Does anyone actually pay for Twitter Blue?

I'm sorry, is there actually anyone out there who takes the idea of tipping one's landlord seriously? I always thought this was just an absurdist running gag...

It will have been (or was?) a running gag til someone took it seriously. Like birdsarentreal used to be a flatearthers parody.
No matter how absurd the thing one makes up, there will be idiots believing in it.
- Satire has to be deployed with skill and intent, otherwise morons will mistake it for basic representation.
  
  I fear half the problem is the sheer ignorance to how even engaging with those terrible ideas has to be done carefully, and everyone just wants to crack jokes.
- Well they are literally taking birds and turning them into robotic drones now.
  
  Edit: it's real, I'm clearly being silenced by the shadow government.
  
  https://www.livescience.com/animals/birds/taxidermy-birds-are-being-turned-into-drones
So was Trump for president of the U.S at one point. Unfortunately absurdism is dangerous to use nowadays.

Who the fuck tips their landlord anyway?

Poe's Law strikes again. Based on the community, I'm to take it as a right-wing meme, but this feels like a parody of a right-wing meme, or at least a parody of something.

But assuming it's real, holy wow, that list of things that the meme-maker thinks people spend money on is the clearest, most-explicit result of right-wing projection I've seen in a long time.

Shows how delusional Lemmy can be that this OBVIOUS troll post is being taken seriously. The “tipping landlords” bit is a running gag.
- This isn't a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.
Idk looking at his Twitter page im not certain it's satire
- The funny thing about Poe's Law is that it implies that the crazies can't tell satire from agreement as well.

Some people when satire :

Who the fuck tips landlords? You pay them, they provide a place to live. That's the end of the transaction.

"Provide"
- Buy a house they can't afford then make other people pay the mortgage.
Right?

And are people still gambling on nfts?

I had a bunch of students I practically begged to not spend their money on a bunch of Monkey portrait NFT crap.

Now they (about 4-5 that I actually saw purchasing) own... something? A receipt for being gullible?

Isn't this obvious satire? This isn't a right wing meme, it's making fun of right wing memes.

I don't know how much cuck chairs cost, but if they are aware that they are expensive and I am not, it implies something about them.

I had no idea it was a thing until i saw this meme.

Back the fuck up. ‘Tip’ landlords? I think you mean bribing.

This is great satire

The fuck is a cuck chair?

The chair in the corner of the room you sit in while you watch your SO fuck someone else. Like those chairs in hotel rooms that always face the bed but don't have any tables next to them.
- That's just a chair in the corner of the room, which might be fine for a hobbyist just starting out. I'm looking for a proper dedicated cuck chair?

Swing and a miss, satire is dying :(

I've had a few different landlords over my lifetime and some of them are being quite bad and others have been okay but even the bad ones never expected me to tip them. They just wanted the rent and didn't want to do maintenance. Which was bad, obviously, but at least they never pretended it was good.

I also think it's amusing that the right think that NFT is a thing that people other than them buy.

"Tipping the landlord" its not like he already gets half my income!

Tip landlords? What? Everyone in the States have lost their minds.

It's not a thing here, at all... This is the first I've ever seen it said. Same goes for tipping cashiers.

Our tipping culture is bullshit, but this just isn't anything close to reality.
- Nearly every small shop and cafe has a tip option on their cashier POS and you usually have to opt out.