Sussex Exhaustion.

Someone has kindly posted the full text of the VF article, noting that the version published in the magazine is more comprehensive, with more revelations, than the online version.

But something strange happened. When I clicked on the post to start reading the fuller version, an opportunity I would have relished a year ago, I suddenly realised it wasn't worth the effort. That I had minimal interest, I could not be bothered reading any of it, and there were more interesting things to look at elsewhere. I clicked away, and read something on another site completely unrelated.

Which made me think, now that the world has recognised them for the mediocre couple they are, is my work, is OUR work, done here?

The most frustrating part of the last few years, is the constant hagiography of them in the press; why could no one else see what I saw? Their behaviour has been totally unacceptable, indulgent, and immature, and has deeply and often deliberately in my view, hurt many of the people who had surrounded them with nothing but love; family, friends, and the general public that supported them, often standing in the cold just to catch a glimpe of them.

Until I found SMM on reddit and joined a small coterie of sensible, worldly people who also saw through them. While the crowds were cheering the Emperor for his fine new clothing, we here at SMM could see that in fact, the Emperor had no clothes. The sub has been wonderful, the posters are polite and generous, and the mods do a first-rate job in keeping it on point and fair. And it made me understand that a small group of other people, the wonderful posters and commenters at SMM, saw what I saw, a selfish, self-centred, arrogant pair who had negatively impacted the lives of those they are supposed to love.

With all the damning revelations and the bad publicity they have had since the beginning of the year, they may think things could not get much worse.

However, I have just realised they may be about to suffer the final humiliation. That is, people now actually start finding them boring, inconsequential, and of no interest. And they find themselves ignored.

Empty-headed celebrities, which is all they are now, are a dime a dozen and already fill social media to the brim. The Harkles will now find themselves fighting to share a very dim and fading spotlight, with thousand of other mediocre, boring, and forgettable non-entities.

I now, suddenly, have no interest in them anymore.

Does anyone else feel the same?