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doublejay1999 ,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting ‘bring back twitter’ at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.

vlad76 ,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Do you guys think there’s a part of him that realizes that people dislike him for a legitimate reason? I mean, he started out being the darling of the internet, when he was in the early stages with SpaceX and Tesla. His cult of personality was pretty large. Obviously he still has fanboys, but he has to realize that he ended up on the fringe, right? Right?

reagansrottencorpse ,

Not if he’s surrounded by yes men, which I’m sure he is.

nxdefiant ,

He’s surrounded by his own, privately owned and operated, yes-social media platform

aesthelete ,

He’s basically Darth Vader at the end of the prequel series.

hydrospanner ,

I think if it took him as long as it did to figure out people liked him, it’s going to take at least that long for him to realize they don’t.

Then again with the obvious ego boost of the first part of that, the question then becomes: even if and when he does realize it, will he care?

I look forward to the day his story is a cautionary tale.

krebstar ,

I would think so. But at this point, he has made his choice. Don’t think a baby face turn is in the cards. Might as well become Emperor Palpatine at this point.

vlad76 ,
@vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

If Musk is Palpatine, then is Zuckerberg Snoke? Does Musk have a jar full of Zucks like in that mess of a Star Wars movie?

AngryCommieKender ,

No way in hell. He thinks everyone is just jealous, not realizing that most of us don’t want the problems that come with being ultra-rich, we just think he is a spoiled brat.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I’d take a billion dollars though. Live out my life without ever needing to worry much about anything.

It’s that egotistical need to use that money to exert power to control people that I’m not interested in.

AngryCommieKender ,

A billion is way too much. 5 to 10 million is all anyone needs to retire. I can see maybe “needing” 25 million if your hobby is racing cars. More than that is just needless hoarding.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Yeah, but in real life I’m Nicholas Cage and I gotta buy a bunch of crazy shit. Couldn’t possibly retire on anything less than $800 million!

hackitfast ,
@hackitfast@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed. Take the money and do your own thing. Or better yet, help people that want to be helped.

FarFarAway ,

He knows, and he doesn’t care.

Once he became the richest person on the planet, he stopped giving a shit. Money buys anything he wants, so why should he.

Honestly, as much as I think he’s a db, and i dislike what hes become, I kinda find it makes him more relatable. I mean, who wouldn’t be consumed by extreme money and power? If anything, it distracts from the idea that you’re a giant cash bag and reminds people that you’re only human. Although from what I understand, he always been this way, and he just had a great PR team in the beginning.

Honytawk ,

With the tantrums he throws, I doubt he doesn’t care.

Pretty sure he employs a meme shitposter group that makes propaganda to make the internet like him.

Yewb ,

I think he found out that all the money in the world doesnt make you happy.

This fucker could literally change the world for the better for all of humanity and he does nothing but grow his own wealth.

assassin_aragorn ,

Hell you can figure that out by just making 6 figures straight out of college. There comes a point where you realize all you do is work because you’re too tired to do anything else, and your disposable income can’t get you anything meaningful to make up for it. I’m far happier for having quit and taking a pay cut for a remote job closer to my family.

I distinctly remember getting my hair cut when I was back home a couple months before I started working, and the stylist was someone in my high school graduating class. We chatted a bit and they mentioned money being a bit tight, and all of it just felt so wrong and gross to me. There’s no reason why I deserved more for my skillset than she hers.

Corgana ,
@Corgana@startrek.website avatar

The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding

Black_Gulaman ,
@Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Why chant bring back Twitter, I mean if it was rebranded back to Twitter, it’s still owned by Elon and it’s still shit.

ZILtoid1991 ,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

At this moment, I'm staying with my fediverse accounts.

Hiccup ,

Watching Twitter crash and burn under musk has been so much fun. It being a haven for all the worst dregs of humanity and an advertiser’s worst nightmare is just the cherry on top. Old Twitter before mush for brains musk was still salvageable. He’s somehow done everything to make it worse.

Kyrgizion ,

I’m not sure I’d call it fun, but there’s definitely something soothing in the thought that no matter how much I fuck my life up, there’s no way I can ever make a 44 billion dollar mistake. So there’s that.

ArugulaZ ,

The new name alone isn't what made Twitter crap, but it is symbolic of the massive changes made to the site by the new management. I like to think of it this way: Twitter is dead. X is the reanimated corpse.

Hiccup ,

X is modern New Coke. At this point, I’m not even sure which of the worst CEOs I’d compare musk to. He’s like all of their worst traits rolled into one. I have no doubt there’s some weird financial accounting going on at Tesla, just that they haven’t been found out just yet. His involvement into the crypto sphere and with doge should have thrown up regulatory alarm bells already.

clutchmatic ,

Why they care about twitter

PizzasDontWearCapes ,

They probably don’t care about Twitter - it’s just a way to insult Musk because he is obviously invested in the"X" rebranding

IndefiniteBen ,
@IndefiniteBen@feddit.nl avatar

There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…

Black_Gulaman ,
@Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A chant with more words becomes a song.

Now a song about how shitty x is, sang by hundreds, like what football fans do, that would be great to hear.

Piers ,

Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which “Bring back Twitter” + boos certainly achieves.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I would say specifically because he loves his precious X so much, thinks it’s such a great idea, that it’s a good chant.

Twitter was shit before Musk bought it. It’s just even worse now.

iegod ,

I think what we really want is to have it restored to pre-musk-ownership level of functionality. But that doesn’t make for a nice four syllable group chant. Also I doubt the douche is capable of ever admitting how wrong he was.

