Cicada who is going to be a Loan Broker in the upcoming Lending Protocol on the XRP Ledger is following 58 people and has 989 followers. I'm no riddle expert, but can someone with deep expertise please analyze this thang and let me know?

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This is a traditional Chinese cicada toy. Kids have played with it for generations — you spin it and it makes a continuous, high-pitched buzzing sound. That sound is now banned in China. Netizens noticed that when Xi Jinping speaks, his voice has a similar droning, cicada-like quality. So they started posting videos of the toy as a quiet form of mockery. The association stuck. Every video of the cicada toy got scrubbed. I just scrolled through dozens of the remaining clips in a row. One after another, the netizens’ profile pictures simply vanished. Only the last account’s avatar is still sitting there untouched — rock-solid foundation. The system’s “magic clash” couldn’t erase it. This is what peak sensitivity looks like in 2026 China: A children’s toy sound becomes political, and faces start disappearing from the internet.

Best vibes. Rippin cigs in the backyard of a bar in Ft Worth, my only company - about 10 Egyptian fans. Can barely hear the game over the cicadas. America is kinda great sometimes.

On June 15th, wind and morning light, birds and trees, with the splendor of summer flowers and the joy of cicadas chirping, slowly spread out. A new week, may you go as your heart wills, and be at peace with whatever comes your way.

🇯🇵 "One Million Yen Girl" from 2008 really takes me back. I love the shots of the Japanese summer with green fields, cicadas in the air, sunlight and the whole pre-smartphone vibe. It's so perfectly quiet.