solitary tweets that effortlessly summarize the spirt of twitter
― Women, Fire, and Dangerous Zings (silby), Friday, 15 February 2013 07:27 (eleven years ago) link
joke twitter/weird twitter crossover comix, digging these
http://twitterthecomic.tumblr.com/
― sleepingbag, Friday, 1 March 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
i like the tweets but the art is awwwwfulll
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 March 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
none of these are nearly as funny when drawn. its not the jokes, i guess, but the tweet construction itself, fitting stuff in that small amount of characters, brevity and evocativeness, etc., that makes them really work.
― s.clover, Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
really underlines the weird twitter is like poetry argument.
― s.clover, Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
i think they'd be funny if the art was better
― frogbs, Sunday, 3 March 2013 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
nah, the art is really nice, and fairly twitter-style even.
but this is really how twitter-jokes should translate to comic form: http://wolfpuppy.net/comic/1.html
― s.clover, Sunday, 3 March 2013 21:22 (eleven years ago) link
(all of them i mean, not that one in particular)
― s.clover, Sunday, 3 March 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://wolfpuppy.net/comic/16.png
it warms my heart to imagine ppl on different continents appreciating this
― ogmor, Sunday, 3 March 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BEaH7y5CQAASDvd.jpg
― max, Sunday, 3 March 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
is that andrew cuomo?
― balls, Sunday, 3 March 2013 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
idk i just think the art style is just visually unpleasant and makes me not want to look at it?
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 13:16 (eleven years ago) link
i'm with you
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.theawl.com/2013/03/spy-twitter-is-weird-twitte
― lag∞n, Monday, 4 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link
finally some twitter shit i can get into
― Mordy, Monday, 4 March 2013 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
has nothing to do with the art, literal representations of jokes are never, ever funny
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 4 March 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
I think it does - I could see most Perry Bible Fellowship comics working as tweets but obviously the art really helps there
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
the best parts of some of these tweets are entirely in the phrasing and the description.
i'm not racist, but, *cranes neck to see if anyone's around. keeps craning. head unscrews entirely. out of the hole pour jewels & mysteries*
this is almost entirely a verbal joke. it's a verbal joke about an image, but the verbal turn is what gives it the action, or actually the multiple verbal turns, in the shift from direct address to action, and then the shift from craning to unscrewing, etc. the way it builds up the gag is all about how those few words are chosen. and how does one draw a "mystery" anyway?
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
they're in large part jokes about how we communicate in txts and on twitter. just like a hueg part of pbf strips are jokes about genres of comic and representational art, not the raw punchlines themselves.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
okay stop
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
i guess you'd have to cite examples but to me the art part of PBF is a great element of the overall presentation but not really integral to the joke.
meanwhile I think most UtilityLimb tweets are unfuckable for those reasons, but some of those comics seem like they'd work with better art
― frogbs, Monday, 4 March 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
it's fan art
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
that's why it's bad
sorry but great tweets lend themselves to overthinking.
― s.clover, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
also most of those comics are from the bad part of weird twitter thats all favstar 18 yr olds just rearranging the same set of tropes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:47 (eleven years ago) link
more like [dad|weed|hitler|piss|dog|teens|boner] twitter
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 18:56 (eleven years ago) link
yes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 18:57 (eleven years ago) link
ok ok okok
― sleepingbag, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
ilx not a fan of twitter the comic the tumblr
― sleepingbag, Monday, 4 March 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
― s.clover, Monday, March 4, 2013 12:55 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this otm
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
its like dont u know how to read, why do u need to see pictures of joeks
― max, Monday, March 4, 2013 1:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
wait there's another part to weird twitter??
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
the goons who came up with those tropes
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
those dudes are virtually indistinguishable from the 18 yr olds and/or just tweet about israel all day
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
eh not to put too fine a point on it but i think there is a vast difference between e.g. patricia lockwood and the million people who adopted the "sext tweet" format after her
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:14 (eleven years ago) link
noted somethingawful goon patricia lockwood
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:17 (eleven years ago) link
who is actually humorous on "weird twitter?" dril and utilitylimb and patricia lockwood are funny but like i followed rare_basement for a minute and it's just a menagerie of retweets from guys with "dudehugs420boner" names that are almost staggeringly unfunny
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
seems like it's a ton of, yeah, "favstar 18 yr olds"
the secret is that 'weird twitter' is never humorous as you experience it in the present
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
like if a dude has >5,000 tweets then like 4990 of those are guaranteed garbage, and the other 10 are on favstar
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
kind of the impression i got but hey most of the "weird twitter" guys that follow me are old men posing as adult babies and shit like that so
― ta-nehisi goatse (fadanuf4erybody), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, twitter is full of that sort of noise, you have to learn how to manage it xp
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
you can manually turn off retweets by certain ppl u follow, iirc. that helps.
also, it's v v wise to block people who are sucky and bad so they don't unexpectedly get retweeted into your timeline.
― fueled by satanism, violence, and sodomy (elmo argonaut), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
― 乒乓, Monday, 4 March 2013 22:25 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is why utility limb was so good because of the insanely high consistency of good tweets
― plax (ico), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
rare_basement is the queen of the favstar crew
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:29 (eleven years ago) link
bandit, dril, fart, dogboner, pupy are all (iirc) ex-boons. lockwood and notopoulos arent but theyre not favstarcrewe
i mean i get that theres not really a distinction but
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
like hell-homer and that map of weird twitter. all taht shit is like high schoolers on favstar
― max, Monday, 4 March 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
i want twitter accounts that are all performance, i get so bored when people are also just using their twitter as well. bandit stopped doing it really fast but even graey alien does it a bit
― plax (ico), Monday, 4 March 2013 23:33 (eleven years ago) link