Elon Musk now owns Twitter, apparently trying to run it into the ground

[Sieg67]

Mr. Free Speech absolutist suspended Ken Klippenstein's account after he published J.D. Vance dossier.  Supposidly all the personal information it contained was already available to the public.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/x-suspends-journalist-ken-klippenstein-after-he-published-j-d-vance-dossier/ar-AA1rhm6f?ocid=BingNewsSerp

[tsar4]

LOL

[katt_goddess]

20 hours ago, tsar4 said:

LOL

Gotta love the comment in there about how Husk wasn't in it for the money, he was in it to save the site from 'woke'. 

Dude bought the damn thing for well beyond what it was worth at the time just to show he could and has proceeded to turn it into absolute crap because he has the mentality of a 12 year old who drives matchbox toys over the centerfolds of old Playboys while giggling. 

Apparently you need 'woke' to make money because those hillbilly racists are broke as f. 

[GuyBeardmane]

[Sieg67]

2 hours ago, katt_goddess said:

Gotta love the comment in there about how Husk wasn't in it for the money, he was in it to save the site from 'woke'. 

Dude bought the damn thing for well beyond what it was worth at the time just to show he could and has proceeded to turn it into absolute crap because he has the mentality of a 12 year old who drives matchbox toys over the centerfolds of old Playboys while giggling. 

Apparently you need 'woke' to make money because those hillbilly racists are broke as f. 

You say some oddly specific things sometimes.

[Seight]

34 minutes ago, GuyBeardmane said:

"business 9/11" is just an incredible turn of phrase

[scoobdog]

4 hours ago, Seight said:

"business 9/11" is just an incredible turn of phrase

Less so if you’re Rory McIlroy.

[katt_goddess]

22 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

You say some oddly specific things sometimes.

I like having fun with words. And if being fun also puts the exact type of image/feel in your head that I'm going for, even better. 

'Prepubescent dumbass' is fine but 'the mentality of a 12 year old who drives matchbox toys over the centerfolds of old Playboys while giggling' just seems so much better.  

[tsar4]

Musk's Mom encourages vote cheating...

[Sieg67]

He's never going to live that picture down.

[naraku360]

[tsar4]

I dunno, if I were POTUS and someone looked at me like this, I'd sic the alphabet soup on them...

[katt_goddess]

22 hours ago, tsar4 said:

I dunno, if I were POTUS and someone looked at me like this, I'd sic the alphabet soup on them...

It was bothering me until I remembered what that reminds me of.

Dude is a f*cking Renfield. He probably scurries around looking for insects to eat.

[SwimOdin]

Some people prematurely ejaculate when they meet former presidents and that’s ok

[katt_goddess]

Gods damn it.

[Sieg67]

On 10/7/2024 at 6:23 PM, tsar4 said:

I dunno, if I were POTUS and someone looked at me like this, I'd sic the alphabet soup on them...

Think he's going for a skinhead look in the 2nd pic?
They say when in Rome...

[discolé monade]

58 minutes ago, Sieg67 said:

Think he's going for a skinhead look in the 2nd pic?
They say when in Rome...

i think he finally gave up on the hair plugs. 

 

[Belize]

Twitter: the Wondrous Land of Endless Unwanted Opinions 

[tsar4]

2 hours ago, Sieg67 said:

Think he's going for a skinhead look in the 2nd pic?
They say when in Rome...

Either that or Rick Nielsen's "Huntz Hall" look.

[matrixman124]

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266258/x-pay-premium-users-engage-with-each-other

They're going to literally pay users based on engagement from blue checks. This is going to make the right wing echo chamber even worse

[1pooh4u]

Content creators that complain about the way shit goes down on X really need to drink a nice tall glass of STFU because they will continue to use the platform.  Left wing creators crying about it piss me off most of all because they actually have the power to defang the platform simply by not using it. But nah they wanna cry about how all their celebrity is tied to it and nowhere else has the reach. Oh well. Cry more then. That’ll fix it. 

[matrixman124]

8 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

Content creators that complain about the way shit goes down on X really need to drink a nice tall glass of STFU because they will continue to use the platform.  Left wing creators crying about it piss me off most of all because they actually have the power to defang the platform simply by not using it. But nah they wanna cry about how all their celebrity is tied to it and nowhere else has the reach. Oh well. Cry more then. That’ll fix it. 

