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speaking to the void

[em @getziggywititt]

All these ticket bots in the comments😔

[em @getziggywititt]

Looking for CHBP/Cap Hill Block Party ticket for Sunday if anyone’s selling for cheap🫶🥺

[em @getziggywititt]

This is our “twitter hero” making likes private 🤦‍♀️ #privatelikes #elonmusty

[em @getziggywititt]

$GME $FFIE

https://t.co/BIiyHlBBnL

[em @getziggywititt]

After hours is just getting started baby🥱GME took weeks so can we!!! $FFIE $GME

[em @getziggywititt]

Discord for anyone interested in $GME $FFIE $AMC -> https://t.co/5TGCwqWjdZ

We currently have about 3k members and are a chill group for discussing these stocks in real time and their potential. Major bag holders in FFIE (+1m shares) are also in here 🙌🙏

[em @getziggywititt]

$GME $AMC $FFIE FUCK THE BIG THREE ITS JUST BIG ME

[em @getziggywititt]

@LumpyL0ads @MrMikeInvesting There was an influx of bots/spammers/fomo buyers during the mini squeeze at the beginning of the hype (mostly on the roaring kitties subreddit and he never even mentioned FFIE)… but I promise you there are many people and whales waiting around for the real squeeze #theyachtclub

[em @getziggywititt]

$FFIE

[em @getziggywititt]

@OmarGoshTV @elonmusk $FFIE censored on X?!

[em @getziggywititt]

@stoolpresidente how’s this $FFIE chart looking to you?

[em @getziggywititt]

$FFIE going to hit $3 in the AM hedgies feeling the heat now

[Why you should have a cat @ShouldHaveCat]

Love is pain

[Kenty @FakeKenty]

My friend gave me a hit to-go

[Ron Iver @ronnui_]

Ok but why did we all have to do this to impress George W Bush? Like why did he care?

[Spac𝑒 @sadcrib]

today boutta be a movie

[Hank Green @hankgreen]

I had this exchange with Elon here on Twitter over a year ago and we are still having the same conversation so I guess…let’s do this.

Fortune 500 companies aren’t overly moral actors. They make decisions based on whether they think they will make more or less money.

Advertisers are not leaving Twitter because they are trying to make a statement or achieve some goal (which would be a boycott). They are leaving Twitter because they aren’t sure whether advertising on the platform is delivering negative or positive value, and why spend a bunch of money doing something that might actually be /hurting/ you.

The reason it might be hurting them is fuzzier. But, in my opinion, it’s not mostly to do with their ads showing up next to bigoted content. I think it’s that this platform is increasingly all about one guy in a lot of people’s minds. That one guy is both the most influential power use of the platform, and the owner of the platform.

And that guy has trained everyone to expect that he is going to say increasingly inflammatory and unhinged stuff.

That means employees and customers of those companies (who /are/ moral actors) don’t get good vibes from the company they like advertising with a company they don’t like. This is a symptom of the culture war that Elon Musk desperately wants to inflame because he is stuck inside of a really tight “you are always right” feedback loop of fans and friends who feel incapable of questioning him.

He has attained a kind of moral certainty that he is fighting a war against an existential threat to humanity. That inevitably results in either an intervention of good friends or a complete crash (often times a violent one). But that’s when the person isn’t the richest person in the world. I don’t know what happens when it’s the richest person in the world, but I’m trying not to watch it like it’s a train wreck, because, just like with train wrecks, real people are getting hurt.

That moral certainty is allowing him to do things that are very clearly bad for the economics of the platform (but good for keeping people talking about Elon Musk, which (as a person who has fallen into that trap before) is important to keep an eye on as an underlying motivation for all of this behavior.)

It is not at all surprising that large advertisers, who advertise specifically to ensure their brands are perceived positively, are leaving (at least for the moment) a platform whose biggest brand ambassador is tweeting Great Replacement theories and Pizzagate memes.

It is not an attempt to change Twitter or Elon’s behavior. It is an effort to not lose money.

[em @getziggywititt]

Like snoop dog said

[em @getziggywititt]

Ben and I moving to Europe ong