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Leaving twitter is like leaving your abusive ex who encourages unhealthy behavior and your mental health issues just so that you would never leave them.
why we need down votes and dislikes in social media.
for the longest time i had no fucking clue what a "ratio" on twitter even was. then i googled it. a ratio is basically when there is way more comments than likes. then my second thought was "wait that is a bad thing ? isn't the point of social media is to.... socialize? have a good discussion ?" then i remembered twitter is a toxic cesspool of the worst people online. on twitter there is no "downvote and move on", you HAVE to make a comment, or on the opposite side of the coin, you HAVE to be exposed to verbal abuse and scum. contradictory, reading these is incredibly addicting, making a controversial opinion and entertaining yourself watching people argue is addicting and does not promote growth. if you had a bad opinion and people downvoted you, then its an easy indicator to tell you went wrong. A number is not as hurtful as a string of personalized attacks. but comments? comments were made for discussion, so you are mixing the good and the bad together, promoting addiction and the lack of self improvement. It damages your mental health, for we were not meant to be exposed to that much negative attention (or attention in general to be fair). the moral of this story is that twitter is the same thing as heroin and that youtube's dislike policy is full of horse piss.
sometimes i check my twitter to see how things are doing. first thing i read is a bunch of people arguing about how breathing air is actually horribly offensive to X people and or it is the Y people agenda. then I remember why I left that shitsite and take a long break.
IMPORTANT PSA TO THOSE NEW TO TUMBLR OR REALLY ANYONE ON THIS SITE IN GENERAL:
IT IS OK TO REBLOG SPAM AND LIKE SOMEONE'S CONTENT ON THEIR BLOG NO ONE HERE IS GOING TO BE WEIRDED OUT, IN FACT IT IS ENCOURAGED THIS IDEA THAT SOCIALIZATION = BAD IS A TOXIC CAPITALISTIC TOOL DESIGNED BY HELLSITES LIKE TWITTER TO LEACH MONEY AND GOODWILL FROM YOUR BODY. I honest to god have no idea why "ratioing" on twitter is bad, like the act of engagement is considered a bad thing as if twitter were trying to encourage your toxic rage. oh wait that is exactly what twitter is doing. Twitter's entire business model is to encourage you to get outraged and to profit off of your rage induced engagement.
TUMBLR. DOES. NOT. HAVE. RATIOS. REBLOGGING IS A GOOD THING HERE. NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR THAT, AND HONESTLY MY MEMORY IS SO CRAP I FORGET Y'ALL RESPOND TO MY STUFF ANYWAYS.
All you need to do is change your profile pic and post something, and congratulations you now have a valid Tumblr citizenship. also to you twitter users: you can't cancel people on tumblr. this is a website full of eccentric weirdos. We are so far away from the mainstream that tumblr struggles to find advertisers for this site. At one point tumblr was very toxic, and the toxic tumblr people would eventually move to twitter during the porn ban. Twitter + the pandemic simply gave the toxic weirdos mainstream power to ruin people's lives. politely fuck off with your toxic crap, no one here is afraid to call you out on your obvious bullshit like on twitter. We don't have anything to hide here and even if we did your impact means NOTHING here. If you try to make tumblr toxic again then you will not be welcomed here by the community. Behave.
jfc the hubris that is the wind beneath elon’s wings
Twitter users acting like rowdy orphans with nothing to lose.
Jam like hell and fiddle yer ass off, bébés
Fuck Elon Musk
Aakskdjsjjba
it’s so delicious over there right now
that time Elon felt pissed and slighted because he got moderated for saying something hateful so he went into irreconcilable debt and leveraged his other companies and made a large deal with the Saudis and Putin sympathizers just to buy the one thing in his life that was moderating him and his hateful misogynist and racist and transphobe contemporaries (and not even that thoroughly) so that he could axe moderation and shit whatever thought he wanted on to the Internet only to have to hilariously overcompensate and become a dictator of moderation of things *he* didn’t like to blunt the consequences of his chaotically evil pack-of-m80s executive brainfarts but too late to stop losing more money and employees and summoning the exacting attention of the FTC and the undoubtedly molten ire of massive industries who lost billions of value in a single day, because Elon has never thought through the philosophies, sociology, and ethics of free speech or faced the consequences of his own actions that are about to smash him in the face and moderate him harder than he’s even been moderated before
“To take just one example, consider moderation. Without moderation, platforms become a cesspit of misogyny, racial hatred and antisemitism, without any conceivable benefit for society. Holocaust denial is not free speech — it is hate speech, and at least indirectly incites discrimination or violence. It is, at best, a shallow and uninformed interpretation of free speech to want to abolish moderation.”
— What’s behind Elon’s Twitter disaster? A fundamental misunderstanding of “free speech”
omg
just elon musk stroking his own ego during cross examination and in company wide memos
Elon wants to replace himself as soon as he can find someone.
“We broke the wealthiest man in the world in 3 weeks.” — @BlackKnight10k
Lettuce outlasting Lonnie muskrat
Callou callais
Incroyable, and holy shit
Twitter’s copyright strike system is no longer working. People are tweeting entire movies.
I know this is a hellsite,
But twitter is a new level of hellsite that I don't have the patience to deal with
Elon Musk: *buys Twitter*
also Elon Musk: *makes verified check available for everyone
the bots and trolls of Twitter… “now is our time to shine, friends”
I don't know why people are insulting all kpop stans since Elon decided to buy Twitter. Look at the kpop community here. All you will find are translators for tweets, People who repost the idol's tweets or posts on their blog for Tumblr people to see, people who hold civil conversations about cultural appropriation, fanfic writers, artists, people who share gifs or videos of concerts or funny moments and other stans who simply appreciate kpop idols.
