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Should I step down as head of twitter
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Yes 420 4.43%
No 69 0.73%
Goku 9001 94.85%
Total: 9490 votes
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Zulily Zoetrope
Jun 1, 2011

Muldoon

PhazonLink posted:

but it literally takes a tiny bit more effort and time to crop and de credit things

cropping and de-crediting the founders of tesla is literally his greatest accomplishment

not sure why he thinks he can recapture the lightning by stealing memes, but my going theory is that he is really stupid

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Castor Poe
Jul 19, 2010

Jar Jar is the key to all of this.

Tea Party Crasher posted:

Elon does this a lot lol. Back when I was writing for Hard Drive we got into poo poo with him because he kept screenshotting articles and then removing the logo+author name to pass it off as a meme he made. When our editor-in-chief called him out he claimed that the jokes actually sucked and if we didn't want them stolen they shouldn't resemble memes. His response might actually be the closest I've ever seen to a funny Elon tweet

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531319938195021824?s=20&t=2PffFRYjeBMogzkuDdMxNQ

Edit: he also deleted the infringing tweet because he's a pussy

Holy poo poo lol

Sanctum
Feb 14, 2005

Property was their religion
A church for one
I wasn't going to be a transphobic racist and drive away advertisers, but then the woke leftist advertisers treated me like a racist so I don't have a choice. I feel bullied, really.

Agents are GO!
Dec 29, 2004

Unperson_47 posted:

Anyone still using Twitter knowing the owner allows and supports this is a poo poo person.

That's dumb, we're well past the point where "the number of users" has a meaningful positive impact on twitter, hell, with all the advertisers leaving, you could even make the case that more people leeching off the site hastens it's demise, or at least costs that Innsmouth-looking motherfucker more money.

In other words, don't delete your account - unless you're famous, because that actually hurts Elon's feelings - make them ban you. Elon is paying money to give us the capability to goatse him.

Frank Frank
Jun 13, 2001

Mirrored
Start cropping musk’s funny tweets and claiming them as your own.



Oh

CatstropheWaitress
Nov 26, 2017

The people* have spoken.

*(who aren't blocked by me, who haven't blocked me, follow me, are online on this given day, who managed to see the poll, who take this poll seriously and don't think I'm just going to go ahead and do this my way regardless)

CatstropheWaitress fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Nov 23, 2022

Tea Party Crasher
Sep 3, 2012

javi posted:

His whole thing is him wanting to be considered funny. He surrounds himself with comedians because he wants to be like them. He also really wants Nathan Fielder to be his friend, and is chasing his approval.
It will never happen though, because he isn't funny, and is really socially awkward.

Maybe you just aren't a sophisticated enough intellectual to get his sense of humor like other middle aged failures

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1594517100839960578?s=20&t=2PffFRYjeBMogzkuDdMxNQ

bobjr
Oct 16, 2012

Roose is loose.
🐓🐓🐓✊🪧

If you had real life people who would salute you and say “epic meme sir” after you posted terrible content, you’d probably lose your ability to tell what is actually funny and good content fast

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




The Postman posted:

if only Elon rehearsed buying twitter for 44 billion...

remember when the story broke a week ago that elon has been lying all this time about having a physics degree?

the first episode of the rehearsal was about him all along. how does nathan do it??

goatface
Dec 5, 2007

I had a video of that when I was about 6.

I remember it being shit.


Grimey Drawer
I would burn it all down because such a life cannot be allowed.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

bobjr posted:

If you had real life people who would salute you and say “epic meme sir” after you posted terrible content, you’d probably lose your ability to tell what is actually funny and good content fast

Brilliant post sir, you are a true genius!

RocketMermaid
Mar 30, 2004

My pronouns are She/Heir.



Stoatbringer posted:

Brilliant post sir, you are a true genius!

55555 golden apartheid emeralds

Tea Party Crasher
Sep 3, 2012

With how often Elon lies and takes credit for poo poo I don't even think those kids are his.

Dewgy
Nov 10, 2005

~🚚special delivery~📦
Is geohot the iPhone hacker who got hired by Apple and then lost the job by forgetting to reply to a “your contract’s up, please let us know if you want to keep working here” email? Or am I getting my nerds with fifteen minutes of fame mixed up.