It's true. A lot of them left Bluesky because they didn't like that they got less engagement

[katt_goddess]

23 hours ago, discolé monade said:

i think he finally gave up on the hair plugs. 

 

Everything he touches dies. 

Even Hair-in-a-Can.

[Raptorpat]

12 minutes ago, matrixman124 said:

It's true. A lot of them left Bluesky because they didn't like that they got less engagement

that's the rub, a new platform can't supplant the ubiquitous one in that way unless a critical mass for any ecosystem moves there are once

[matrixman124]

6 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

that's the rub, a new platform can't supplant the ubiquitous one in that way unless a critical mass for any ecosystem moves there are once

Not for nothing, the Twitter ban did a lot for Bluesky because of this lol

[Raptorpat]

yeah real curious how that played out in Brazil

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, matrixman124 said:

It's true. A lot of them left Bluesky because they didn't like that they got less engagement

They just left instead of helping build up engagement, which they could have done. It’s probably hard work but not dealing with Musk has got to be worth it. They literally make him wealthier when he supposedly stands for everything they’re against. It’s so infuriating because they have the power to cut off his nuts. 

[naraku360]

2 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

It’s so infuriating because they have the power to cut off his nuts. 

He has those?

[rpgamer]

Truth be told, I've started to question if we even can build new large-scale internet communities in the current internet landscape. Everything has become so marketing-dependent and everyone is just so very sick of it. The people wanting any social media format to rise to power the most are those that stand to make money off of it. It's no longer about building a community, it's building an audience of consumers. Anything remotely large-scale is just going to fall prey to the same mechanics, and be at the mercy of big advertisers that will steer any platform towards what will generate the biggest short-term profits. You're doomed if you don't bend to their whims and lose funding, and you're doomed if you do and lose public support.

Idk. Bit of a ramble. Just been mulling over how much of a shitshow the internet has become, and the impacts on social media, and I personally think it can all be traced back to advertising having an ever-growing influence on what does or doesn't survive.

[1pooh4u]

31 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

He has those?

He’s got something.  He’s got 111 offspring.  

[1pooh4u]

10 minutes ago, rpgamer said:

Truth be told, I've started to question if we even can build new large-scale internet communities in the current internet landscape. Everything has become so marketing-dependent and everyone is just so very sick of it. The people wanting any social media format to rise to power the most are those that stand to make money off of it. It's no longer about building a community, it's building an audience of consumers. Anything remotely large-scale is just going to fall prey to the same mechanics, and be at the mercy of big advertisers that will steer any platform towards what will generate the biggest short-term profits. You're doomed if you don't bend to their whims and lose funding, and you're doomed if you do and lose public support.

Idk. Bit of a ramble. Just been mulling over how much of a shitshow the internet has become, and the impacts on social media, and I personally think it can all be traced back to advertising having an ever-growing influence on what does or doesn't survive.

You’re not wrong. It’s why I acknowledge it would be hard to do.  It would probably really hurt people’s pockets until something else is figured out.  
 

It’s kinda like how our presidential elections in our two party system is and to break that it would take a lot of pain for a lot of people for an unknown amount of time.  So we put up with shit because it is what it is right now 

no one wants to be the first to jump in the pool 

tl;Dr change is hard 

[naraku360]

5 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

He’s got something.  He’s got 111 offspring.  

He has a hilariously low number for a man with a breeding/being a bad father fetish while being the richest dude on earth.

[matrixman124]

10 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

You’re not wrong. It’s why I acknowledge it would be hard to do.  It would probably really hurt people’s pockets until something else is figured out.  
 

It’s kinda like how our presidential elections in our two party system is and to break that it would take a lot of pain for a lot of people for an unknown amount of time.  So we put up with shit because it is what it is right now 

no one wants to be the first to jump in the pool 

tl;Dr change is hard 

Something very interesting about what we engage with, viral content is very easy to produce and commodify and spread BUT its inauthenticity is not working with younger internet users AKA the future

So for now, it seems bad but I think a lot of these platforms are going to slowly waste away until only older users are on them. The platform will stagnate and die with them.

