? Okay, maybe singing our favorite song at the top of our lungs in the shower, especially if we’re confident and we live in our own house surrounded by a couple of acres. But even then, we know someone could hear us, like a lost hiker or a cattle rustler, maybe a burglar?
But what about secrets? That fantasy you wish you have the nerve to look up on your favorite porn site, or the truth about the company Christmas party? Maybe you have super unappealing ideas you want to put out in the world. Those are harder, right? I mean, you may be alone in a house, surrounded by a few acres, but someone could still hear. A lost hiker or a cattle rustler or a suspicious spouse.
So there’s this guy named Luke, a school music teacher in Seattle, goes by @sailingsongbird on TikTok. And once a year, he can truly say what’s on his mind. Out at sea.
Luke takes a 27 foot sailboat out across the Pacific, three-thousand miles, and there’s a point at which he is guaranteed to be a hundred miles from the neaest human between Tonga and New Zealand.
Luke has admitted he likes to scream for help, knowing no one can hear him. He does ity on the flat sea days, because I imagine that screaming for help on a day of rough seas, knowing no one will answer is an existential treat.
Now I’m wondering what it’s like to scream for help when you know damn well it’s impossible for anyone to hear you. Not that it’s unlikely, or that no one who hears you will help. But to scream that into the void like that.
He also paddle boards.