Roblo
Dec 10, 2007

I posted my food for USPOL Thanksgiving!

Tea Party Crasher posted:

Maybe you just aren't a sophisticated enough intellectual to get his sense of humor like other middle aged failures

https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1594517100839960578?s=20&t=2PffFRYjeBMogzkuDdMxNQ

One hundred and twenty seven thousand people have liked the equivalent of Jorp whining "epic meme sir" at Elon loving musk.

massive spider
Dec 6, 2006


On top of the obvious "accounts who have said something racist" my second thought is that a lot of targeted, personal bullying probably happens on twitter. People making accounts to harass their exes. Kids in school making a fake account to clown on the class victim and so on. Just a decades worth of pent up evil ready to be unleashed.

pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


Roblo posted:

One hundred and twenty seven thousand people have liked the equivalent of Jorp whining "epic meme sir" at Elon loving musk.

3/4 of them are probably bots. Still a staggering number

Beartaco
Apr 10, 2007

by sebmojo

big black turnout posted:

I got a job paying triple my salary and was able to move my kids out of Florida to California basically 100% because of making friends on Twitter and showing my ability, so yeah honestly the "hurr the world is better nothing of value is lost" poo poo kinda pisses me off

You could have done all of that outside of a shity social media platform. Don't tie your accomplishments to a consumer product. Just because it ended up being the means by which you achieved it, doesn't mean it was solely responsible.

Good communities form around all sorts of reprehensible things, it's a fallacy to then go bat for the thing itself rather than the communities.

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

Dewgy posted:

Is geohot the iPhone hacker who got hired by Apple and then lost the job by forgetting to reply to a “your contract’s up, please let us know if you want to keep working here” email? Or am I getting my nerds with fifteen minutes of fame mixed up.

Yes to how he got hired by Apple, didn’t know about why he left, lol if true

Tea Party Crasher
Sep 3, 2012

Elon Musk: Masterful meme sire!

wa27
Jan 15, 2007

Musk is going to mass un-ban a million accounts and then brag that monthly users went up 1% again.

WEEDSMOKER
Nov 18, 2022

by Hand Knit
I wish elon and his kids and ex wives would all just die

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(USER WAS PERMABANNED FOR THIS POST)

WAR CRIME GIGOLO
Oct 3, 2012

The Hague
tryna get me
for these glutes

A large coalition of posters say they do not enjoy my posts

WEEDSMOKER
Nov 18, 2022

by Hand Knit

Trillhouse posted:

oh my god. Elon is the nerd Brenden Schaub.

Talmbout tesla b? great car never burned

Kale
May 14, 2010

Enigma89 posted:

So I guess Twitter is not going to fall apart under its own weight? :ohdear:

Their PR and communications department for any serious business looking to do serious business with the company is literally just Elons shitposting atm.

BigglesSWE
Dec 2, 2014

How 'bout them hawks news huh!

His lawyers must be so loving jealous of Trump’s babysitters who actually manage to control him nowadays.

kdrudy
Sep 19, 2009

wa27 posted:

Musk is going to mass un-ban a million accounts and then brag that monthly users went up 1% again.

And now have a million more assholes telling him how great he is.

Lucky Guy
Jan 24, 2013

TY for no bm

WEEDSMOKER posted:

I wish elon and his kids and ex wives would all just die

i also lust for the death of children, and am completely mentally healthy

Kale
May 14, 2010

Taeke posted:

As much as I adore the genre, scifi attracts the worst people and it's no surprise that nft/crypto bros love the genre. You just gotta accept that 95% of the community is poo poo. The biggest authors are poo poo. Always have been. The Starship Troopers movie isn't poo poo because Verhoeven recognized the source material for what it was and turned it into a satire. Asimov was a sex creep. You can go on and on.

Same with fantasy. It's both wish fulfillment so it attracts the worst people. Authors like Banks and Le Guin are drowned out by those catering to the worst of humanity.
Unfortunately finding the same for other hobbies I used to enjoy more too like anime and gaming. Just seems to attract a lot of shitbags and what I call "censorship bros" that have the impression its supposed to all be specifically for chuddy misogynistists and that's the only context they can view it through

Rigel
Nov 11, 2016

BigglesSWE posted:

His lawyers must be so loving jealous of Trump’s babysitters who actually manage to control him nowadays.

