Kudos Beggar Ass

This ass finishes a run, posts it, and likes it themselves, immediately, to get the ball rolling, as though their own approval were a starter pistol for everyone else's. No kudos goes unreturned, because kudos is a currency and they are quietly running a central bank. They will thumbs-up a stranger's warmup jog purely to trigger the reciprocity reflex. The miles matter considerably less than the little digital fists of solidarity they generate. It is not vanity, exactly. It is a carefully managed economy of mutual applause, and this ass is its most tireless participant, liking, always liking, forever priming the pump of their own gentle acclaim.