Elon Musk

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

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

― frogbs, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:55 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it still tries to serve me joe rogan videos occasionally even tho ive done nothing to deserve it except maybe watching boxing documentaries

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

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, October 25, 2022 4:54 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

maybe who knows whats going on in there, but i think they also just consider conspiracy videos to be videos that belong to whatever category that legit ones do, its all just videos to them

yeah plus I would bet consp videos have really strong time-on-site numbers compared to less nuts content

you'll get pushed toward the things they're selling

Isn't this just Google in a nutshell?

It's all content

Matt Levine a few days ago pointing out that the funniest outcome here is that Musk doesn't come up with an angle and buys Twitter at $54.20 and at 5.01 Joe Biden rings him and says we've decided you are too close to China and Russia and he has to sell it at $10.00.

I mean, the best option is this destroys Musk and Twitter, and I'm still holding out hope.

oh i know that matt

https://www.garbageday.email/p/websites-are-just-places-to-talk

In fact, according to Know Your Meme, about 60% of the memes we’ve seen in 2022 were created by Twitter or TikTok. And the three biggest apps behind those two —YouTube, Reddit, and Instagram — all trail far behind, contributing around 10% each. And if these current trends continue, it’s likely that by next year TikTok will outpace Twitter. In fact, we’ve entered a new interesting moment where it’s usually unclear whether people on Twitter are talking about something because it’s on TikTok or if people on TikTok are talking about something because it’s on Twitter. Soon it won’t be. Very shortly, every platform on the internet will be completely downstream of TikTok.

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But for people who do not closely follow TikTok — of which there are still many — culture will continue to feel more and more random and confusing. You can see this in the way TikTok “algospeak” has spread to other platforms, with words like “Unalive” becoming a now very common thing to see within particularly twee pockets of the internet. And readers ask me about inscrutable TikTok trends all the time. Most recently, a reader named George sent me an email last week about a weird and confusing TikTok trend where people were posting videos of “fastest workers”. Here’s a supercut from 2020. I also suspect this is contributing to the death of the influencer, as recently noted by Embedded, and the rise of the influencer-worker. It’s not particularly interesting to just be an influencer on TikTok, but it is interesting to follow someone who does something. Perhaps this is also connected to the “faster workers” trend.

But this creeping feeling that to not “be on TikTok” is to somehow not understand what’s going on anymore is spreading. In fact, I came across a Tumblr post that I thought articulated this idea pretty perfectly.

“Frequently, I’ll see a post here that’s like ‘as a society, we all need to stop engaging in the very common [activity/ behavior/ perspective that I have never once heard about in my life]’ and I’ll feel confused at first because this post will be treating this extremely niche unheard-of topic like it’s universal,” Tumblr user keplercryptids wrote. “And then I remember that I am not on TikTok. So many takes on this site are direct responses to what’s popular on TikTok and I am so happy to live in ignorance tbh.”

The question is, how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?

memes as culture. i don't know what to do with that. memes are an episode of america's funniest home videos. but maybe it's true. maybe that's what our culture is

"Vine" lol

how long will you be able to live in ignorance as more and more of the machinery of our culture becomes branches for TikTok to analyze and optimize around?

Ehh - 'the machinery of our culture'? this is depressing

I’d rather be an old fartsack with my musty old books than have anything to do with TikTok. I did a deepdive the other week on skinny shaming and fatphobia on the platform, and both sides were completely unhinged and without a shred of nuance or understanding

the ultimate meme is the project to convince us memes are important

I still think the dancing baby on Ally McBeal is the ultimate meme

ha that baby could really get down!

hey it seems they're creating jobs in meme counting XXP

Not all rich dudes are arrogant. Elon Musk has never struck me as anything close to that.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Monday, August 12, 2013 6:13 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Lmao some of the posts up thread are crazy

i defended elon musk for a long time because i thought it would be a good thing for humanity, overall, to move to electric vehicles

good lord though, at what cost, AT WHAT COST

I think it's dumb that he's throwing around numbers when he doesn't even have a working prototype. It just seems like he's hoping to derail the other project.

― wk, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:15 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink

re hyperloop derailing sf > la high speed rail, he did years later admit to this

https://media.tenor.com/911FW6bHvHEAAAAM/80s-commercials-80s-mtv.gif

https://media.tenor.com/911FW6bHvHEAAAAM/80s-commercials-80s-mtv.gif

tiktok is fine if you want to laugh _at_ people, but other than that it's either vile or extremely stupid.

i like twitter and will be sad when the guy in the thread title destroys it.

i do think it would be kind of funny if he destroyed it not by turning it into a right wing hell hole or gutting its workforce but by trying to turn it into x, the everything app