i guess you'd have to cite examples but to me the art part of PBF is a great element of the overall presentation but not really integral to the joke.
meanwhile I think most UtilityLimb tweets are unfuckable for those reasons, but some of those comics seem like they'd work with better art
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's fan art
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
that's why it's bad
sorry but great tweets lend themselves to overthinking.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
also most of those comics are from the bad part of weird twitter thats all favstar 18 yr olds just rearranging the same set of tropes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
more like [dad|weed|hitler|piss|dog|teens|boner] twitter
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
ok ok okok
― sleepingbag, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
ilx not a fan of twitter the comic the tumblr
― sleepingbag, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
this is almost entirely a verbal joke. it's a verbal joke about an image, but the verbal turn is what gives it the action, or actually the multiple verbal turns, in the shift from direct address to action, and then the shift from craning to unscrewing, etc. the way it builds up the gag is all about how those few words are chosen. and how does one draw a "mystery" anyway?
― s.clover, Monday, March 4, 2013 12:55 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this otm
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
its like dont u know how to read, why do u need to see pictures of joeks
― max, Monday, March 4, 2013 1:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
wait there's another part to weird twitter??
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
the goons who came up with those tropes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
those dudes are virtually indistinguishable from the 18 yr olds and/or just tweet about israel all day
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
eh not to put too fine a point on it but i think there is a vast difference between e.g. patricia lockwood and the million people who adopted the "sext tweet" format after her
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
noted somethingawful goon patricia lockwood
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
who is actually humorous on "weird twitter?" dril and utilitylimb and patricia lockwood are funny but like i followed rare_basement for a minute and it's just a menagerie of retweets from guys with "dudehugs420boner" names that are almost staggeringly unfunny
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
seems like it's a ton of, yeah, "favstar 18 yr olds"
the secret is that 'weird twitter' is never humorous as you experience it in the present
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
like if a dude has >5,000 tweets then like 4990 of those are guaranteed garbage, and the other 10 are on favstar
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
kind of the impression i got but hey most of the "weird twitter" guys that follow me are old men posing as adult babies and shit like that so
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, twitter is full of that sort of noise, you have to learn how to manage it xp
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
you can manually turn off retweets by certain ppl u follow, iirc. that helps.
also, it's v v wise to block people who are sucky and bad so they don't unexpectedly get retweeted into your timeline.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:25 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is why utility limb was so good because of the insanely high consistency of good tweets
― plax (ico), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
rare_basement is the queen of the favstar crew
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
bandit, dril, fart, dogboner, pupy are all (iirc) ex-boons. lockwood and notopoulos arent but theyre not favstarcrewe
i mean i get that theres not really a distinction but
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
like hell-homer and that map of weird twitter. all taht shit is like high schoolers on favstar
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
i want twitter accounts that are all performance, i get so bored when people are also just using their twitter as well. bandit stopped doing it really fast but even graey alien does it a bit
― plax (ico), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
graeyalien's cut down on it, he used to treat it as a "normal" twitter account with added joeks a lot more
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:50 (eleven years ago) link
i always think of graeyalien as a she
― plax (ico), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link
yeah but its graeydave now isn't it?
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:59 (eleven years ago) link
that tumblr is really good if you ignore the comics
― This is called money bags. (zachlyon), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
― max, Monday, March 4, 2013 6:31 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark
yah it just seems like a weird thing to police
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
well it is WEIRD twitter
― max, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
aROOGahh
http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/031.jpg
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
what is ed balls
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.dailysquib.co.uk/thumbnail.php?file=/Ed_Balls_360_852191685.jpg&size=article_medium
Ed Balls accidentally put his name into the tweet box instead of the search box so he tweeted 'Ed Balls'. Made famous by the twitter maoist wing of weird twitter.
― oppet, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
ah just doing him job i guess
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
Matt @power_crystalsHey anime Marxist care crew: unlike fantasy sports wang joke crew, the twitter people actually want to hurt you: #tcot. Yell at them instead
weird twitter beefing
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
yeah what is going on there, i keep seeing people alluding to that thom guy and some kind of "what happened was FUCKED UP" but nobody actually clarifies what that is, i'm just assuming it has to do with @pontifex until further notice
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
this has maybe something to do w it
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irl@dongstoevsky the "joke" was that goons are gross regardless but it was widely reviled and i got put on The List
1 hr Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irl@dongstoevsky 2 years ago i said that troons weren't particularly attractive no matter what they identified as /transitioned to
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irlmuch like 9/11 this hoax just went too far!!!
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irlweird twitter drove away a guy for distributing nudes of other posters; anime dog twitter celebrates a rapist whom they made their queen
???
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irl@fairyocarina aimee / moewytchdog sexually assaulted multiple people don't be mad at me for pointing it out
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irlson i beg you to please get off tumblr for just one hour UH FIRST OF ALL "DAD" IM NOT YOUR "SON" I AM A GENDERLESS VAMPIRIC TRANSASIAN
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
hacked?
http://i.imgur.com/JpIaBMD.png
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irli know that a lot of you are probably steamed at me but i wanted to see at least one person say they were glad it happened
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irllol im sorry you guys. this has gone too far. its me amanda. thank you for your support
flowchart.pdf @cheadlmao @ denouncing @a_girl_irl getting hacked. He's a shitpile who gives a care rest in piss fucker Retweeted by DARRYL ANDREWS
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irlemail password isn't the same as twitter password i guess he's not completely stupid
Amanda Hugankiss @a_girl_irlnice password shitlord
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 12 March 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
anyway