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.
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 18:07 (one year ago) link
otm
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
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.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
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? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:15 (one year ago) link
i'll be real, i'm so much more damaged from ilx's constant superiority complex than from anyone's silly adopted vernacular
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
mother?
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/044/247/297.png
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
― partez Maroc anthem (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
given the size and influence of this community, it's difficult to imagine who ilx is "superior" to and in what wayi like to think of us as these guyshttp://i.imgur.com/hbYplcX.jpg
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 December 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
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!
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Friday, 16 December 2022 21:37 (one year ago) link
the first step forward in regards to cultural appropriation is everyone being cool
― lag∞n, Friday, 16 December 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
i'm lucky because my culture is so vague and fragmented that can't be appropriated
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
The Baseball Furies had no speaking parts.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:30 (one year ago) link
Calling something “the bee’s knees” is appropriating apiarist culture.
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:36 (one year ago) link
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."
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:42 (one year ago) link
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
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:43 (one year ago) link
Mr. Fox and His Friends?
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 December 2022 23:44 (one year ago) link
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.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:21 (one year ago) link
Ugh
― Soda Stereo Total (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:29 (one year ago) link
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
― lag∞n, Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:32 (one year ago) link
I used to sign work emails "Yours in Christ" when I worked in porn.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
better than when white dudes would use "ninja" instead of the n-word I guess
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-brother-in-christ
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:55 (one year ago) link
or how people who keep saying "God hates FIGS, you got it all wrong!"
― Fash Gordon (Neanderthal), Saturday, 17 December 2022 02:56 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:03 (one year ago) link
― circa1916, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:41 (one year ago) link
Maybe because even the Twitter thread is tired of talking about Twitter.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:45 (one year ago) link
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.
― circa1916, Saturday, 17 December 2022 04:53 (one year ago) link
_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”.
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Saturday, 17 December 2022 12:35 (one year ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I liked "my brother in Christ' when John Legend used it in some response to some asshole
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:55 (one year ago) link
My brother in Christ, what an asshole
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 17 December 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
i'll be real, i'm so much more damaged from ilx's constant superiority complex than from anyone's silly adopted vernacularLol
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Sunday, 18 December 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
lmao
Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 18 December 2022 17:49 (one year ago) link
I haven’t even heard of one of those. Thanks for the heads-up on what the competing services are!
― mh, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
Yeah, Tribel and Nostr loving that post....
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:04 (one year ago) link
elon wakes up every day thinking about how he can get sued
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
So dumb. At this point it's like he's just trying to chase people away.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:11 (one year ago) link
Also pretty interesting that he didn't include TikTok, which is one of the platforms that gets linked the most.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
Such a giant pissbaby.
― emil.y, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:13 (one year ago) link
twitter cannibalizes tiktok content for traffic, no surprise there
― 龜, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
yup
― mh, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:15 (one year ago) link
doesnt want to anger china re tesla operating there mb and tiktok isnt really a viable twitter replacement
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
is twitter still trying to do something with onlyfans?
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
lmao🐦[Specifically, we will remove accounts created solely for the purpose of promoting other social platforms and content that contains links or usernames for the following platforms: Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, Truth Social, Tribel, Nostr and Post.— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) December 18, 2022🕸]🐦
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:17 (one year ago) link
I can't help bu think "burn Twitter burn" but I feel bad for communities that us it and have enjoyed it.
I guess nothing goldble verified) (or can stay
― | (Latham Green), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:19 (one year ago) link
Even linktree is banned now, just a gigantic flailing baby.
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
no URLs. no usernames without the URL. no bypassing restrictions on URLs (like writing example dot com). no posting images with usernames in them.free speech! pic.twitter.com/S3ZnwxkvSQ— Molly White (@molly0xFFF) December 18, 2022
― lag∞n, Sunday, 18 December 2022 18:30 (one year ago) link