As long as people want to form a community online, i think it's possible but maybe on a smaller scale. The bigger a community gets the more problems it has it seems

[matrixman124]

5 hours ago, naraku360 said:

He has a hilariously low number for a man with a breeding/being a bad father fetish while being the richest dude on earth.

He still can get women to have his kids which is just gross

[André Toulon]

Are these hyperbole numbers, because there is no way anyone here should be a virgin if he's got 111 kids...idc how much money he has.

[1pooh4u]

1 minute ago, André Toulon said:

Are these hyperbole numbers, because there is no way anyone here should be a virgin if he's got 111 kids...idc how much money he has.

It’s not 111 but he’s in competition with Nick Cannon. It’s really 12 kids with 3 women. 

[1pooh4u]

I can’t believe 3 women had sex with him on multiple occasions.  Money must be really sexy 

[scoobdog]

2 hours ago, André Toulon said:

Are these hyperbole numbers, because there is no way anyone here should be a virgin if he's got 111 kids...idc how much money he has.

Musk must think he’s Zeus, who also happens to be the worst father in history.

[scoobdog]

58 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

I can’t believe 3 women had sex with him on multiple occasions.  Money must be really sexy 

Grimes kind of looks miserable, so there’s got to be some self loathing in there.

[1pooh4u]

1 minute ago, scoobdog said:

Grimes kind of looks miserable, so there’s got to be some self loathing in there.

He’s a terrible father. His daughter Vivian hates him and with good reason.  He brings a lot of hate and suffering to the transgender community with his shit takes.  He’s such a trash person but people care more about their own pockets than they do about really boycotting something. People could actually do something about this.  
 

I’m ranting but people are really full of fuckin shit.  

[scoobdog]

4 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

He’s a terrible father. His daughter Vivian hates him and with good reason.  He brings a lot of hate and suffering to the transgender community with his shit takes.  He’s such a trash person but people care more about their own pockets than they do about really boycotting something. People could actually do something about this.  
 

I’m ranting but people are really full of fuckin shit.  

Trump makes Musk possible.

[1pooh4u]

1 hour ago, scoobdog said:

Trump makes Musk possible.

There’s a ton of shit that makes Musk possible.  There’s too many people that love their “hate your neighbor” messaging 

[naraku360]

5 hours ago, matrixman124 said:

He still can get women to have his kids which is just gross

His daughter called him an incel.

[naraku360]

4 hours ago, 1pooh4u said:

I can’t believe 3 women had sex with him on multiple occasions.  Money must be really sexy 

I'm saying that he wants to have as many kids as possible and has the money to buy more pussy than any one person in history, but is so unappealing that he can't even breach 20 children. He's still falling short of the teens, for that matter.

What a fucking loser.

[1pooh4u]

14 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

I'm saying that he wants to have as many kids as possible and has the money to buy more pussy than any one person in history, but is so unappealing that he can't even breach 20 children. He's still falling short of the teens, for that matter.

What a fucking loser.

The last thing the world needs is dozens of Elon Musks running around 

[rpgamer]

24 minutes ago, 1pooh4u said:

The last thing the world needs is dozens of Elon Musks running around 

Ok, but, hear me out, he's already got one kid that hates him.... what if dozens of kids that hate him?

[1pooh4u]

8 minutes ago, rpgamer said:

Ok, but, hear me out, he's already got one kid that hates him.... what if dozens of kids that hate him?

Good point!  Hopefully he creates an army that absolutely hates him 

[Raptorpat]

59 minutes ago, naraku360 said:

has the money to buy more pussy than any one person in history, but is so unappealing that he can't even breach 20 children. He's still falling short of the teens, for that matter.

what in the jeffrey epstein 

[naraku360]

19 minutes ago, Raptorpat said:

what in the jeffrey epstein 

I'm not saying what he wants is good.

I'm saying he places declining birthrates as an existential crisis for mankind that he believes he will personally stop.

He has the money to buy basically unlimited prostitutes. Someone with even a little likeability and his resources should be able to fuck like rabbits.

He only has 12 kids. To stop mankind from dying out.

That's fucking hilarious.

[naraku360]

1 hour ago, 1pooh4u said:

The last thing the world needs is dozens of Elon Musks running around 

Good thing he's a gross loser nobody likes.