abolish ice-t
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
i follow like 1.5k, totally disregarded the ‘follow less than you’re followed by’ advice
― flopson, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
^ total feeb moveI’m not going back, all my posts from now on will be Nintendo Switch screenshots
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
this is the only good meme
😂 😂 😂 pic.twitter.com/6CWwDMJPcL— Dolly Parton (@DollyParton) August 20, 2018
― voodoo chili, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 03:21 (five years ago) link
hero
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 04:09 (five years ago) link
― flopson, Tuesday, August 21, 2018 11:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
😳 i only follow ~400 ppl
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
I follow 666 ppl and have been keeping that way for awhile. Can't add anyone w/o dumping someone first.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 06:04 (five years ago) link
memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:28 (five years ago) link
when i quit twitter i only followed 200 people, it still sucked
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:28 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i hate these especially whenever they require a bunch of media people to talk about how smart they were as children or whatever
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
really the problem is media and not twitter itself maybe but... media is so much of it from my experience
if that ("media") is who all these random people are then i would agree with that. i don't know who they are, do not recognize their names, it's just oh this random person is telling me how to hurt their feelings (or whatever) and now I am supposed to what -- laugh? i can't
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:38 (five years ago) link
it's probably safe to assume that me complaining about twitter = me complaining about my career and/or me complaining about the way people talk about politics and swarm around political news there
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:42 (five years ago) link
also i haven't used it in three years, so idk why i feel the need to say it sucks all the time, other than my experience of it from 2013-2015 was like 80 percent negative and i can't imagine it's gotten better
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
anyway sorry for my routine myopic outbursts itt
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:44 (five years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:28 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 16:53 (five years ago) link
The key to enjoying Twitter (to the extent that it is enjoyable) is to participate as little as possible and passively observe people engage in psychological self-harm to amuse you while you wait in line for a few minutes or whatever. The constant spectacle of people shouting into the hurricane force winds of the “discourse” (all the while, all good intentions aside, just adding to the noise) is instructive as well. This applies to all social media, to varying degrees, but Twitter is premised on a kind of total participation of everyone in everything that is especially brain melting if you try to do anything other than just passively observe it or have one of those accounts that just seems to be in oblivious conversation with itself.
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose. there isn't that much hooting and hollering on my TL, at least not to the point where I have to eject. But I'm not on it for extended periods of time ever. I understand that many people have a hard time with social media because they either can't do it at all or when they do it they're completely addicted to it. A friend of my mine had to delete her account because she wouldn't be able to look away from Twitter until she read every single tweet that was new. A lot of my friends are that way. Most of the people I follow are either musicians, filmmakers, writers, critics, friends, or publications/websites/companies like Criterion, Kranky, Bandcamp, et al. It's nice.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
Here's how little Twitter cares about their platform being gamed:- Inform Twitter exec of accounts falsely representing NC and various NC municipalities- Twitter exec ignores tip, instead asks "Why don't you start a competitor?"- Two weeks later https://t.co/UqJJzDBfPb pic.twitter.com/zAmruXSjVN— geoff golberg (@geoffgolberg) August 22, 2018
― Eliza D., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose.
I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!
It was inspired by a few tweets I saw that started with "me during sex: [variant on "hurt me"]" followed by something they found emotionally wounding. Not funny imo and way too tmi for me even if it were funny, which I don't believe it is. Someone else upthread referred to it as the "hurt me" meme; when I saw it originally, I didn't realize it was a meme until I saw a few different variants. Usually if something annoys me in that way I just don't look at it for a while and it is gone the next time I look.
Everyone has a different use for twitter afaict. I assume someone somewhere finds the "hurt me" meme very amusing. Some people enjoy oversharing. /shrug
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
I mean I don't do them off alt because of work but twitter memes are one of the few bright spots of twitter
the best way to use twitter is to selectively copy-paste the good tweets into group chats
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:32 (five years ago) link
two things i have learned from twitter
a) a lot of people are really sad/in need of attention and/or validationb) a LOT of people are REALLY funny
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 18:54 (five years ago) link
not even catalogued here
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 19:55 (five years ago) link
be less literal
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:21 (five years ago) link
i mentioned MSN Messenger in a tweet and there's a Michael Jackson fan who searches "MSN Messenger" and replies with a video of his monitor as he uses an MSN Messenger clone
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:26 (five years ago) link
naturally
― a roomba of one's own (rip van wanko), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
jolene was distracting boyfriend since before those stock photo teens were born (probably?) that's what i am saying -- not that anyone had used jolene in that meme because lord knows i couldn't keep track of that nor would i care to
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
dolly used that meme
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
for jolenelike yesterday
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:03 (five years ago) link
i know
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
im so confused loooool
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
Lechera, no disrespect, but you seem to completely misunderstand what is going on in the hurt me meme!
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
it's not at all about oversharing
the joke is about the misunderstanding of the request "hurt me"
the person wanted to be hurt physically for sexual pleasure.
but the other person hilariously misunderstood and did something to hurt them emotionally.
it's all right there in the text.
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
i totally understand thatand it remains unfunny to me
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
great post seemingly misunderstood by everyone itt
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:30 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
adults whining about growing up as ~gifted children~ is really something, what dumbasses
― sprout god (lag∞n), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
― Je55e, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 21:56 (five years ago) link
I get the meme and still havent seen a funny one. and I like memes!
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link
je553 i understand it and have understood iti just don't find it funny and would rather not discuss it further. kindly give me the benefit of the doubt for having my own informed opinion.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
either you like this kind of millennial gallows humor or you don't, neither's better than the other
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
#BragAboutYourGeneration is catching up with gifted children as the most annoying thing on Twitter
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:36 (five years ago) link
I did wonder if LL was being arch about Jolene but tbh her v confusing reading of the "hurt me" joke, of which I have also not seen a version I found funny, threw me
in apology, have this answer record to Jolene (embed should start at 5:23)
https://youtu.be/kjXRJt-_znI?t=323
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Wednesday, 22 August 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
Depends who you follow I suppose.I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
However much white noise there is, it hasn't been enough to stop connection forming. In my time I do see micro-communities (via group chats and the like) that develop when a few people find each other on twitter - and I reckon many of these then transfer to the real world connections so I am not sure it works as you say.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:26 (five years ago) link
to clarify we did not meet on twitter, and at this point most people in it either don't use twitter or have it write-only. in my experience micro-communities do not form on twitter (or other social media) but are reflections of what exists in the real world already. which is what people don't understand about @ replying and why it usually isn't wanted
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Thursday, 23 August 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
I am sure that much of it is a reflection of the outside world but I have seen people from different places but similar interests forming connections.
Besides, twitter allows you to restrict your notifications to see replies by mutuals only so that aspect is covered, for the most part. I see the fact that many don't do it (despite knowing of it) means that they are looking to hear others' points of view (although you often see people's patience being tested).
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 23 August 2018 14:17 (five years ago) link
"hurt me" meme always reminds me of this (which i actually think is fairly funny)
http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/comics/2012-07-13-Happy-Ending.png
― Je55e, Thursday, 23 August 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
i... i... bought it
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1724941682
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 23 August 2018 15:59 (five years ago) link
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― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 23 August 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link