Elon Musk

I mean that's true, people don't tweet all that much

the idea of a comment is pretty funny, you have an initial post then it has some baby posts parented by randos which are almost always bad, everyone hates the comments lol they were bad on blogs, theyre still bad, youtubers complain about their commenters all the time, commenters are causing genuine harm on twitter, this is of course a central feature of social media

I have seen a lot of tiktok videos on youtube so that is another trickle

you canupload someone else's video to your tiktok and get a thousand views and no one cares about copyright at all or credit

I was talking about this with my husband last night— "the dark forest is growing."

https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1

I certainly post more on a private Discord server than I do anywhere else except ILX— I am tired of being perceived and "creating content"

yeah thats the other part of social media dying the conversation aspects are moving to more chat type platforms

turns out talking to everyone all at once was not the best way to talk

what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one

I have found Facebook to be a great place to get an audience for paintings and photography. That's the motivation-rewards loop - brief hit

Internet has such great potential for non-profit betterment of life - hopefully the dark forest will include such cozy cottages

and the "one" switches all the time, like kiss cam

xp

"what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one"
I like it - TalktoMebook

thats called the main character of the day, everyone tells them they should go to jail

yeah but what if tomorrow it was the shift manager at office depot

and suddenly everyone is talking to him

and suddenly everyone is talking to him

only if they say something bad online

i don't know, could be fun, i'm just saying let's flip the paradigm here

just saw some stats that over-50's make 80% of the political comments on social media... the younger folks generally avoid the subject

nobody should use tiktok

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/10/tiktoks-secret-operation-tracks-you-even-if-you-dont-use-it

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc

xp and let's face it, you absolutely know the shift manager at office depot said something bad online

the perfect post for a office depot manager to get man charactered for is bragging about over charging a homeless person for making copies of a job application

just saw some stats that over-50's make 80% of the political comments on social media...

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 3:45 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah but thats just cause theyre replying "trump more like dump" to home depot ads 50 times a day

the perfect post for a office depot manager to get man charactered for is bragging about over charging a homeless person for making copies of a job application

https://i.imgur.com/abEt6zB.png

thats right

now you understand the potential of everyone talks to one

i should get one of those hats

you know what kudos to the truman show for nailing the headset mic visionary before he was a wildly known type of guy

Fwiw I see at least as many screenshots of tweets on TikTok as I see TikTok videos on Twitter

i wonder if tiktok just figured out you like tweets

Twitter's research also examined what topics are of interest to their most active users. It is increasingly NSFW and crypto content and these users are actually losing interest in world news, sports, fashion and entertainment

— Sheila Dang (@Sheila_Dang) October 25, 2022

lol circling the drain

there is a surprising amount of nsfw like a video of some girl just screaming "DO YOU WANT TO &*%& ME" - like do the TIKTOK makers realize Americans find that kind of thing supriosing

twitter: pornhub for shills

https://i.imgur.com/qtNx8s0.jpg

I installed TikTok for one person and when you load the app random videos start playing. they are all so astonishingly horny. like 4 minutes of "when your best friend's sister comes over!!! and starts saying a lot of suggestive things that make you want to fuck her!!!"

haa good stuff

is the beret some reference to Erich von Stroheim or Ingmar Bergman? Should really have a monocle as well, the headset mic is the equivalent of the old bullhorn

this thread inspired my to download tiktok and upon opening it i got 3 horny vids and then one of those silly cooking vids

i do like the ones of chinese people making big soup in the countryside

youtube started a very wack TT ripoff feature and it is super horny too

yeah those are cool

there is definitely some funny/informative stuff on Tiktok but a lot of it gets filtered through Twitter so I just watch it there. unfortunately the majority of it is either softcore porn or "True facts that will DEMOLISH your perception of time Part 97" featuring a dude making the most unnatural voiceover you've ever heard

when I go onto youtube to look at Deep Purple videos or whatever, it's interesting to see what's 'trending': 'OMG, watch what happen when the bridegroom finally opens to the pantry door!' or whatever.. who watches this shit? And it'll have like 750 million views

or whatever

I want to add that the good dancing videos are so good that they fill me with relief.

when I go onto youtube to look at Deep Purple videos or whatever, it's interesting to see what's 'trending': 'OMG, watch what happen when the bridegroom finally opens to the pantry door!' or whatever.. who watches this shit? And it'll have like 750 million views

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 1:43 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

One of the things that the internet has made certain: most people are incredibly simple, passive creatures.

the worst part about the youtube algo is how it feeds you conspiracy versions of your interests like hey noticed you watched an archaeology video on gobekli tepe would you perhaps like to watch this one about how atlantis was real

totally - I was looking for info about my old .22 rifle (xmas present when I was 12) and started getting survivalist suggestions, for when the Coming Storm arrives

i wonder if it's because the algorithm gives bonus points for having some sort of business angle or a product for sale, biased not necessarily toward "grift" itself but toward "commerce", which is a ton of grift and conspiracy

if you start a new account it really is astonishing how fast it leads you down the Joe Rogan/Ben Shapiro rabbit hole

as in, search for art and you'll find artists and galleries, search for music and you'll get pushed toward the things they're selling, celebrities have a tv show or a movie or whatever. but search for something that doesn't have a clear commercial connection, like "i am always lonely", and it still searches for some sort of commercial connection

i have my finger on the pulse of the nation - they're all searching "i am always lonely" on tiktok