Twitter C/D

that's a good tweet

Socrates was killed because he was an edgelord addicted to irony and he completely wore out his welcome in Athens. To the point they offed him and never looked back or regretted it until the people who actually knew him had passed away and all anyone knew any more was what Plato wrote about him. I gravely doubt bean dad's irony was anywhere near as intellectually excusable as that of Socrates.

thx xp

Ken Jennings podcast co-host... like a week after Jennings made an apology for also being an edgelord?

Would ilx fp socrates now and if so what does that teach us

and then ken came to his defense! ken no why youve got so much to lose

one night last January I walked from watching K3n J3nnings win the goat champs on TV in a bar to chatting to Be4n D4d at a gig before the band came on

eleven months later and bars, gigs, J3nnings, Be4n and chatting have all been #cancelled

Would ilx fp socrates now

sure. he'd get his dozen with regularity and might even accrue enough for a tempban now and then. considering what ilx is, this teaches us nothing. Even St. Francis of Assisi would get fp'ed for being "too sanctimonious".

trying to read this tweet made me feel like a journalist in the san francisco chronicle in 1969 https://t.co/vLuJ62pAEb

— catarina camargo (@catarinacmrg) January 4, 2021

Just as well kenny rogers died, looking at that list sic

i read the bean dad thread this morning and am full of regret, i knew exactly where it was going and read it anyway and was angry at bean dad and myself.

anyway i enjoy watching guys like this flail around which probably makes me a jerk too. i tried 30 seconds of his music and uh no thanks so it's probably no big loss.

you'll know! I'm up for my dream job when this account cease to exist outta thin air

— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) January 4, 2021

Bean dad: this will all blow over, i'm just gonna lay low

NY Times 2043: Bean Dad died peacefully today in his home

— maple cocaine (@maplecocaine) January 4, 2021

Just as well kenny rogers died, looking at that list sic

and Alex Trebek got #cancered flowers are pretty

Fucked up that Bean Dad was teaching his daughter Prussian Blue covers.

I look forward to Bean Dad’s future projects with K4t1e H3rz0g

I sadly had the same thought

I started reading the thread and my eyes glazing over after two tweets, I think Seattle in general had a similar reaction to his run for city council.

Who was the indie rock woman who went alt-right after editing... Penthouse or something?

White Lung/whatever bean dad's band was split 7"

the white lung person is alt-right now? oh well.

So glad that my Twitter's clean.

And hey, I've only used the n-word on this website a dozen or so times. I was young and foolish, still in my 30s!

a child really

I'm glad my AIM away messages arent preserved anywhere

Would ilx fp socrates now and if so what does that teach us

― nob lacks, noirish (darraghmac), Sunday, January 3, 2021 10:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i thought socrates posted here under the username "josh in chicago"

bean dad has strong gen x energy

he was always just being ironic, or didn’t remember what ironic was anymore

“bean dad was the former tour keyboardist for Harvey Danger” kept going through my head yesterday

strong “drummer from gay dad” vibes

makes me wish i been dead

he was always just being ironic, or didn’t remember what ironic was anymore

― mh, Monday, January 4, 2021 10:53 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah that kind of racist/etc satire where you just yell the racist thing to let everyone know you know what racism is and its bad, and then you receive a pat on the head, feel like thats sort of crossover boomer/gen x energy

Its funny to me that "this used to be ironic racism" is enough to cancel some indie rock moron, but not enough to cancel Vice

Like, I guess the upside is that Zoomers might not even know what Vice is to cancel it

isn’t vice just this amorphous media conglomerate now where the former edgelords are like, board members or just dudes that sit in meetings all day

canceling them would be like canceling the entire CBS network or something at this point

gavin mcginnis got pretty canceled over it

I remember a colleague (guy from Arizona) making a joke of this sort in a bar, one with the n-word in he punchline, as he got to the end he realised that another colleague, a black woman from the Caribbean, was stnding behind him listening. He certainly learned a lesson that day, hope it was the right one.

I mean, Vice’s obnoxious edgelord era and their hiring of people you hated in music editor roles is well documented, but I always saw it through the lens of, like, stupid fashion criticism jokes and bullshit I wasn’t going to read

still not sure what garfs are tbh

does it mean those garfield comic gimmick accounts where they always have the same last panel (smoking a pipe, thrown through a window)?

Like, I guess the upside is that Zoomers might not even know what Vice is to cancel it

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, January 4, 2021 8:05 AM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

A friend of a friend is journalist and was writing a piece about climate and young people for vice and was in a school talking to 17/18 year olds and they either hadn't heard of it or thought it was laughable ok boomer shit

yeah that was my guess tho i was unaware there were enough of them to constitute a clique lol xp

fwiw, I'm still amazed Vice got away with that shit as long as they did.

ppl forget how much of the 00s were just a distilled version of the worst tendencies of the 90s

this also continued well into the early 2010s

some of that stuff from the 90s started all the way back into the 80s.

it's continuing now! there's just somewhat more pushback!

no i have good news, it ended in 2015

racism and other societal ills are only allowed on substack now

Even St. Francis of Assisi would get fp'ed for being "too sanctimonious".

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Sunday, January 3, 2021 11:00 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lmao

kinda dig ryan broderick's take

I believe that Twitter is a dying website and that it has entered a period of deep insularity and cultural decline and is now virtually intelligible to outsiders. Put simply, 2021 Twitter is 2015 Tumblr, 2016 Reddit, or 2013 4chan. The only difference is that its hopelessly-addicted user base is made up of journalists, politicians, celebrities, and academics. So we’re forced, as a society, to take Twitter’s inane message board drama more seriously than we would if we were talking about a Something Awful goon building a wildly unsafe house. Toxic Twitter power users have filled vacuums where community moderation should be and now they police the site like warlords, serving up public vigilante justice for their restless and angry followers.

Which is how we end up with Bean Dad.

its been like that for a long time tbf

bean dad prob blew up more than the typical main character just because the name bean dad is so excellent