Twitter C/D

tho im not sure how hes checking for subscribers, supposedly twitters manually verifying identities before handing out blue checks, could be theres a backlog and he cant see them til after that

Of those 238 million monetizable accounts only about 10% are in the Goldilocks zone

the Venn diagram of Musk followers who are pearl-clutching regarding the pseudo-doxxing here and people who supported Gamergate is a circle

fwiw the one person i followed who paid cancelled immediately (when people started unfollowing/bullying him haha), and his month expired, and he still has the blue check and shows up in searches for people who paid. apparently they didn't implement offboarding lmao.

You have to pay $20 a month to remove your blue check

You have to pay $20 a month to remove your blue check

You also have to pay $20 a month to stop double-tweeting

You also have to pay $20 a month to stop double-tweeting

the discourse (here and everywhere) is gonna need a few years to recover from twitter poisoning. surely some other gestalt posting style will scum to the top in time to supplant fully incomprehensible acronyms spiced with crypto jargon and scoffingly knowing nu-i-can-haz-cheezburger nihilism; i'm hoping for heiroglyphics.

otm

my friend's partner used to work for i can haz cheezburger, she's a bartender now

Most novel turns of phrase are AAVE and from drag/ballroom culture so I try to avoid most of them bc by the time I hear them they’ve already been busted

this was me trying to understand wtf people were talking about under a caroline polacheck tweet calling her 'mother'. shut the fuck up you dummies.

can you imagine having a fanbase of nothing but white suburban teen girls who do nothing but screech 'yasss qkween' at you all day long and say you are 'so mother'? I'd fucking quit music and join a monastery out of embarrassment

i'll be real, i'm so much more damaged from ilx's constant superiority complex than from anyone's silly adopted vernacular

mother?

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/044/247/297.png

otm

given the size and influence of this community, it's difficult to imagine who ilx is "superior" to and in what way
i like to think of us as these guys
http://i.imgur.com/hbYplcX.jpg

re: AAVE and ballroom culture, this debate has been had for years— “If Madonna Calls” and any number of other rejoinders to those appropriating ballroom and Black nightlife terminology have been occurring for decades.

What many of these debates miss is that language is like food— intimate, mutable, borderless in its appeal. Simply using a term from a culture that is not your own doesn’t make you a colonizer or a racist, it makes you a human being. It’s how the term is used and whether there’s some knowledge of and respect for where it comes from that matters, I think.

I say this as someone who has seen multiple infographics and threads about this issue claiming that terms which are over 100 years old are somehow “property” of a certain cultural milieu that arose in the past decade or three. Sorry, no!

the first step forward in regards to cultural appropriation is everyone being cool

i'm lucky because my culture is so vague and fragmented that can't be appropriated

The Baseball Furies had no speaking parts.

Calling something “the bee’s knees” is appropriating apiarist culture.

My complaint with "my brother in Christ" online meme language (whether derived from different cultures/subcultures or simply being very online) is that it rapidly starts to feel algorithmic rather than like authentic human communication - "this is what I say to get more likes on my tweets/posts."

akin to the chodes in high school who blacked out all their lights and turn signals because it was cool but couldn't say why it was cool

Mr. Fox and His Friends?

Ha, wrong thread. I think.

Ugh I'd noticed "my brother in Christ" a lot on reddit, in gamer comms in particular but fuck me, none of these people are religious, stop saying that you dorks.

Ugh

it started out as a joke about a more socially acceptable thing than the n word for black ppl to call each other then was quickly adopted by people who missed the joke which is kinda funny to see tbh

I used to sign work emails "Yours in Christ" when I worked in porn.

better than when white dudes would use "ninja" instead of the n-word I guess

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-brother-in-christ

or how people who keep saying "God hates FIGS, you got it all wrong!"

yeah appropriation is fraught because it happens lots of ways. There are objectionable and actively harmful forms of it. But a lot of culture is not one-way, it's an exchange of ideas. So some level of appropriation or absorption is just kind of inevitable especially in a diverse population. Those of us who like living in cities partly like them because of the cultural intersections that happen there, it's interesting when different ideas and experiences come together. There are also power imbalances in a lot of those intersections, and you have to be aware of them. So I think appropriation in the bad sense is kind of a know-it-when-you-see-it thing. Iggy Azalea, say.

the first step forward in regards to cultural appropriation is everyone being cool

Maybe because even the Twitter thread is tired of talking about Twitter.

Idk, the real time meltdown updates have been great entertainment.

I will take this moment to complain about corny white indie fux doing “rap squat” poses in photos still to this day while we’re on this topic though.

_the first step forward in regards to cultural appropriation is everyone being cool_


lol ^

Not sure how/why this thread dove into the ethics of cultural appropriation when nobody was really making an argument about it outside of “it’s embarrassing when corny people run this once cool thing into the ground”.

I never experienced any safety problem with Twitter in the past. Today, I had two fairly sophisticated phishing attempts in my DMs. Maybe some of the engineers who got sacked were doing a useful job ...

— Prof Francois Balloux (@BallouxFrancois) December 17, 2022

I liked "my brother in Christ' when John Legend used it in some response to some asshole

My brother in Christ, what an asshole

i'll be real, i'm so much more damaged from ilx's constant superiority complex than from anyone's silly adopted vernacular

Lol

lmao

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— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022

I haven’t even heard of one of those. Thanks for the heads-up on what the competing services are!

Yeah, Tribel and Nostr loving that post....

elon wakes up every day thinking about how he can get sued

So dumb. At this point it's like he's just trying to chase people away.

Also pretty interesting that he didn't include TikTok, which is one of the platforms that gets linked the most.

Such a giant pissbaby.