Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
I’m so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet
same. i’ve been downvoting any posts about him because it’s always some bullshit. it’s never anything good.
This is him getting loudly and publicly booed, which I personally consider good.
The sad part is, I think that’s what he wants. He seems to be a believer in the whole any attention is good attention.
What he wants is immaterial. This isn’t a good sign for him and the BS contrarian “bad things said about or happening to are actually good for instert-right-winger-here” is delusional coping
I saw someone posit that he might have a humiliation fetish. It’s the only explanation I’ve seen that seems rational.
He’s got a sick addiction to playing the heel it seems, except people sort of like heels but musk has get off the planet go away heat.
You don’t enjoy the daily Two Minutes Hate?
Wow. I did not know about that. I understand that 1984 was a major contribution to society, but I have trouble reading because it’s so depressing. I even tried to watch the movie, but couldn’t pay attention for long.
thanks
you got it, dude 👶👍
Yeah, same here, I downvote Musk, Zuckerberg and Trump posts.
Yeah him and that orange one. So so tired.
This addon helps a little bit but it’s not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.
Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw
Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.
Yup. He just generates too many clicks.
that doesn’t make any sense
Don’t let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.
If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing
Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.
Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.
Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?
Definitely rotten veggies over eggs. Have you seen how much eggs cost these days?
Very true. Eggs are a bad idea. Maybe some of that artificial rotten egg smell stuff?
The cheapest dishwashing soap you can find mixed with water, maybe?
Why chant bring back Twitter, I mean if it was rebranded back to Twitter, it’s still owned by Elon and it’s still shit.
The new name alone isn’t what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.
X is modern New Coke. At this point, I’m not even sure which of the worst CEOs I’d compare musk to. He’s like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there’s some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven’t been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.
There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…
A chant with more words becomes a song.
Now a song about how shitty x is, sang by hundreds, like what football fans do, that would be great to hear.
At this moment, I’m staying with my fediverse accounts.
Watching Twitter crash and burn under musk has been so much fun. It being a haven for all the worst dregs of humanity and an advertiser’s worst nightmare is just the cherry on top. Old Twitter before mush for brains musk was still salvageable. He’s somehow done everything to make it worse.
I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it’s such a great idea, that it’s a good chant.
Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It’s just even worse now.
I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn’t make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.
Definitely, that’s the best outcome, and also that’s the least possible one also.
Why they care about twitter
They probably don’t care about Twitter - it’s just a way to insult Musk because he is obviously invested in the"X" rebranding
I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let’s be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol
Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.
It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it’s death is a bad thing.
Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.
I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.
But a lot of people use it to organize.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
What about Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon?
he’ll make exceptions for his own toys.
Nothing > Twitter > X
Let’s bring back Twitter then work on deleting Twitter.
Having X is the fastest way to deleting it. Let it die
But not the best way, since it gives unrestricted voices to horrible people.
I’d rather it has a slow capitalist enshittification, than a fast fascist one.
Let’s keep X unsolved
It’s big brain time
X is more likely to become nothing than Twitter was.
It was awful. This is worse.
Is it worse than tiktok?
the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All sorts of people who don’t know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.
Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.
Agreed. Like, a lot of people bitch about how twitter is a cancer and all of social media.
So…why keep it?
Imo the biggest problem is that it’s way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better
the corporate ownership of formerly-essential social media giant
Savage
The truth hurts.
This case is more like picking off a scab and it’s actually kind of a relief.
If it was legal, Mastodon should just rebrand as twitter.
Isn’t there a decent argument they’ve abandoned the trademark?
No.
Elaboration on the reasons why would be nice.
If it’s still registered you’re going to need to wait far more than a few months before you can assume it’s safe to use.
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/trademark-abandoned-trademark-61426.html
3 years without use according to that reference
Ah, but they would have to sue to enforce it. I’d love to see his mental gymnastics on that one.
Haven’t drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he’s going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They’ll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.
You don’t need drugs when you’re stupid.
But some drugs can affect your intelligence, and if he was intelligent enough to at least lay low and take credit for others’ work before, it appears he no longer has at least that baseline.
