Twitter C/D

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

it was big in uk pubs in the 90s iirc

c’mon man the x-files are right there

x-files yeah thats the stuff

scully: victim died of multiple stab wounds
mulder: *throws her a file* ever heard of the knife alien

— 𝔭𝔭 (@athleisure_monk) June 3, 2016

there’s an entire late gen x early millennial cohort who think the x-files were sexy and cool

every magazine article about the show or an interview accompanied by the hottest scully and mulder pics when they were too busy finding the knife alien or getting alien embryos implanted to actually do it

late gen x early millenial cohort otm tho

yeah i mean its a good show

its bad and you should all feel bad

ever hear of the its a good show alien

i’m in that cohort obviously
brb going to watch an x-file

Millennium was a much better show than The X-Files.

too creepy and no scully or aliens

welcome to Xfile's home of the Xfile may I take your order

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

its bad and you should all feel bad

Wait was x files about actual files

x number of files

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

― lag∞n, Sunday, September 24, 2023 12:58 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Google ngram viewer needs to incorporate back issues of Metal Edge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfmYCM4CS8o

Millenium was sponsored by Philadelphia cheese on Portuguese TV so it had that going for it.

tweet fact

i’m early millennial but i unjustly disdain xfiles as nothing but corporate-processed twin peaks (yes i’m sure i’m not gen x)

I used to sneak into my parents room (at 9pm) as an eight year old to watch the X Files, show is and was legit though I stopped watching around s4 or so. The knife alien tweet is all time.

many xposts but Millennium was MAYBE good for two seasons, and that’s generous allowing that s1 was patchy.
s3 was a dud. but s2 legit great.
so it had one great season.

no way that eclipses xfiles! unless yr just being some contrarian rockist out here trying to love a show no one remembers well enough to argue with you :)

X-Files was legitimately good to great for five, maybe six seasons give or take. even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc, which WERE consistently fucking great tv and that was reliably true for a few years before it fell apart.

Tooms >>>

>even the worst monsters of the week eps were just the vegetables you ate to get closer to another alien story arc

rong, you put up with the incoherent mythos episodes to get the MOTWs