It’s true. Coolness thrives on mystique, scarcity. Clout is the opposite and the two forms of social currency cannot coexist.
― treeship., Friday, 15 January 2021 03:58 (three years ago) link
v hard to be cool while imploring your audience to subscribe to your channel and smash that like button before playing a song you're still working on
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, 15 January 2021 05:30 (three years ago) link
as long as the 'gram exists, twitter will be cool, at least in a relative sense
― cerebral halsey (rip van wanko), Friday, 15 January 2021 06:35 (three years ago) link
It has the time, it has the powerIt's yet to have its finest hour Twitter
― Mark G, Friday, 15 January 2021 07:32 (three years ago) link
Had to go w/ 2015 because of indexing, "enhancing" the algorithm, and ditching the fleeting, dissolving character all together.
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 15 January 2021 09:46 (three years ago) link
media twitter killed it
― Washington Generals D-League affiliate (will), Friday, 15 January 2021 10:15 (three years ago) link
It's nice to go into a cave full of shrieking bats, but only for a few minutes.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:34 (three years ago) link
cave full of shrieking bats is otm. it isn't always my twitter experience, but when it is, i know it's time for a break.
― map, Friday, 15 January 2021 18:44 (three years ago) link
I love following people from Australia and England who are outside of our political context. Brexit talk is so soothing to me.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:51 (three years ago) link
Outside your political contesxt, I think you mean.
― Waterloo Subset (Tom D.), Friday, 15 January 2021 18:54 (three years ago) link
This is not cool?
2018: Deepfakes could seriously destabilise global politics in the coming years and we should be alert to the dangers of disinformation spreading at a faster rate than ever before. 2021: … pic.twitter.com/JLl8NgoQrA— Pete Fraser (@petefrasermusic) January 15, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 January 2021 19:06 (three years ago) link
there is still a lot of funny and clever stuff on Twitter
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
i love that Wellerman vid
i enjoy Twitter
i like things
― Un tranquillo posto di scampagna (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 January 2021 19:42 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_OXAOILYq0
― Looking for Cape Penis house (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:06 (three years ago) link
who are the ppl being faked there?
― shivers me timber (sic), Friday, 15 January 2021 20:11 (three years ago) link
Just 4 lads I think:https://thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026
― woof, Friday, 15 January 2021 20:53 (three years ago) link
i don’t get the shrieking bat cave thing anymore. at one pt i felt an obligation to stay on top of the discourse and follow a certain core set of highly central accounts in politics media twitter, but there’s actually no reason to do that. the side effect is im rarely more than tangentially aware of what the main character of the day is. like i only saw passing reference to the fact that other people were tweeting about something to do with a bean dad, i never saw anything g directly about it and still haven’t looked it up
i always thought that “hell site” was something that big accounts said because once u got to a certain level of followers u start to get the attention of nazis and your tweets gets RTd and dunked on by random communities, and then smaller accounts just started parroting it unthinkingly even though essentially no one interacts with them and they can perfectly customize their experience
― flopson, Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
the thing is that people are just as hateful to one another in real life, and the attribution of it to twitter is 100% due to people not wanting to face that fact
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:21 (three years ago) link
ironically the "I'm not reading all that but I'm happy for you or sorry that happened" probably reflects the average person's amount of actual care for everyone else in his or her life, but because it's twitter it's twitter's fault
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
xp not, imo, a fact
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:25 (three years ago) link
im probably meaner to ppl on ilx than twitter, and irl i recoil in horror and lose sleep if i ever say anything even borderline misconstruable as impolite
― flopson, Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:29 (three years ago) link
if you're mean to people online that still counts as being mean to people, sorry to inform you
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:36 (three years ago) link
not what was said tho
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:37 (three years ago) link
im meaner to ilxors irl fwiw
it's exactly what I said; people compartmentalize being mean online as not being mean, and then blame it on whatever online service it is
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
i usually regret being mean on ilx. usually i just don’t look at the thread for 2-3 days
― flopson, Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:44 (three years ago) link
the thing is that people are just as hateful to one another in real life,
Not, imo, a fact, and exactly a quote of what was said
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
what I meant is that people do not become less hateful to one another just because the medium changes
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:48 (three years ago) link
i think that's fair enough but i do think the medium matters or changes things in ways which makes it very difficult to be sure about any big statements sometimes?
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
I think that's something that's probably open to serious challenge
xp
― k3vin k., Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:50 (three years ago) link
xp may have read that wrong tbh
If its "people dont behave any differently" then ime thats not right
If its "the same behaviour is no different just because of the medium" then it's up for debate
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 January 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
i love that Wellerman vidi enjoy Twitteri like things
― brimstead, Sunday, 17 January 2021 00:43 (three years ago) link
like for instance today the Designated Wrong person was someone who said that Disney IPs were for children and people shouldn't like them. every other day the Designated Wrong person is people who watch Disney IPs. the only constant is hatred of people.
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 17 January 2021 01:00 (three years ago) link
"Designated Wrong person" is not a thing that exists
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 17 January 2021 01:27 (three years ago) link
And Disney ips are for children
― Fenners' Pen (jim in vancouver), Sunday, 17 January 2021 01:31 (three years ago) link
Even searching Twitter for Disney I have no idea what that refers to
I do see tweets like this and they're correct that the Aristocats are cool
Disney + has these super cute little mini docs. On one, a Pixar script supervisor is talking about how she noticed that their movies were heavily weighted towards more male characters, and male characters having more lines...— Ashley Nicole Black (@ashleyn1cole) January 16, 2021
― Joe Biden Stan Account (milo z), Sunday, 17 January 2021 01:32 (three years ago) link
oops like this
Who needs "That Cats Movie" when The Aristocats exists#Disney #TheAristocats pic.twitter.com/YxcoIQTHhU— Movie Madness (@CinematicAppeal) January 16, 2021
“Designated Wrong person" is not a thing that exists
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, January 16, 2021
...except on ilx and all other social media
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 January 2021 01:51 (three years ago) link
wow wrong again
― boz conspiracy by toby hus (voodoo chili), Sunday, 17 January 2021 02:13 (three years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Sunday, 17 January 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
Denigrated wrong person
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 January 2021 02:19 (three years ago) link
― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, January 16, 2021 8:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
"the main character," whatever, but it is a thing that exists
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link
the tweet I was referring to -- I don't agree with the rest of the thread, but "you are choosing to give a corporate entity your creative energy" is a sentiment expressed over and over during the "if you disliked that martin scorsese movie but like the marvel cinematic universe you are bad and wrong" cycle and accepted as the self-evidently correct take that if you disagreed with you deserve to be mocked forever. but now it's self-evidently incorrect
"Fanfic is collaborative" "it's about community" nah sorry it's all corporate IP. Ultimately, someone else legally owns it, and you are choosing to give a corporate entity your creative energy.— RS_Benedict (@benedict_rs) January 16, 2021
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:06 (three years ago) link
like if you're going to tell people they're horrible people for doing/thinking something at least just make up your mind on what you need to not do to be horrible
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:07 (three years ago) link
At least it changes every day tho
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:08 (three years ago) link
Lot to be said for that
maybe different people think and are saying different things, can we get a spreadsheet
― shivers me timber (sic), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:09 (three years ago) link
Jayslack.cls
― spaghetti connemara (darraghmac), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:11 (three years ago) link
Dmactypos.ffs
I mean no, there is not a lot to be said for that, because I never know what is and is not the right thing to do and think among morally neutral things, like being a marvel fan
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Sunday, 17 January 2021 03:13 (three years ago) link