It has absolutely nothing to do with drugs. Not even in the slightest. He acted this way before he bought Twitter. He acted this way when he wormed his way into Paypal. This is just his thing. The only difference is people give him attention now. Iron Man, Rick and Morty, and the general Internet praise made him too comfortable.
I think the Rick and Morty joke flew over people’s heads tbh. He’s kinda portrayed as a useless dick, I mean his character just did what he does in real life. Let others solve the problem while he tries to take some or all credit.
Constant praise by sycophants and people wanting to believe in a better future at the hand of high tech billionaires also does the trick. It works like a pump for inflatable egos.
Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.
Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!
“I bring you looooooooooove!”
Do you guys think there’s a part of him that realizes that people dislike him for a legitimate reason? I mean, he started out being the darling of the internet, when he was in the early stages with SpaceX and Tesla. His cult of personality was pretty large. Obviously he still has fanboys, but he has to realize that he ended up on the fringe, right? Right?
No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don’t want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.
I’d take a billion dollars though. Live out my life without ever needing to worry much about anything.
It’s that egotistical need to use that money to exert power to control people that I’m not interested in.
A billion is way too much. 5 to 10 million is all anyone needs to retire. I can see maybe “needing” 25 million if your hobby is racing cars. More than that is just needless hoarding.
Yeah, but in real life I’m Nicholas Cage and I gotta buy a bunch of crazy shit. Couldn’t possibly retire on anything less than $800 million!
I think if it took him as long as it did to figure out people liked him, it’s going to take at least that long for him to realize they don’t.
Then again with the obvious ego boost of the first part of that, the question then becomes: even if and when he does realize it, will he care?
I look forward to the day his story is a cautionary tale.
I would think so. But at this point, he has made his choice. Don’t think a baby face turn is in the cards. Might as well become Emperor Palpatine at this point.
If Musk is Palpatine, then is Zuckerberg Snoke? Does Musk have a jar full of Zucks like in that mess of a Star Wars movie?
Not if he’s surrounded by yes men, which I’m sure he is.
He’s surrounded by his own, privately owned and operated, yes-social media platform
He’s basically Darth Vader at the end of the prequel series.
He knows, and he doesn’t care.
Once he became the richest person on the planet, he stopped giving a shit. Money buys anything he wants, so why should he.
Honestly, as much as I think he’s a db, and i dislike what hes become, I kinda find it makes him more relatable. I mean, who wouldn’t be consumed by extreme money and power? If anything, it distracts from the idea that you’re a giant cash bag and reminds people that you’re only human. Although from what I understand, he always been this way, and he just had a great PR team in the beginning.
With the tantrums he throws, I doubt he doesn’t care.
Pretty sure he employs a meme shitposter group that makes propaganda to make the internet like him.
Good job gamers.
Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he’ll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol
That’d be fun, especially considering that he’ll have to pay big bucks to Tencent, who wholly own Riot Games. All discussion would quickly devolve into a anti/pro China flamewar
I… I miss Geocities.
I MISS GEOCITIES.
Time to put my circa-2001 HTML skills to the test! Anyone got a lead on a good “Under construction” gif? Also who’s got the best guest book add-on these days?
Don’t forget the visit counter!
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How do I make the mouse have trails? I want it to be rainbow trails!
We thought we hated that shit once… then, we realized how much we depended on it. How central it all was.
Rainbows, man. Rainbows everywhere. And tacky MIDI auto-playing from your single-tabbed browser.
Times were goooood.
Frames. Frames in frames in frames.
Definitely use the tags, I’m sure modern browsers still support them.
Oh. My. Gawd.
Check out these if you miss old web
- Melonland forum
- Agora road
They should have rushed him.
Nah. Keep burning it to the ground.
Pretty sure that was his plan from the start.
Oh no, now what is he going to ruin. This man has a “new idea to improve things” everytime a crowd boo’s him
Eh, he also ruins things based on reactions to things he sees on twitter too. And he’s on it all the time. Elon Musk ruining things is basically automated now.
Well, he can’t remove the blocking feature on Xitter anymore to make himself seem popular, he already did that.
I pronounced that “Shitter”. I like it.
Believe it or not, that is the joke
Oh look, another shitter.
:(
Don’t stop him! He’s making the world a solid! He’s eliminating Twitter ffs.
Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.
The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.
It’s entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.
The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.