Not all stans are delusional. It's just that there are some people on Twitter who have gone completely overboard in support of these idols. If you are worried about them then clarify that it's the kpop twiterrati that you don't want. Don't insult everyone in the kpop community just because you have the wrong notion about them.
Take @bang-tan, @blackpinkofficial, @bangtanmemesarchive, @blackpink @jenniekimblackpink , @bangtancorrect as an example. They are perfectly civil and have fun with their blog (except for @blackpinkofficial which is a now dead blog but was nice to have)
This person has the some of the best insults I've heard.
I haven't had a lot but I've had a few Elon Musk stans on my post calling me a loser for ragging on him.
You know that licking the feet of a billionaire is not a substitute for a personality, nor is it an accomplishment of your own?
I would think shoving his nasty pasty toes down your throat would be cause for concern too, I doubt that man washes his feet.
Even as someone generally less left leaning and less engaged with american politics than everyone here I have to agree. In fact, I think I can add to this with my perspective of having been pretty well within the right wing circlejerk as an edgelord teenager and say that It's not just that the democrats are having fun now, its that republicans aren't anymore. They really just lost the spark they had. The memes are fucking shit now. And worse, they're becoming bad in all the ways the left wing was bad. The over-the-top fearmongering about the countries future, the purity spirals, the cancel mobs, the victimhood culture, the indignant baby-whining about election interference, the right has lost even the legs it might have once had to stand on and is pettily resorting to all the tactics it, sometimes rightly, criticized the left for.
As for Trumps 2024 campaign, the vibe is just dead now.
It was already dying when it started, given how old and mellowed-out trump is and how much of a let-down he turned out to be for a not insignificant portion of his voter base, but the one-two punch of the shooting attempt and then losing the easiest political opponent in american history killed any possibility of the trump campaign being hopeful or upbeat. Now it's all deadly fucking serious business and we all know that just isn't what got Trump into office in the first place.
Plus, the rights "cultural victories" and increase in publicity has been vastly self-defeating.
We've seen the rise and fall of comedy dudebro podcasts, of incel terminology, of twitter personalities, political streamers, whatever the fuck happened with Jordan Peterson, and almost none of it has been good for the right wings optics.
Little has done more to push me leftward than to see Elons twitter bring some of the most embarassing and vile corners of the right wing not just out of the woodwork, but to the forefront . And thats not even getting into Elon himself.
Even the rights own terminology is being turned against them with the rise of the term "soyright" to describe just how fucking inane, unfunny, and sauceless most right wing memes and propaganda (not least of which being the AI generated slop which the rights clung onto out of increasing creative bankruptcy) are these days even by the standards of people who were, like me, right wing during trumps first 4 years. Maybe I grew up, maybe I know better now, but it could just as easily be the case that being right-wing just genuinely isn't cool anymore. The absolute state of american politics both in washington and in silicon valley has just completely exhausted everybody and now finally somebody with some pep comes along, someone not totally geriatric, and even as forced as the memes may be, even for someone like me whos never really been in favour of the mainstream left or democrats, its still a breath of fresh air.
Coconut Mommy 2024, fellow chuds. This is the way forward.
I think one of the reasons the Harris / Walz ticket has so much momentum is because the campaign is genuinely trying to put out this vibe of fun. Like that's all the "brat" thing is, the coconut jokes, just being kind of silly and fun.
And I think it's working, because let's be real, we are all exhausted. It's been all about preserving democracy, defeating fascism, the past eight years. The message has been "vote for us because the country is literally on the line". The vibes are not good when we are stuck back at that fight, and not even discussing trying to make progress on things like housing, healthcare, education, etc. And the fight to just stop fascism? All still true. Project 2025 is real and is extremely scary. We can't let that man back into office.
But the vibe was "vote for us otherwise we're all fucked :(" and now has shifted to "get in, we're making popcorn and then bullying fascists." Like a lot of the issues conservatives bring up, the Harris / Walz is just not engaging them in good faith, as they shouldn't. Republicans bring up abortion, and the Dems are just like, "you want 14 year old to give birth? Weirdo" and just leave it at that. Like YES, that's what you should do. Because it SHOULDNT be a debate. And it's working. This is how you defeat the identify politics thing Republicans have been trying to push for a while. Just mocking them for the stupidity of it all. "Like seriously? You think a book can make someone gay??? Hahaha." None of the Republicans are reacting well. They can't stand it. Vance even complained about bullying!!! Like do you KNOW who picked you as vp??? It's actually laughable, because they have no room to stand on when it comes to bullying.
And a huge part of the mocking and dismissing of Republicans is that the message is clear - were done debating all this stupid stuff. We've won the last two elections' popular vote - most Americans do NOT want christo-facism. It's time to move on. And that's what gives me hope, and the feeling of hope I think a lot of people have picked up on. It's time to address all the issues we've all wished we've been addressing the past decade. It's important we move onto that, and that's the message I'm getting from this campaign (We're not going back). I think it will resonate with a lot of people, because plainly, we're all just sick of this same old news cycle and fake rage bait over things like "should women have rights?", "Should gay people be allowed to exist?" The general populace have answered YES to both these multiple times, and it is time to move on. Maybe I'm being naive, but I am genuinely excited at the idea of putting to bed these debates (it's exhausting trying to fend your very existence) and moving on to actual economic and social policies that could fix a lot of deterioration over the last 2 decades.
twitter has actual white supremacists and racists with tens of thousands of followers posting evil shit without any consequence but if you make something as unforgivably cringe as a silly harmless cute video about a 3D cat singing an MF DOOM song you will have 250 "woke" teens QRTing you calling you a cracker and jokingly(?) calling for the death of all white people
