when did twitter stop being cool?

^ arf

The thesis is that is is not ideal for grown-ups to have a major emotional investment in, or to build their personality around their regard for, stories about cartoon mice or space elves or superheroes.

(Especially as they do not have discrete authors, and are controlled by a company that actively cares about exploiting the reader for money 100% more than thye are interested in telling a meaningful story (via the means of financially exploited authors): the glimpse I caught of what I'm inferring Katherine's discourse to be was a sneeringly-phrased imprecation against training-wheels authors teaching themselves by making art about those characters, for fun.)

realistically, in that trite punk rock, well-intentioned way, probably 2007-2008

then it turned into this ugly monster where the good people just chill on its bunions but you can still smell its stinky feet

Twitter fucking sucks, it has always sucked. All social media is garbage.

The lifeblood of twitter is all about WHO is saying what and to be SOMEONE on twitter all you have to do is: whatever it takes using an insufficient amount of characters to do it. I don't trust anybody on twitter.

Twitter is great, just don’t follow shitty people.

Twitter is great when your pal wins a Gwyneth fanjo candle in a quiz, it explodes when lit, she sells the story to a tabloid, and the story goes viral with many, many LOLs.

If I had a nickel...

I upset Ripper Owens on Twitter once

I noticed a few years back, in myself and others, that any assertion I made in a public online forum had a subconscious primary motivation. I'd conceive of an assertion, think it was coming from a particular place, but in retrospect, I'd be able to see the subconscious motivation for making that assertion. In certain cases, the primary motivation would be full-tilt psychological projection-- identifying a pattern of behaviour in others, publicly speaking on it, without realizing (at the time) that I was, in fact, describing my own behaviour.

Having noticed this, I became more trepidatious about making online assertions. Twitter is, I think, just the most obvious arena for this tendency to thrive. I see rich people asserting that they're poor, and accusing others of being ostentatious about their wealth. I see the smuggest individuals I've ever met accusing others of smugness.

I mean, even this post itself has to come with a disclaimer... I'm not posting this to claim that I'm "above the tendency toward psychological projection in making online assertions", just that it's kinda prevalent, a constant byproduct of being online, in my own posting and others

Extending generosity that they might not deserve, you could imagine that smug people are extra-sensitive to it in other people because they are trying to fight it in themselves... maybe.

im just extra sensitive to it bc im a perfect judge of other people, nothing more to it rly

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never was i had myspace!

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write in vote for whenever half of all posts in the world became reaction gifs

ILX majority otm.

twitter stopped being cool right here

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsS6UfSXYAMMvKX?format=jpg&name=medium

Trump's getting back in in 2024.

Demolition Man

People are sharing the many films Sylvester Stallone has featured in after a user asked if people could name a movie that the actor has starred in that was not from the Rocky or Rambo series

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/06/jack-dorsey-is-offering-to-sell-the-first-tweet-as-an-nft.html

poll ultimately OTM

ffs you could probably buy a set of ancient Sumerian stone tablets for that price

it seems like a great way to meet new people, talk about interesting ideas, but also be silly and have some fun once in a while. seriously considering signing up for an account and getting in on the conversation.

The thing that tells me to Login/Signup no longer seems to have an X so I can't get rid of it :(

Oh, okay. I can see if I c&p to incognito mode tab.

was 280 chars really only in 2018 it feels like it's been around much longer

imagine what tweet threads would look like if they lowered the character limit to 14

The thing that tells me to Login/Signup no longer seems to have an X so I can't get rid of it :(

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