I think he already made sure that his lawyers were hard core

Sylvian Wastes
Jan 3, 2022

by Hand Knit

massive spider posted:

On top of the obvious "accounts who have said something racist" my second thought is that a lot of targeted, personal bullying probably happens on twitter. People making accounts to harass their exes. Kids in school making a fake account to clown on the class victim and so on. Just a decades worth of pent up evil ready to be unleashed.

Yeah, there is a lot of cyberbullying and suicide encouragement on twitter right now that teens engage in. Its a huge problem in queer parts of fandom because artist and writers in those circles get targeted and relentlessly told to kill themselves if they decide to draw 2 brothers kissing. Meanwhile House of the Dragon exists and doesn't get nearly as much vitriol. Its gotten really ugly.

Sylvian Wastes fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Nov 23, 2022

greazeball
Feb 4, 2003



Rigel posted:

I think he already made sure that his lawyers were hard core

Wasn't he basically asking lawyers to send him screenshots of cases they won like a month ago?

Kale
May 14, 2010

The guys very clearly getting lots of bot replies. I see the same copypasta posts in every one of his shitposts multiple times. Reminds me of classic Trump account circa 2017

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy
musks wives and kids cant die before him because i want to see the war over the estate

Flowers for QAnon
May 20, 2019

Sylvian Wastes posted:

Yeah, there is a lot of cyberbullying and suicide encouragement on twitter right now that teens engage in. Its a huge problem in queer parts of fandom because artist and writers in those circles get targeted and relentlessly told to kill themselves if they decide to draw 2 brothers kissing. Meanwhile House of the Dragon exists and doesn't get nearly as much vitriol. Its gotten really ugly.

You pretty much could of chosen any topic as an example, and you went with incest art. Curious choice.

Kingo Ligma
Aug 24, 2019

Ask me about calling people racist because I failed geography.

Sylvian Wastes posted:

Yeah, there is a lot of cyberbullying and suicide encouragement on twitter right now that teens engage in. Its a huge problem in queer parts of fandom because artist and writers in those circles get targeted and relentlessly told to kill themselves if they decide to draw 2 brothers kissing. Meanwhile House of the Dragon exists and doesn't get nearly as much vitriol. Its gotten really ugly.

There are an infinite number of examples you could have chosen for why this is bad that aren't "unlicensed incest porn may be negatively affected". Please log off and put your feet on some grass for a good ten minutes.

koshmar
Oct 22, 2009

i'm not here

this isn't happening

Tea Party Crasher posted:

Elon does this a lot lol. Back when I was writing for Hard Drive we got into poo poo with him because he kept screenshotting articles and then removing the logo+author name to pass it off as a meme he made. When our editor-in-chief called him out he claimed that the jokes actually sucked and if we didn't want them stolen they shouldn't resemble memes. His response might actually be the closest I've ever seen to a funny Elon tweet

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1531319938195021824?s=20&t=2PffFRYjeBMogzkuDdMxNQ

Edit: he also deleted the infringing tweet because he's a pussy

You can't bring this up without the punch line!

https://twitter.com/HardDriveMag/status/1531335346826379266?s=20&t=OB-uICcYWLGOFeIfj4Qv-A

Taeke
Feb 2, 2010


Kale posted:

Unfortunately finding the same for other hobbies I used to enjoy more too like anime and gaming. Just seems to attract a lot of shitbags and what I call "censorship bros" that have the impression its supposed to all be specifically for chuddy misogynistists and that's the only context they can view it through

I've found the trick is to find a community that shares your values first, then look for people that share your interests inside that community. If you go the other way around you just wind up with the worst society has to offer because they're the most numerous.

Stoatbringer
Sep 15, 2004

naw, you love it you little ho-bot :roboluv:

Roblo posted:

One hundred and twenty seven thousand people have liked the equivalent of Jorp whining "epic meme sir" at Elon loving musk.

It's kind of the opposite of a memento mori.

What's latin for "remember you are totally awesome"?

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Sylvian Wastes
Jan 3, 2022

by Hand Knit

Kingo Ligma posted:

There are an infinite number of examples you could have chosen for why this is bad that aren't "unlicensed incest porn may be negatively affected". Please log off and put your feet on some grass for a good ten minutes.

I wasn't talking about porn at all.

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