Twitter C/D

memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me

when i quit twitter i only followed 200 people, it still sucked

memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 9:28 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hate these especially whenever they require a bunch of media people to talk about how smart they were as children or whatever

really the problem is media and not twitter itself maybe but... media is so much of it from my experience

if that ("media") is who all these random people are then i would agree with that. i don't know who they are, do not recognize their names, it's just oh this random person is telling me how to hurt their feelings (or whatever) and now I am supposed to what -- laugh? i can't

it's probably safe to assume that me complaining about twitter = me complaining about my career and/or me complaining about the way people talk about politics and swarm around political news there

also i haven't used it in three years, so idk why i feel the need to say it sucks all the time, other than my experience of it from 2013-2015 was like 80 percent negative and i can't imagine it's gotten better

anyway sorry for my routine myopic outbursts itt

memes that are just people talking about themselves/attempting to be funny via personal details are boring to me

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:28 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?

The key to enjoying Twitter (to the extent that it is enjoyable) is to participate as little as possible and passively observe people engage in psychological self-harm to amuse you while you wait in line for a few minutes or whatever. The constant spectacle of people shouting into the hurricane force winds of the “discourse” (all the while, all good intentions aside, just adding to the noise) is instructive as well.

This applies to all social media, to varying degrees, but Twitter is premised on a kind of total participation of everyone in everything that is especially brain melting if you try to do anything other than just passively observe it or have one of those accounts that just seems to be in oblivious conversation with itself.

Depends who you follow I suppose. there isn't that much hooting and hollering on my TL, at least not to the point where I have to eject. But I'm not on it for extended periods of time ever. I understand that many people have a hard time with social media because they either can't do it at all or when they do it they're completely addicted to it. A friend of my mine had to delete her account because she wouldn't be able to look away from Twitter until she read every single tweet that was new. A lot of my friends are that way. Most of the people I follow are either musicians, filmmakers, writers, critics, friends, or publications/websites/companies like Criterion, Kranky, Bandcamp, et al. It's nice.

Here's how little Twitter cares about their platform being gamed:

- Inform Twitter exec of accounts falsely representing NC and various NC municipalities

- Twitter exec ignores tip, instead asks "Why don't you start a competitor?"

- Two weeks later https://t.co/UqJJzDBfPb pic.twitter.com/zAmruXSjVN

— geoff golberg (@geoffgolberg) August 22, 2018

Depends who you follow I suppose.

I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.

was this in response to the Dolly Parton tweet?

No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!

It was inspired by a few tweets I saw that started with "me during sex: [variant on "hurt me"]" followed by something they found emotionally wounding. Not funny imo and way too tmi for me even if it were funny, which I don't believe it is. Someone else upthread referred to it as the "hurt me" meme; when I saw it originally, I didn't realize it was a meme until I saw a few different variants. Usually if something annoys me in that way I just don't look at it for a while and it is gone the next time I look.

Everyone has a different use for twitter afaict. I assume someone somewhere finds the "hurt me" meme very amusing. Some people enjoy oversharing. /shrug

I mean I don't do them off alt because of work but twitter memes are one of the few bright spots of twitter

the best way to use twitter is to selectively copy-paste the good tweets into group chats

two things i have learned from twitter

a) a lot of people are really sad/in need of attention and/or validation
b) a LOT of people are REALLY funny

No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!

not even catalogued here

be less literal

i mentioned MSN Messenger in a tweet and there's a Michael Jackson fan who searches "MSN Messenger" and replies with a video of his monitor as he uses an MSN Messenger clone

naturally

jolene was distracting boyfriend since before those stock photo teens were born (probably?)
that's what i am saying -- not that anyone had used jolene in that meme because lord knows i couldn't keep track of that nor would i care to

dolly used that meme

for jolene
like yesterday

i know

im so confused loooool

Lechera, no disrespect, but you seem to completely misunderstand what is going on in the hurt me meme!

it's not at all about oversharing

the joke is about the misunderstanding of the request "hurt me"

the person wanted to be hurt physically for sexual pleasure.

but the other person hilariously misunderstood and did something to hurt them emotionally.

it's all right there in the text.

i totally understand that
and it remains unfunny to me

No, Jolene is the original version of that meme!

great post seemingly misunderstood by everyone itt

i hate these especially whenever they require a bunch of media people to talk about how smart they were as children or whatever

― princess of hell (BradNelson), Wednesday, August 22, 2018 12:30 PM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

adults whining about growing up as ~gifted children~ is really something, what dumbasses

i totally understand that
and it remains unfunny to me

I get the meme and still havent seen a funny one. and I like memes!

je553 i understand it and have understood it
i just don't find it funny and would rather not discuss it further. kindly give me the benefit of the doubt for having my own informed opinion.

either you like this kind of millennial gallows humor or you don't, neither's better than the other

#BragAboutYourGeneration is catching up with gifted children as the most annoying thing on Twitter

I did wonder if LL was being arch about Jolene but tbh her v confusing reading of the "hurt me" joke, of which I have also not seen a version I found funny, threw me

in apology, have this answer record to Jolene (embed should start at 5:23)

https://youtu.be/kjXRJt-_znI?t=323

Depends who you follow I suppose.

I think this used to be the case but increasingly (maybe this is the new "algorithm"?) to be on Twitter at all is to be on all of Twitter. The whole design of the platform works aggressively against creating micro-communities in which (less chaotic, more coherent) "conversations" or encounters can take place. The supreme annoyance of Twitter is that it's a room in which all points of view and all forms of talking are taking place at once and responding to (at) each other--when in the real world for any coherent or productive kind of communication to take place you're already relying of a number of exclusions and simplifications (or reductions in complexity) of social space.

― ryan, Wednesday, 22 August 2018 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

However much white noise there is, it hasn't been enough to stop connection forming. In my time I do see micro-communities (via group chats and the like) that develop when a few people find each other on twitter - and I reckon many of these then transfer to the real world connections so I am not sure it works as you say.

to clarify we did not meet on twitter, and at this point most people in it either don't use twitter or have it write-only. in my experience micro-communities do not form on twitter (or other social media) but are reflections of what exists in the real world already. which is what people don't understand about @ replying and why it usually isn't wanted

I am sure that much of it is a reflection of the outside world but I have seen people from different places but similar interests forming connections.

Besides, twitter allows you to restrict your notifications to see replies by mutuals only so that aspect is covered, for the most part. I see the fact that many don't do it (despite knowing of it) means that they are looking to hear others' points of view (although you often see people's patience being tested).

"hurt me" meme always reminds me of this (which i actually think is fairly funny)

http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/comics/2012-07-13-Happy-Ending.png

i... i... bought it

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1724941682

availble now...
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— wint (@dril) August 23, 2018

Paperback: 420 pages

that is so strange just yesterday I was thinking how cool it would be to just have a @dril book since Twitter archives are so clunky

This is legitimately going to be the only way to read tweets in about six years when the site finally shuts down

Unless the Pinboard guy buys the company for $1

i mentioned MSN Messenger in a tweet and there's a Michael Jackson fan who searches "MSN Messenger" and replies with a video of his monitor as he uses an MSN Messenger clone

after a few drinks tonight I suspect I will get the urge to try this out.

Number One! In your face Chapo!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/new-releases/books/4456/ref=zg_b_hnr_4456_1

no shame in being outsold by the dril book, but being outsold by David Spade's 'A Polaroid Guy in a Snapchat World' is another matter entirely

I'm going to buy the dril book but definitely not the chapo book (or the david spade book)

samr