Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'Bring back Twitter'
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
I'm so, so sick of seeing his face every time I browse the internet
Yeah him and that orange one. So so tired.
This addon helps a little bit but it's not perfect yet, it still shows some pictures https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-the-rich/
I can filter his name as a keyword on Sync for Lemmy.
Would be nice if there was a way to “spoiler tag” pictures for other reasons than nsfw
Hes a famous billionaire. Get used to it or media will shove it up yo ass.
that doesn't make any sense
Yup. He just generates too many clicks.
Don't let this clown go anywhere without letting him know how much everyone hates his ass.
If we can’t take his money, this is the next best thing
Let’s just hope he doesn’t have a humiliation/degradation kink.
We should take everything.
Bring back the classics. Not sure when/ why rotten tomatoes went out of style. Rotting onions could be a good remix/ update.
Tomatoes splat really well, especially rotten ones. Maybe eggs would be good, but tomatoes are cheaper. I think an open source easy to make at home slimy and smelly (preferably also something that stains) water balloon solution could do the job for a modern consumer base. Who wants to carry around smelly rotten tomatoes?
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.
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.
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.
There's only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance...
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.
Yeah and the key part would be to get up his nose which "Bring back Twitter" + boos certainly achieves.
At this moment, I'm staying with my fediverse accounts.
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.
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.
Definitely, that's the best outcome, and also that's the least possible one also.
Why they care about twitter
They probably don't care about Twitter - it's just a way to insult Musk because he is obviously invested in the"X" rebranding
I hate Elon Musk as much as anyone else with a working brain but let's be honest, the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died lol
Maybe. But the fact is that it was used by people in uprisings. It is a powerful tool for the people. There is a reason why wealthy people from the middle east backed and funded musk taking it over. They wanted to take away a tool used by the people in revolution.
It probably contributed to a lot of stupidity and human suffering, but it also could have been used to great effect if us common folk could have learned to wield it appropriately. The rich and powerful were afraid of it, that alone should tell you that it's death is a bad thing.
Exactly it was allowing us lower class a place to try hold large corporations liable.
I remember using it to call out large corporations when some franchise fucked up. 9 out 10 times the issue was addressed.
But a lot of people use it to organize.
Musk wants to destroy any tool that would aid people to rise up.
the world would be an infinitely better place if Twitter died
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All sorts of people who don't know each other put images or video up, and the community is pretty good at associating it.
I think that Twitter is good for footage of emergency-type situations.
All that is happening is why Twitter was never the right place for this type of information.
Lazy journalism dictated by corporate bean counters and now we have whatever x is.
Imo the biggest problem is that it's way too easy to use. Something as simple as an 8th grade math question or hiding the tweet button in a menu would make it so much better
Fuck Musk. He built an entire automotive platform on the concept of "sustainable transportation" and took those on the right to task for denying climate change. NOW he's supporting the POS GOP candidate that had the audacity to call climate change a "hoax" repeatedly at the debate. Fuck you Elon!
Dude Elon never did anything. Only people he paid with emerald slave money did.
Ehz he didn't built an automotive platform. Other people did that, he bought it and green it mostly through controversy and by now it's quite clear that Tesla's are quite shit to own and drive.
Teslas are awesome to own and drive. It's an annoying checklist that takes an hour when you first get the car to make sure your car isn't one of the ones with the bad panels, doors that don't close nicely, etc., But you can decline the car if it has any of those things, or they fix it right away. Once you are through that part it's really a great vehicle, especially if you have a charger at home. Gad stations are super inconvenient if you think about it.
now it’s quite clear that Tesla’s are quite shit to own and drive
By whose metric? Tesla owners have a 97% approval rating. I know tons of people that drive Teslas and they have zero maintenance other than tires and windshield wiper fluid. Hate on Elon all you want, but to assume the cars are shit because he is shit is just juvenile.
Sued the owners to force them into calling Elon a founder.
Elon didn't even found the company. He just sick'd his lawyers on the founders and bought his way into the "founder" title.
Keep your friends close.
Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.
Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.
Him showing up to a Valorant tournament is some next level "how do you do fellow kids". Like, what's his business being there? I mean, if you told me that he secretly just spends his days playing Valorant and shitposting on twitter, it would make a lot of sense.
He definitely surrounds himself with yes-men, mf can't read a room.
You could spell it out in large letters written in crayon and Elon would still fail at reading the room.
Like when he got booed at a Dave Chaplle show. The guy thinks he's loved and adored everywhere he goes because there's still a few pathetic worshipers on the internet.
the corporate ownership of formerly-essential social media giant
Savage
The truth hurts.
