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EL BROMANCE posted:Not saying I'm suspicious about Twitter story threads (I am), but lots of words and people involve yet nobody thought to take a photo of the insanity unraveling? Much like the story about the cancelled Tomb Raider game that predicted 2020 it’s more about the journey than the destination.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:26
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Nothing on the internet is real so I don't see why that should matter. You're all only even posting because I stopped taking my meds.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:32
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https://twitter.com/babyloveblum/status/1300924634318200837?s=20
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Sep 3, 2020 19:45
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I appreciate a person finding great joy in something mundane. However, I find it difficult to enjoy it with that horrifying anime homunculus onscreen at all times. The way it sometimes doesn’t move at all in response to the person speaking and sometimes moves a lot reminds me of a cheap horror movie scare where the thing in the dark is still and then starts moving very fast. Creepy.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:49
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EL BROMANCE posted:Not saying I'm suspicious about Twitter story threads (I am), but lots of words and people involve yet nobody thought to take a photo of the insanity unraveling? A picture of what, a lorry of rice and some people standing around? It's not really necessary for the story.
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Sep 3, 2020 19:56
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If I ordered some rice and someone turned up with an entire lorry of rice outside my house, I'd probably take a photo that's all. Because it would be pretty funny. But that would rely on an actual lorry full of rice turning up, I suppose.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:04
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I find it best to suspend disbelief and imagine that perhaps a lorry of rice did turn up for the purposes of the story.Ariong posted:I appreciate a person finding great joy in something mundane. However, I find it difficult to enjoy it with that horrifying anime homunculus onscreen at all times. The way it sometimes doesn’t move at all in response to the person speaking and sometimes moves a lot reminds me of a cheap horror movie scare where the thing in the dark is still and then starts moving very fast. Creepy. I also was fighting between "that's kinda funny" and "oh god they're making anime real"
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Sep 3, 2020 20:11
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EL BROMANCE posted:Not saying I'm suspicious about Twitter story threads (I am), but lots of words and people involve yet nobody thought to take a photo of the insanity unraveling? The rice truck is just out of frame, idling.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:12
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The rice truck saga has updates posting right now. It is supposedly happening in India. It is currently 1 AM in India. e: it's still a fun story and IMO qualifies for this thread Azathoth Prime has a new favorite as of 20:25 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 20:21
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Azathoth Prime posted:The rice truck saga has updates posting right now. It is supposedly happening in India. It is currently 1 AM in India. The saga did start 6 hours ago. e: or at least the initial tweets did
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Sep 3, 2020 20:24
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I'm strongly considering making "I don't think that's real" and "you posted a brand" as probatable offenses for this thread. They contribute nothing and everyone already knows that story threads are mostly made up and brand Twitter accounts are run by underpaid depressed millennials who were told to "talk to the kids." Let people enjoy things.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:32
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You need a cosign or a witness or something?
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Sep 3, 2020 20:33
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christmas boots posted:Nothing on the internet is real so I don't see why that should matter. Please start taking your meds again, I can't stop posting. I'm so very tired
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Sep 3, 2020 20:33
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Moon Slayer posted:I'm strongly considering making "I don't think that's real" and "you posted a brand" as probatable offenses for this thread. They contribute nothing and everyone already knows that story threads are mostly made up and brand Twitter accounts are run by underpaid depressed millennials who were told to "talk to the kids." My suggestion that comes from tons of reading the r/relationships thread is to still allow “that’s not real” if there’s some effort behind it. Running in to be like “nah, that’s fake and your dumb for liking it” sucks, but I do enjoy a good post where someone Sherlock Holmes together a bunch of details and explains why it couldn’t possibly be true.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:35
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Good idea.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:39
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https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1301572322839519232
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Sep 3, 2020 20:41
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Jesus Christ, they actually put that Civvie quote that he dared them to put on there. The absolute madmen.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:42
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I can't say I mind complaints about unreality or brands because that's just how some people derive enjoyment. Also they are, yknow, right. Seems wrong to poo poo on people for being less internet poisoned than you to the point they have not yet developed post ironic reconstructivist philosophy on brands and made up poo poo, which is yes it's dumb but I shall cling to this brief, wavering moment of simulated joy from the screen, allow it to stir a flicker of neural activity in the charred, ashen paths of my brain that are rendered numb by the reality of the world and atrophied by the increasing proportion of my neurons devoted entirely to Loss pattern recognition.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:46