Black_Gulaman ,
@Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Definitely, that’s the best outcome, and also that’s the least possible one also.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I bet he’ll wipe his tears with the thousands of dollars he made there.

GunnarRunnar ,

At least he puts them to use. I bet he's sad all the time.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Yeah, crying in a pile of money. What a weenie.

ArugulaZ ,

He sure hasn't been making money with Twitter, if that's what you're suggesting.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

Twitter is just a toy for him.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

How else do you propose hurting him, and he deserves to be hurt, other than bruising his massive ego? He’s never going to be anything but massively wealthy whether we like it or not.

Dirk ,
@Dirk@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t think he really cares about random gamer nerds booing him.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I would think most people would not be in favor of a giant crowd booing their presence when they were there to enjoy themselves. Maybe that’s one of the ways Elon is special.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Thing is, Elon styles himself a gamer, so this one might sting a bit.

Then he’ll go roll around in his money and do some ketamine, so hey.

BruceTwarzen ,

He styles himself with whatever is popular

ImpossibleRubiksCube ,

He spent $44B. Thousands of dollars might be accurate, but let’s think about that for a moment…

Clbull ,

If Threads had hashtags and trending topics, everybody would abandon X in a heartbeat.

And I’m honestly quite baffled that Meta haven’t implemented them, since even Mastodon has support for this…

Saneless ,

Because Meta wasn’t finished and wasn’t expecting Twitter to shit itself so badly over a weekend. They were ready for the slow burn and Musk gunned it when he did his rate limit

admin ,

Who cares. Moving on.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Y’know, I’ve never understood claiming “who cares” when someone must care enough to comment. When I truly don’t care about something, I just scroll past it and ignore it. If you’re truly “moving on,” why not just, well, move on?

nutsack ,

because it’s annoying as fuck to see it all the time

Huschke ,

You could always set up filters to completely ignore Musk.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

Then curate your feed better? The only one responsible for what you see is you.

And scrolling by is a lot faster than opening a post to reply to it.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

That sounds like caring to me.

nutsack ,

this idiot getting media attention sucks ass how about that

admin ,

My comment was meant to imply that Elon Musk is talked about far more than he deserves. Especially when most of what he does is meant to troll or generally antagonize people. We have to stop letting disingenuous and downright dastardly people infect our daily conversations.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

I invite you to read Ronan Farrow’s recent piece on him and tell me he’s talked about more than he deserves. We need to be talking more about the shit he’s doing, because he’s got a lot more power than folks realize.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

Because when something is constantly in your face that you think is overblown, asking who cares is a sign that you are sick of the thing that you are unable to avoid.

It is hard to ignore when it is everywhere all the time.

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

…I think you missed a word there, because I’m not quite following your first sentence.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

All the words are there, but maybe rephrasing it would help you.

People often say "who cares" about stuff they are sick of hearing about that they think is overblown and they cannot avoid it. It is shorthand for "Why do so many people care about this pointless topic and won't shut up about it."

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

“Sick” wasn’t there when I read it, and it made it less than understandable.

And sadly, Elon Musk has more power than a lot of people are aware of and a lot more folks really do need to care about what he does.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

"Sick" was always there.

lingh0e ,

Thank you for letting us all know how little you care.

admin ,

Anytime.

Chozo ,

Am I the only one who finds it in bad taste to use an "admin"-named account outside of their own instance?

stopthatgirl7 OP ,
@stopthatgirl7@kbin.social avatar

It certainly gave me a moment of pause, and I had to look up who they were.

admin ,

I’m not sure how to remove it.

snooggums ,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

"Who cares? Move on." seems to be the theme here.

SociallyAwkwardLinux ,

Anyone else read Valorant as Voldemort?

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

The tournament that shall not be named.

vinceman ,

Good job gamers.

Asafum ,

Well now his ego is hurt and we get to see what else he ruins in a tantrum lol I wonder if he’ll try to buy out the IP and call it EX or something equally dumb lol

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

That’d be fun, especially considering that he’ll have to pay big bucks to Tencent, who wholly own Riot Games. All discussion would quickly devolve into a anti/pro China flamewar

randon31415 ,

If it was legal, Mastodon should just rebrand as twitter.

schroedingershat ,

Isn’t there a decent argument they’ve abandoned the trademark?

Cethin ,

No.

schroedingershat ,

Elaboration on the reasons why would be nice.

Natanael ,

If it’s still registered you’re going to need to wait far more than a few months before you can assume it’s safe to use.

…chron.com/trademark-abandoned-trademark-61426.ht…

3 years without use according to that reference

nxdefiant , (edited )

Ah, but they would have to sue to enforce it. I’d love to see his mental gymnastics on that one.

over_clox ,

Meh, if they did such a thing, they should go for ‘Tweeter’ instead. Not infringing on Twitter, while still humorously jabbing at Twitter LOL!

xuxebiko ,

Now his acts will be even more stupid and attention-seeking.

fluxion ,

Looking forward to several rounds of the videos getting banned on Twitter and Elon claiming he isn’t banning them the videos while also claiming the boo’ing was for something else

xc2215x ,

The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.

psycho_driver ,

Nah. Keep burning it to the ground.

Blastasaurus ,

Pretty sure that was his plan from the start.

CaptainAniki ,

Musk doesn’t plan. Stop thinking this is by design. He’s a FUCKING MORON

topinambour_rex ,
@topinambour_rex@lemmy.world avatar

the corporate ownership of formerly-essential social media giant

Savage

ArugulaZ ,

The truth hurts.

REdOG ,
@REdOG@lemmy.world avatar

This case is more like picking off a scab and it’s actually kind of a relief.

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