This is what I hate about the homunculi of twitter company personalities. “Hahaa, did you see the way Walmart clapped back at IBM?“ Humanizing vast, faceless companies puppeted by sociopathic business majors triggers every rage response that my body can muster. Please, shut the fuck up
[Off-topic] Your display name is hilarious. It reminds me old viruses with double extensions, like hotpix.jpg.vbs
Thanks, I always hope people get a little giggle out of the momentary confusion. I’m surprised whenever people are legitimately fooled. Just click my name, I’m @gullible, you silly billies!
I assume its not showing your set name on voyager?
I don’t want anyone to miss out on the fun. [email protected]@sh.itjust.works should be what’s visible. Out of curiosity, does voyager offer the ability to change your display name?
Shows like this on jerboa
Ok. Thats why I’m not getting it. I just see [email protected]
And thats it.
Ah! The threads.net tag, nice.
Doesn’t seem to have the option to change or set one
It appears to be on the feature todo list
Why is Voyager like this? People are missing out some brilliant user names.
Like your reference to the meme? It’s a rather cool way to do it through emojis.
Can’t say I came up with it. I think I saw it on /r/collapse first.
Ohhey a fellow Voyager user!
I was also missing out on all the fun :/ lol
You got me last week, I did a double-take.
Damn, that got me! I was about to comment being like “woah! We get threads here?” when I finally noticed.
I think Boobzilla is an excellent one
If every MBA on the planet were suddenly teleported to Planet MBA…would anyone really miss them?
Make sure not to unknowingly send the telephone cleaners too.
People propagate this though. Company twitter accounts posting derivative meme shit is what people reshare. Most people consider Apple/Tesla/Pelaton/Nintendo to be their buddies and love it when their buddy seems like a down to earth, regular guy. It’s cringe.
unrelated but “the homunculus of Twitter” is a good nickname for Elon
Now I’m having visions of the high priestess X’twitterquatl sacrificing Mayan children on a pyramid as lightning flashes in an attempt to animate their engine of destruction; The Homonculus of X’twitter.
I’ll start believing brands are people when they start getting jailed for their (numerous) crimes.
Why are you on Twitter?
I’m allowed to hate things I’m not part of. My silent malice does little to dissuade folks from posting examples to lemmy
But they were all of them deceived, for another meme was made…
Sorry beforehand for the intrusive politics, but it’s kind of unavoidable for me in this case.
This is almost a textbook example of the Marxist concept of alienation. Once a brand takes over a meme, people are alienated from
- the meme itself - because nobody wants to sound like an ad board
- from the creative process behind the meme - because creating a new meme gets that sour taste in the mouth, as you feel that corporations might hijack it
- from human nature and themselves - because memes are a form of self-expression
- from each other - because memes are intrinsically social and it’s yet another social link being removed by the corporation hijacking the meme
I’d say the outcome is alienation; the process as the comic demonstrates it is a kind of recuperation, the process through which ideas (especially subversive or dangerous ones) are neutered and commodified.
You…think Marx invented the concept of alienation?
Yes! He also invented airplanes, internet shitposting, Santa Klaus, and Brezeln.
I’m joking of course. No, he didn’t invent the concept, he took it from Hegel. However that specific usage of the concept is the one from Marxism.
The fact that the word “alienation” already existed doesn’t mean Marx didn’t have a specific theory about alienation in specific contexts that ended being pretty influential for philosophy. Like, holy shit, Marx’s theory of alienation isn’t obscure. Do a minimum of research before spouting ignorant bullshit.
I went to my city’s pride parade 10 years ago and this past year, huge difference. Everything is commercial and expensive now and it’s just full of corporate floats
Waiting for the CEO of Disney to try to sell the Live Action remake of Coco by exclaiming that “his name Jeff” and then fail to understand why nobody liked that, to which he’ll respond by cancelling something popular on Disney+ and greenlighting the worst fucking thing ever to take its place.
(RIP Willow and Acolyte)
Is email a meme? Was the telephone a meme?
Don’t walk away guys! Use that shit, send me more spam! I love spam! Yes I would like a cruise to the Bahamas. Yes I would love to make over 2 million from the comfort of my home while loosing weight using wegovy! Please send me that virus! Oh you wanna serve your own email server to get out of Gmail? Nah, that’s impossible! Pay them 15 bucks a month! It’s worth it!
RIP email, and part for the soul of the telephone… telephone, we hardly knew you! First with your spin dial. I did 1 call with spin dial. Then your 3inch stroke push buttons, then your 0.01" stroke push buttons, then your virtual capacitance glass buttons…and then puff! He was gone.
I think they died as memes.
Does anyone remember a similar comic about Twitter a decade ago?
This is the way things go. If enough people come to one place order use one medium, it becomes a target for businesses who will squeeze it to death. Enough people listening to radio and this broadcast is brought by… New site that people start to use? Time to insert some corporate messages.