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Ugly In The Morning posted:My suggestion that comes from tons of reading the r/relationships thread is to still allow “that’s not real” if there’s some effort behind it. Running in to be like “nah, that’s fake and your dumb for liking it” sucks, but I do enjoy a good post where someone Sherlock Holmes together a bunch of details and explains why it couldn’t possibly be true. The best part of r/relationship was the stuff everyone accepted was fake like the fight guy (before it kinda got old), but the posts where people spend days discussing what they would do while reading over Creative Writing 101 nonsense got so tiring. This thread is for the most part pretty solid and even the fake stuff can be fun, but everything should be questioned as long as it doesn't setup massive derails. It's good to keep reddit level "believe anything that's written down" stuff to Reddit.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:50
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Moon Slayer posted:...everyone already knows that story threads are mostly made up... Ahh man. I posted a story thread once that was genuinely true word for word, and I got tonnes of replies telling me that it didn't happen and I was all, man if my imagination was this good my comedy career wouldn't be wheezing it's dying breaths my guys. That being said, that guy from a while ago who was liaising between some french guys and his brexiteer neighbours was the least happened thing to have ever not happened. Oh god. I'm just as bad as the didn't happen crowd. THE TWEETS WERE COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE.
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Sep 3, 2020 20:53
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Flint_Paper posted:That being said, that guy from a while ago who was liaising between some french guys and his brexiteer neighbours was the least happened thing to have ever not happened. They deleted themselves in shame luckily. But people saw the internet points they got from it, and now we have a million copycats written in the same way. Anyway for content, it's only fair that everything Kylie ever makes is posted because this one nearly got past me and it's great as always. https://twitter.com/deadeyebrakeman/status/1301196903229480960
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Sep 3, 2020 20:55
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Yeah, I'm as lovely a poster as it comes and am guilty on both counts but I see brand engagement in a similar light as copaganda. I don't want to see it and it's good to point out that it's bad. I'll abide the rules but Wendy's slam dunking that burn on McDonald's and the witty retort by coke and Walmart is loving offensive and imo people should be called out for propping that poo poo up. And feel free to hit me with a sixer for being a low content grump, I more than deserve it.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:13
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I mean when’s the last time someone posted brand posts
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Sep 3, 2020 21:14
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Cocaine Bear posted:Yeah, I'm as lovely a poster as it comes and am guilty on both counts but I see brand engagement in a similar light as copaganda. I don't want to see it and it's good to point out that it's bad. I'll abide the rules but Wendy's slam dunking that burn on McDonald's and the witty retort by coke and Walmart is loving offensive and imo people should be called out for propping that poo poo up. I'm sorry, I forgot that someone posting "heh, whoever runs [brand]'s Twitter account made a funny" on the Something Awful Forums was the only thing keeping capitalism from being swept aside in the glorious people's revolution. 
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Sep 3, 2020 21:17
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https://twitter.com/dril/status/1301588345705754624
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Sep 3, 2020 21:22
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Yup, that's exact that I said. Whatever dude, do what you want. I'm not a fan of humanizing giant, evil corporations, but you run your threads in whatever way you think is best.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:23
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Moon Slayer posted:I'm sorry, I forgot that someone posting "heh, whoever runs [brand]'s Twitter account made a funny" on the Something Awful Forums was the only thing keeping capitalism from being swept aside in the glorious people's revolution. 
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Sep 3, 2020 21:28
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Cocaine Bear posted:Yup, that's exact that I said. I mean, you said that someone posting a joke the Steak-Umm's account made was akin to someone posting a "cops should shoot BLM protesters" tweet, which is a very cool and rational and not at all brokebrained comparison to make.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:44
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if you wouldnt kill for brands...end another human's life... forget it... leave this thread... E: i feel the need to specify that this is itself a quote of a Good Tweet, by now deactivated account Mr. Baseball, on April 21, 2015, with the word brands and thread replacing baseball and stadium respectively and should not be construed as an attack or incitement projecthalaxy has a new favorite as of 21:53 on Sep 3, 2020 |
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Sep 3, 2020 21:49
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Moon Slayer posted:I'm sorry, I forgot that someone posting "heh, whoever runs [brand]'s Twitter account made a funny" on the Something Awful Forums was the only thing keeping capitalism from being swept aside in the glorious people's revolution. That may be verging into "enjoying brand tweets is mandatory" territory.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:50
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Not even remotely? What I don't want is someone posting a joke a brand twitter account posted that made them chuckle and then five people posting the equivalent of "how dare you look at a brand's twitter account, you are must love them and want us to as well."
