when did twitter stop being cool?

"Not only was it always terrible, but Twitter and Instagram have substantially devalued the very concept of cool."

I hate the word influencer. Sickening.

It’s true. Coolness thrives on mystique, scarcity. Clout is the opposite and the two forms of social currency cannot coexist.

v hard to be cool while imploring your audience to subscribe to your channel and smash that like button before playing a song you're still working on

as long as the 'gram exists, twitter will be cool, at least in a relative sense

It has the time, it has the power
It's yet to have its finest hour
Twitter

Had to go w/ 2015 because of indexing, "enhancing" the algorithm, and ditching the fleeting, dissolving character all together.

media twitter killed it

It's nice to go into a cave full of shrieking bats, but only for a few minutes.

cave full of shrieking bats is otm. it isn't always my twitter experience, but when it is, i know it's time for a break.

I love following people from Australia and England who are outside of our political context. Brexit talk is so soothing to me.

Outside your political contesxt, I think you mean.

This is not cool?

2018: Deepfakes could seriously destabilise global politics in the coming years and we should be alert to the dangers of disinformation spreading at a faster rate than ever before.

2021: …

pic.twitter.com/JLl8NgoQrA

— Pete Fraser (@petefrasermusic) January 15, 2021

there is still a lot of funny and clever stuff on Twitter

i love that Wellerman vid

i enjoy Twitter

i like things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_OXAOILYq0

who are the ppl being faked there?

Just 4 lads I think:
https://thetab.com/uk/2020/06/10/we-spoke-to-the-boys-in-this-picture-and-theyve-had-enough-of-your-jokes-161026

i don’t get the shrieking bat cave thing anymore. at one pt i felt an obligation to stay on top of the discourse and follow a certain core set of highly central accounts in politics media twitter, but there’s actually no reason to do that. the side effect is im rarely more than tangentially aware of what the main character of the day is. like i only saw passing reference to the fact that other people were tweeting about something to do with a bean dad, i never saw anything g directly about it and still haven’t looked it up

i always thought that “hell site” was something that big accounts said because once u got to a certain level of followers u start to get the attention of nazis and your tweets gets RTd and dunked on by random communities, and then smaller accounts just started parroting it unthinkingly even though essentially no one interacts with them and they can perfectly customize their experience

the thing is that people are just as hateful to one another in real life, and the attribution of it to twitter is 100% due to people not wanting to face that fact

ironically the "I'm not reading all that but I'm happy for you or sorry that happened" probably reflects the average person's amount of actual care for everyone else in his or her life, but because it's twitter it's twitter's fault

xp not, imo, a fact

im probably meaner to ppl on ilx than twitter, and irl i recoil in horror and lose sleep if i ever say anything even borderline misconstruable as impolite

if you're mean to people online that still counts as being mean to people, sorry to inform you

not what was said tho

im meaner to ilxors irl fwiw

it's exactly what I said; people compartmentalize being mean online as not being mean, and then blame it on whatever online service it is

i usually regret being mean on ilx. usually i just don’t look at the thread for 2-3 days

the thing is that people are just as hateful to one another in real life,

Not, imo, a fact, and exactly a quote of what was said

what I meant is that people do not become less hateful to one another just because the medium changes

i think that's fair enough but i do think the medium matters or changes things in ways which makes it very difficult to be sure about any big statements sometimes?

I think that's something that's probably open to serious challenge

xp

xp may have read that wrong tbh

If its "people dont behave any differently" then ime thats not right

If its "the same behaviour is no different just because of the medium" then it's up for debate

i love that Wellerman vid

i enjoy Twitter

i like things

like for instance today the Designated Wrong person was someone who said that Disney IPs were for children and people shouldn't like them. every other day the Designated Wrong person is people who watch Disney IPs. the only constant is hatred of people.

"Designated Wrong person" is not a thing that exists

And Disney ips are for children

Even searching Twitter for Disney I have no idea what that refers to

I do see tweets like this and they're correct that the Aristocats are cool

Disney + has these super cute little mini docs. On one, a Pixar script supervisor is talking about how she noticed that their movies were heavily weighted towards more male characters, and male characters having more lines...

— Ashley Nicole Black (@ashleyn1cole) January 16, 2021

oops like this

Who needs "That Cats Movie" when The Aristocats exists#Disney #TheAristocats pic.twitter.com/YxcoIQTHhU

— Movie Madness (@CinematicAppeal) January 16, 2021

“Designated Wrong person" is not a thing that exists

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, January 16, 2021

...except on ilx and all other social media

wow wrong again

lol

Denigrated wrong person

"Designated Wrong person" is not a thing that exists

― John Wesley Glasscock (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, January 16, 2021 8:27 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

"the main character," whatever, but it is a thing that exists

the tweet I was referring to -- I don't agree with the rest of the thread, but "you are choosing to give a corporate entity your creative energy" is a sentiment expressed over and over during the "if you disliked that martin scorsese movie but like the marvel cinematic universe you are bad and wrong" cycle and accepted as the self-evidently correct take that if you disagreed with you deserve to be mocked forever. but now it's self-evidently incorrect

"Fanfic is collaborative" "it's about community" nah sorry it's all corporate IP. Ultimately, someone else legally owns it, and you are choosing to give a corporate entity your creative energy.

— RS_Benedict (@benedict_rs) January 16, 2021

like if you're going to tell people they're horrible people for doing/thinking something at least just make up your mind on what you need to not do to be horrible

At least it changes every day tho

Lot to be said for that

maybe different people think and are saying different things, can we get a spreadsheet

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