Hello to the dumbasses that follow me.
I am going to do a bit of slight rebranding.
Many of you know me from my obsession with 40k, my unapologetic prejudice/racism, and my undiagnosed schizophrenia.
What few of you know is that I am a millenial longhaul trucker.
Why this rebrand?
Because if I get any more content related to my industry that is in the form of wojacks and 'Notion - The Rare Occasion', I'm going to run an H1-B driver into a fucking ditch; not that they need help doing that.
Expect a lot more unhinged trucker talk.
"There is no time to explain!Get to the #technical!"
"There are always time to ask questions. Like. Is that a air-to-ground missile pod?"
"YES"
"And...Explosive reactive armor bricks?!"
"We were thinking on your Hoo-mie safety!"
#drawing for #gobril2023. Prompt #techie#goblin
Hello @elonmusk
I had the opportunity to interact with many Americans and was invited to a BBQ party. We talked about each other's lives and hardships. If you can add a "tap to translate" button in DMs, I think cross-cultural communication will be smoother. Thank you.
JP/EN Twitter algos being mashed together sounds like a great idea until you realize it gives way for the peasantry to spam iShowSpeed gifs in the reply section of Japanese tweets/artwork.
Listen…. Nobody is mad about Fukushima, we calculate the Ganges on the daily as far worse.
We are gonna call you the slant word, but it comes with a built in round eye / Gaijin (外人) pass.
It’s called talking shit, and you only do it to people you like at the BBQ.
You are formal and polite to the people you don’t like.
There’s this really weird pattern I’ve noticed in tech, crypto, art, online communities, etc where a guy will create something that becomes really popular or successful and then it gets captured by a bunch of faceless nobodies who make it worse or at least don’t do any better.
From that point, like scheming little court viziers, if the founder does anything other than roll over and die, they do everything possible to subvert his actions, denounce his name, and then desperately ignore his existence. If he should happen to gain any traction afterward, he gets desperately dismissed and countersignalled.
There never seems to be any ambitious intent to continue, expand upon, or even try to sincerely alter the trajectory either. It’s usually just a bunch of parasites suckling off the momentum from the juggernaut originally created until it becomes an emaciated husk. Ideas get thrown out without any real volition, executed poorly, generating little to no notoriety from whatever fans, audience, or enthusiasts were left after the initial excursion.
Despite their entire lives and time and energy being dedicated to orbiting around a particular thing, they have an incredible level of scorn for that thing’s creator. Left unchecked, their mindset shifts from “I could’ve done this” to “I actually did this first” while failing to do any better.
These individuals often tend to be risk-averse, low agency, fearful of direct confrontation, and generally unexceptional. They default towards appeals to authority, often utilizing cancel culture, consensus astroturfing, or other disingenuous methods which emphasize the need for removal without placing emphasis on themselves. They’re often “the responsible ones just picking up the pieces” after ousting the founder or creator under pretenses of bad optics, which are often the result of the same unstable creative energy that allowed something good to be made in the first place.
These kinds of court games aren’t new to history, but at least historically there’s some degree of dignity in the life-or-death consequences and stake of power that these games were played for in the past.
The phenomenon of people doing this online over the past couple decades is nowhere near as sophisticated, cunning, or deliberate as, say, an ancient Chinese coup or a 19th century political usurpation. It’s often bumbling doofuses operating on pure instinct, picking up unconscious consensus tactics and riding a wave of social inertia generated by unintentional displays of weakness (like undue generosity or lack of hierarchical enforcement) from leadership.
The funniest part about it is that you all think I’m subtweeting something specific but I bet each and every one of you can think of a different example of something like this happening. Maybe it was to a company, a movement, a franchise, a fandom, a forum, or even just a friend group. But all of you have either seen it happen or basked in the aftermath of it. It’s ruined something good you’ve enjoyed or something important you were a part of.
As human beings learn to adapt to the next stage of evolution (the Network Hivemind), we find ourselves rediscovering the same principles and mechanisms we had to learn throughout our history as a species. The lessons of the past are harvested and recreated digitally, as we both participate and observe our own development in the great Petri dish of the Network.
The sociopolitical mechanisms that online parasites have historically taken advantage of over the past twenty years are growing weaker. Fairly soon, genuine creators and contributors will have better context and weapons to equip themselves with, a proper immune system built up against the pungent thick vat of bio waste that’s encroached and corrupted everything we enjoy.
Like a tragic prophecy in a Greek epic, every dire social consequence the digital cockroach has wielded as a bogeyman to cater to his interests will come true. A better, crueler world awaits them.