A period — usually winter, post-drama, or post-breakup — when someone fully retreats into silent online observation and abandons any pretense of being an active poster. Lurker szn is declared, not arrived at accidentally. You post the announcement, then go completely quiet. It's a season of watchers, when your feed grows but your engagement flatlines. Some enter lurker szn for mental health, others from burnout, and a few just because the timeline has become too chaotic to safely participate in without getting scorched.
It's officially lurker szn for me — I muted everyone and I'm just here to witness.
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