What Typing Isn't Made Of

(Documented based on true events)

Take a photo collage. Drop it into the chat.

3 minutes later:

• ESE
• No, SLE
• SEI
• ESI
• ILI
• SEE
• EIE
• LSI, ISTJ, 2nd Quadra
• Gamma values
• Peripheral
• Central
• Intuitive
• Sensing type
• Rational
• Irrational
• That’s a ballerina pose
• That’s an introvert pose
• That’s just a photogenic pose
• That’s Se
• No, that’s Si
• Ti just jumped out the window
• Valued Fi
• Strong Se
• Unvalued Se
• It’s all the Zodiac
• Have you read the descriptions for Cancer?

15 minutes later, the typing begins… by the legs.

"SLEs don’t stand like that." "That’s a ballet thing." "That’s EIE-Tsiskaridze." "They found a Tsiskaridze pose."

20 minutes in, the discussion smoothly transitions into:

• who borrowed 5,000 from whom
• who didn’t pay it back
• who’s a collectivist
• who’s a beggar
• who’s a Te-base
• who’s a "nice guy"
• who’s a toxic prick
• and why LIIs are covered in "archival dust."

Socionics?

Oh, right. It was around here somewhere.

This isn't model analysis.

This is collective divination via coffee grounds, body poses, and the trash can in the corner of the frame.

Everyone sees their own thing. Everyone is certain. Everyone is arguing. No one has agreed on what exactly they are analyzing.

Half the people confuse value with dimensionality.

The second half confuses function strength with everyday stereotypes.

The third half has brought in astrology.

And all of this with absolute confidence in their voices.

This is what I call a "Socionics hen-house."

Lots of clucking. Little systemic thinking. Zero agreement on criteria.

The best part—at any moment you can say: "Program and Vulnerable functions—it's all the same thing."

And no one will even flinch.

Socionics is a powerful model.

But in the hands of people without critical thinking, it turns into:

• "you have intuitive-looking legs"
• "LSEs are 10–15% assholes"
• "Ti is just archival dust"
• "SEEs are Leos by zodiac"

And then someone wonders why I don’t like group discussions at the start.

Because before discussing a type, we need to agree:

What do we actually count as an argument?

As long as the argument is "I feel like" and "SEE vibes"—it’s not typing, it’s a circus.

And yes.

The funniest part.

When a "photo-typer" says:

"This is just a supplementary tool."

And then follows up with 200 messages about legs.

Curtain falls.

Source: S. Ionkin