Twitter C/D

rip ted

suicide by promo video

amazing work

Baylor eww

https://x.com/tedvid/status/1704665553397330262?s=20

lmao

he seems pretty basic and unlikely to be the source of the burn tweets in the vid

someone he tagged knows

based on their timelines miho12 def the top suspect

linda deleted her tweet, so at least she reads the replies

Twitter's last remaining user

New York Times Pitchbot
@DougJBalloon
In this Ohio town, it was a tradition: early mass, softball game in the park, then over to the airport for burgers, fries, and double scotch rocks. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

It does seem apt that X's shiny new advert promoting the platform includes a conversation in which notorious antisemite, Bobby Fischer, is mentioned... https://t.co/RScgNO4GAj pic.twitter.com/fMFp1QZQJ4

— Danny Morris (@DannyMMorris) September 21, 2023

good job good effort

Why are there three "n"s???? pic.twitter.com/f0brWhvCXk

— Johner Riehl 🦓 (@johnerriehl) September 21, 2023

Elon’s probably a No Nut November guy

The extra 'n' is for extra Nazis!

If Twitter did a No Nazi November all the blue checks would disappear

aah Nitter is not working today

the tweets on that advert were maybe just from the guy's personal feed and he maybe didn't notice because he was given all of 4 hours to make it as companies run by guys like Elon tend to do

BTW, that airport BBQ place responded to Brooks on Facebook:

Looks like someone was knocking back some serious drinks - Bar tab was almost 80% and he's complaining about the cost of his meal 🤔 keep drinking buddy - we get paid off everything.

I kind of admire that Brooks just left the tweet up and didn’t comment

There's nothing to admire about it; he's a persistent dumbass whose only survival strategy is knowing that if he admits he's ever wrong about something the rest falls in a house of cards. For all the Obama-starry-eyed moves of his once, he's more exactly like Trump.

*feels validated*

Tip: $0

The second most confusing thing about the tweet is that he apparently removed the tomato and lettuce from his burger and piled it onto his plate as a "salad"

the four empty ketchup sachets answer that: he has the taste preferences of someone younger than his wife preferences

I'm absolutely buzzing on the idea that Brooks typed up a draft of a column that kicks off with this anecdote and then spins into his patented set of homilies and unsubstantiated condescending garbage, the plane lands, he checks his phone and just very quietly goes to his laptop and clicks "Close".... "Do Not Save"

welp

At least two of the people who helped create the much discussed promotional video for X/Twitter this week have been fired by the company, according to multiple sources.

— Ryan Mac 🙃 (@RMac18) September 22, 2023

glory: blazed

Advertisers must love being next to a viral slavery meme that's so racist and anti-Semitic I don't even want to post a tweet criticizing it.

Why is no one talking about how shriekingly awful the music in that video was, dear god.

mortifying to have to explain that you were joking and then apologize for the joke being in bad taste

.@nytdavidbrooks explains his recent post on X about the cost of an airport meal:

"The problem with the tweet, which I wrote so stupidly, was that it made it seem like I was oblivious to something that was blindingly obvious."

"I was insensitive. I screwed up. I should not have… pic.twitter.com/mPAEU4OlUa

— PBS NewsHour (@NewsHour) September 22, 2023

"...gotten hammered on airport scotch."

Yes, Linda, make sure this creampie joke is in high res lmao https://t.co/mW8UjeMJd0 pic.twitter.com/CRD4fLh6Wm

— Kristi Yamaguccimane (@TheWapplehouse) September 21, 2023

Still coming up with the goods.

thinking about how the greatest trump impression of all time comes from some guy who only uses it to post videos of trump bullying walt junior pic.twitter.com/8jwOhEQ8FM

— G*rre (@springbris) September 23, 2023

These are all good cases for why Twitter should persist.

heh

X changed their IOS app page description to “formerly Twitter”, likely due to people not knowing it used to be Twitter pic.twitter.com/F9iImeeNlI

— Dexerto (@Dexerto) September 22, 2023

lol yeah I found that out yesterday when I was trying to get a screenshot of it to send a friend who hadn’t heard about the BYG thing

WTF is "blaze your glory" supposed to mean!?

Former glory

We hear for you.

"Blaze your glory" appears to be a repurposing of the phrase "a blaze of glory", which was originally embedded in the phrase "going out in a blaze of glory" and was meant to evoke the image of a violent death involving self-immolation. So, perhaps unconsciously, Elon kinda nailed it.

the man's never going to be a poster and it's obviously something he thought was clever and immediately rolled out without focus grouping it on the site

or he posted it and got a bunch of engagement from the dumbest sycophants on the planet and was encouraged

fact that they had to change it to formerly twitter shows that the name change must be hurting their downloads a lot, of course it wont help much, what would help is calling the app twitter

loving the letter x is extremely gen x brained, it was slang for ecstasy which then became e for old millennials which is more neutral less trying to be cool, blaze of glory feels way older, tho there was the bon jovi song in the prime gen x years

actually bottomed out (in books) during the formative gen x era

https://i.imgur.com/nVTAyrZ.png

doubt elon associates it with ecstasy just an example of how it was considered a totally bad ass letter

when i visited australia as a kid we saw a XXX sex shoppe and then we found out XXXX is queensland's beer and boy did we all have a laugh about that (this was like 1992 or somesuch)

theres also the ol booze jug with the xxx

https://www.prosportstickers.com/wp-content/uploads/nc/w/hillbilly_xxx_jug_decal__59901.jpg

reflecting upon it gen x is when the concept of being cool (acting aloof and wearing sunglasses) really ran its course

Weird how much they put into advertising castlemaine xxxx in the uk when it's nearly unobtainable here