This case is more like picking off a scab and it's actually kind of a relief.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Good job gamers.
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
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
Haven't drugs been used as an explanation for his mammoth missteps with Twitter? Because the way this guy is piloting the ship, he's going to crash it into Prince William Sound at any moment. They'll be scrubbing stupid posts off the seabirds for months.
Well thank you for making me choke on my coffee. That seabirds comment really caught me off guard.
Drugs, a breakdown, midlife crisis, or just Elon showing us who Elon actually is. Find out on the next episode of downward spiral!
They should have rushed him.
Oh no, now what is he going to ruin. This man has a "new idea to improve things" everytime a crowd boo's him
Nah. Keep burning it to the ground.
Pretty sure that was his plan from the start.
Musk doesn't plan. Stop thinking this is by design. He's a FUCKING MORON
The bring back Twitter chant is pretty hilarious.
Don't stop him! He's making the world a solid! He's eliminating Twitter ffs.
Give him new ideas like join with a paid invitation only.
The issue is, as others pointed out, that Twitter was extremely powerful for groups in oppressive countries to coordinate their activities. So much so, that some governments had resorted to switching off the internet for the whole country to combat social media; particularly Twitter.
It's entirely plausible that the supposed large sums of money that Elon received from Middle Eastern groups to help buy Twitter was for the expressed purpose to destabilize Twitter and destroy the brand. That way once Twitter is gone dissident groups can no longer organize and will be easy to oppress.
The rose colored glasses Twitter junkies suddenly got for Jack Dorsey is astounding
picture yourself in a pit of swaety gamers chanting 'bring back twitter' at a guy wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire.
I wonder if Howard Hughes was met with boos when he went out in public, and is that why he ended up becoming a recuse?
Is Musk a germophobe yet?
"Hop in the plane, Smithers."
"But sir-"
"I said hop in."
Howard Hughes suffered from really profound OCD and chronic pain in a time before effective medications for either of those. Arguably, effective treatments still don't exist. He became a recluse because he wasn't well enough to appear in public. I understand why the comparison might spring to mind, but I'm pretty sure Elon Musk is just an entitled asshole and not disabled.
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...
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
Fuck Twitter. Twitterites need to grow up and move on.
Easy for most of us casual posters in the west to do. What sucks is that it was the platform for legit entities to transmit information from for years. Those accounts can't just up and leave a readily as us response accounts
So what's to stop them from posting to literally any other large social media platform?
You act like Twitter is the only platform for sharing information when Reddit literally exists.
Now his acts will be even more stupid and attention-seeking.
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
Yet another charlatan besmirching the Tesla name.
Bring back Twitter
I've never had an account on the service before or after the rebrand, and for the three or so people who I occasionally glance at the accounts of, I normally use nitter.net.
However...was there actually any significant functional difference associated with "X" rebrand?
The most-significant technical shift that I was aware of was many years back, when they increased the tweet character limit.
No, it's just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying "X, formerly Twitter" because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It's a bad name for an Internet service. It's generic. It doesn't do well in web searches. It doesn't sound good when talking out loud. It's all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached "Kleenex" or "band-aid" status in being the default reference for the concept.
And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.
And what URL do we use to view X? Oh, is it still twitter.com? Musk is a fucking clown.
Nope, the rebrand was just for Elon’s ego.
There isn't supposed to be, but with the number of engineers and devs he fired a long with his whimsical attitude towards changing things, well, things have broken.
Embeds seem to be hit or miss. The two factor auth API went down for awhile. I'm not a big Twitter person. I'm sure there's more to list.
For a few days they required you to have an account to view tweets, but they changed back pretty quick.
I've also noticed that previews have stopped working when someone posts a Twitter link in Discord, but I don't know if that's intentional.
Anyone else read Valorant as Voldemort?
The tournament that shall not be named.
I bet he'll wipe his tears with the thousands of dollars he made there.
At least he puts them to use. I bet he's sad all the time.
Yeah, crying in a pile of money. What a weenie.
He sure hasn't been making money with Twitter, if that's what you're suggesting.
Twitter is just a toy for him.
Who cares. Moving on.
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?
Thank you for letting us all know how little you care.
Anytime.
Am I the only one who finds it in bad taste to use an "admin"-named account outside of their own instance?
It certainly gave me a moment of pause, and I had to look up who they were.
"Who cares? Move on." seems to be the theme here.
I'm not sure how to remove it.