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Sep 3, 2020 21:53
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Yeah, putting a relatable, humanizing front on top of something that's objectively evil is nothing like copaganda.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:54
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Cocaine Bear posted:Yeah, putting a relatable, humanizing front on top of something that's objectively evil is nothing like copaganda.  jesus christ dude get help. For serious, though, I trust the posters in this thread, PYF, and SA at large to recognize that a brand's Twitter account is run by people whose ultimate goal is to sell you the product and to be able to separate the humor they might get from a joke from that fact. Apparently trusting posters not to say "you acknowledge capitalism exists that must 100% support it in every form it takes" was a bridge too far, though.
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Sep 3, 2020 21:58
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Cocaine Bear posted:Yup, that's exact that I said. I agree with you but people are also glad to post things posted by celebrities/sports stars/youtubers/whatever when the entire point of their Sick Tweets is to grow their personal brand as well. The vast majority of tweets done by anyone with a blue checkmark exist entirely to get shared so they are more promoted and get more money. Even if they made a genuinely funny joke they posted it on Twitter to draw attention to themselves because that is the entire point of Twitter's lovely blue checkmark system anyway. Twitter is a horrific monstrosity and interacting with it in any way is quite literally damaging to the world at large, since even normal people using it prop up Twitter's horrific brand and the terrible impact it has had on the world at large. If you're getting sick/angry only by reading Brands instead of the vast majority of any tweet then you're ignoring the real damaging things about twitter in favor of being upset at the most obvious thing. If you hate Twitter and can't stand seeing it then you are about as close to objectively right as you can get and I'd strongly recommend you avoid it wherever possible because you'll be a happier and healthier human being. But as we live in a lovely hellworld sometimes it's okay for people to laugh at a joke made by a lovely corporation, just like sometimes it is okay to see a movie or play a video game despite both also being built around drawing players in and why you have people who will knife fight you in the dark for Nintendo or Marvel or DC or Transformers or whatever. Let people enjoy a funny thing and if you understandably can't enjoy a funny thing with a problematic element then it's probably best not to enter the thread dedicated to posting about that specific problematic thing, much like how I've stayed out of a few threads on this subforum because the humor doesn't outweigh how blindingly angry it makes me to see, say, idiots on social media being horrifying.
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ImpAtom posted:sometimes it's okay for people to laugh at a joke made by a lovely corporation, just like sometimes it is okay to see a movie or play a video game despite both also being built around drawing players in and why you have people who will knife fight you in the dark for Nintendo or Marvel or DC or Transformers or whatever. Yes, thank you, this is exactly what I was trying to say. DERAIL OVER! From now on posts like this are discouraged: Cocaine Bear posted:I love brand. EL BROMANCE posted:Not saying I'm suspicious about Twitter story threads (I am), but lots of words and people involve yet nobody thought to take a photo of the insanity unraveling? I probably won't even do anything about them unless they are particularly obnoxious, just know that they don't contribute anything and make people (me) annoyed.
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Sep 3, 2020 22:04
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Just fork off a Post Good Ads thread, the OP can include those ultraviolent muppet coffee ones.
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Sep 3, 2020 22:04
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I feel a lot of people disagree with your weird ‘you must love all brands and cannot point out obviously fake content’ rule. You are a fairly heavy handed mod, especially for PYF, and you’re getting real defensive about posters disagreeing with your sudden rules changes. Why is that?
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Sep 3, 2020 22:11
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What's the point of being a mod if you don't stick your oar in everywhere you possibly can?
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Sep 3, 2020 22:15
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Captain Monkey posted:I feel a lot of people disagree with your weird ‘you must love all brands and cannot point out obviously fake content’ rule. You are a fairly heavy handed mod, especially for PYF, and you’re getting real defensive about posters disagreeing with your sudden rules changes. Why is that? I cannot wrap my head around how people could think that this is what I'm saying.
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To ban the people whose posting I disagree with or find tiresome, of course!
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