It’s a bittersweet weekend over on Bluesky, where one of the platform’s most unforgettable accounts has vanished—though maybe not forever.
The account, known simply (and ominously) as The Louvre of Bluesky, earned a reputation for striking fear into the hearts of bad posters everywhere. Sure, it shared its own commentary and clever jokes. But what really made it legendary were the screenshots—those perfect, damning captures of unhinged posts that revealed the platform’s strangest instincts.
It’s tough to write a real tribute now that the Louvre is gone. There’s no easy way to catalog the many shades of internet weirdness it chronicled over time. If there was one through-line in the posts it saved, beyond the frequent failure to understand a joke, it was that familiar scolding tone—like the author couldn’t stand the idea that someone, somewhere, might be having a little fun online.
Maybe I’m reading too much into an anonymous screenshot account, but it always felt like an antidote to the endless takes about Bluesky being a predictable echo chamber. The Louvre wasn’t someone who popped in for five minutes just to confirm their biases and crank out another identical op-ed. Whoever ran it knew the site inside and out. They understood how wonderfully—and sometimes painfully—bizarre Bluesky’s users could be.
At times, the account also felt like a reminder: any of us, at any moment, could post something so clueless or embarrassing that we’d end up immortalized in a screenshot. Just knowing the Louvre was out there lurking was enough to make me (well, occasionally) reconsider a dumb reply before hitting send.
So what happened to it? According to a post on Patreon, the creator took the account down “temporarily” because, in their words, “a loser and a coward” emailed their employer—and their spouse’s employer, too. They admitted they’re “not sure if the account will stay closed.”
That’s not much to go on. Like a lot of people, I’m hoping it will return. But even if it doesn’t, its spirit will keep haunting Bluesky, a quiet warning that we’re all just a few keystrokes away from becoming someone else’s cautionary tale.
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