Which is exactly what iāve argued a hundred times.
I genuinely would not be surprised if half of these are being made by trolls for the explicit purpose of muddying the waters and confusing things to give cover/plausible deniability to what he actually says, since screenshotted tweets have apparently become a medium of information transmission.
Very true. Mentioned this elsewhere someone suggestion a large watermark:
I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.
I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if weāre big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heartās delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of peopleās knowledge and BS meters)
Ahh just canāt wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videosā¦
I went a different route, though I avoided placing the callout somewhere it may be accidentally cropped.
I hope the, uh, non-disinformation can have a simple start here, and if weāre big enough some day that kind of thing is a problem maybe we re-adjust. Of course, nothing stopping someone from recreating something to their less-scrupulous heartās delight. (in the case someone is re-creating something to intentionally mislead, not re-creating based on their expectations of peopleās knowledge and BS meters)
Ahh just canāt wait for the proliferation of high-quality generated videosā¦
Iād like to apologise now for when, in the future, I place a āparodyā sticker on a genuine social media post. I know, thereās something wrong with meā¦ but I thought Iād give you a heads-up about it as you seem pretty reasonable.
I was thinking of some (gentle) lazy flaming or trolling but your mention of instigating international conflict has inspired me to better myself and aim higher in life. Thank you.
Fuck Duolingo and any other company that thinks itās okay to comment all over social media. If you arenāt paying those people sponsorship deals to promote your brand, it should be illegal to hijack their page with your product.
Shit is disgusting and there is literally no worse offender of this loophole than Duolingo.
I recommend any time you see them in the wild telling them how disgusting it is that they think they can put up their billboards in other peopleās lawns.
Fuck that bird. Donāt even support their entirely manufactured meme status. Just give them zero fucking attention
Bro I get company shills exist, but thatās a big level of paranoia right there.
I swear, some people on the internet act as if you even mention a company name, that youāre some sort of paid corporate shill. No, man, sometimes I just talk about every day things in my life lol.
Iām not saying OP is a shill, Iām saying that Duolingo manufactured the āDuo is coming to get youā meme intentionally, and people are happy to be stooges so happily accepted it. I donāt think OP has any affiliation to Duolingo, but theyāre still normalizing their stupid trend so they can continue to leave meme comments on individual pages and get free advertising. It sucks.
Yes, Iām aware of that, but ubiquity doesnāt make it okay, and my ire for Duolingo is specifically because they have been the most successful exploiter of this circumstance
Thatās not what I mean. What I mean is that Duolingo frequently comments on individual user posts on tiktok, which tiktok raises as a high-visibility comment because Duolingoās size makes the algorithm think itās quality content. This means that Duolingo isnāt just advertising on their own tiktok page, obviously that would be fine, it means that they get to piggyback on viral content from completely unaffiliated users massively spreading their brand while providing no compensation of any kind to the creator of those viral videos. It wouldnāt be okay for somebody to run an ad before your content without your consent (we arenāt talking about the ads you consented to run by tiktok/youtube/whoever), so it shouldnāt be okay to use the comments as free advertising space too.
I think you should take it up with them. I hear theyāre super ethical and give a shit about what their algorithms do to people in the interest of farming data and profit
No, you should decide with your wallet, which is not to pay Duolingo, and decide with your choice of social media, which is not to use TikTok, and most importantly, you should petition your representatives and vote accordingly. What TikTok and Duolingo are doing is morally shitty, but itās basic late stage capitalism, and excepting the nations that are actively fighting against the shittiness of using and selling user data, itās not illegal
Yes, and I have. This solves me the personal grief of being reminded of their bad practices but does nothing to actually solve the problem. Not that I think āawarenessā is a great or in anyway meaningful solve, but if talking about the issue leads to a few other people also blocking Duolingo then at least I wonāt feel like I am forced to merely accept the situation as is with no protest.
Hey now, you just canāt call him āBennyā out of the blue. His birth name was Benjamin. Thatās what he should be called. Thatās exactly according to his own rules heās espousing. /very sarcastic of course
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