Zeta Reticulum

Seth in SF4. (Was) Eddie in GG X2 AC+R. (Now) Mai in FF:CotW.
10,000 reddit karma. Big Bang Theory defender. (Tweets are my own not urs haha)

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

To everyone who hates Yink:
Please leave him alone. He's just a lil baby boy with his whole life ahead of him. He doesn't know it's wrong to have such safe aerials, nor how much it hurts to be spammed with fire arrows. He has so much time to learn, so please forgive. God bless❤️

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

Frank Zeppo, 28. An unmarried bank teller, who has only one friend - money. A vile man, one that holds no principles, who will soon learn the most important lesson of all. A lesson that not only compounds, but holds interest. This bank is located squarely in, The Twilight Zone.

[frank zeppo @NoahPasternak]

Going out for the night, and Rod Serling narration from the heavens started introducing me as "a vile man, one that holds no principles" who will "soon learn the most important lesson of all". Troubling.

[frank zeppo @NoahPasternak]

Going out for the night, and Rod Serling narration from the heavens started introducing me as "a vile man, one that holds no principles" who will "soon learn the most important lesson of all". Troubling.

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

Watching a fellow hiker walk a little off the trail and immediately get brutally torn apart by a swarm of ravenous gnomes

[Chris Oldman © @AlsikkanTV]

I hate seeing him this upset

[President-Elect Toguro @PresidentToguro]

1) elon musk obviously runs his mom's account

2) instead of getting real pictures of family, he uses ai to generate them

3) that ai tag only appears when you use something other than grok to generate a picture so he doesn't even use his own product

4) this is all so dire that my hermit ass almost feels bad for him not having real people to celebrate with

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

@rfleury @paulg It was a thoughtless post made flippantly. Sorry.

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

I have done. Fuckin interminable boswollocks.

[Ilektra Mercury 🌟 @wokestalinism]

Read Marx. Read Engels. Read Lenin. Read Stalin. Please, I’m begging you, just read the theory.

[Joe's Mods @NintenJoee]

pink foid larp side of the goon

[Russell @ChelseasTopBoy]

‘We just got on with it in 1976’

Did you bollocks 😂 you’re the generation that moan about fucking everything.

[vost @foolibuster]

an oldie

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

Bad policy. Want to up fertility? Subsidise people having more children, don't force people having more children to work more (completely back-asswards).
Improve the job market = people won't spend months looking for a job.
Maybe try good, instead of cruel, policy.

[Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe10]

Restore Britain’s five step plan to end the welfare scam.

Number one.

No benefits for foreigners. Saves billions and billions every year. If a Somalian family is living on benefits in social housing funded by the British taxpayer, I wish them well. In Somalia. No discussion needed. Huge savings to be had.

Second.

The ballooning welfare bill is not solely down to foreign nationals, far from it. There are a huge number of British people taking the mick. The system is there for the taking, and they are doing exactly that. Claiming some disability or another, when there is evidently nothing wrong.

Face-to-face assessments are vital, regular and vigorous.

- Dedicated welfare fraud investigation units.
- Proper data-sharing between HMRC, DWP and local authorities.
- Automatic recovery of fraudulent claims from future earnings.

And actually through doing this, we can give proper support to those British men and women who genuinely need it. A fair, robust and compassionate approach.

Third.

A life on benefits for a healthy individual is NOT acceptable. If you can work, you must work. A few months to find a desired job is reasonable, but after that - if you want your benefit money, you will be put to work.

That is Restore Britain’s position.

Litter picking, street cleaning, gardening, scraping chewing gum off the pavement. Whatever. If it needs doing and you want the money, you’re doing it.

Random drug tests for those on benefits - if you’re getting high, the benefits stop.

Tough love.

Next.

Reintroduce the two child cap. Hardworking British parents shouldn’t have to subsidise indolence.

If you want more children, get a job.

Finally.

Tax cuts.

Raise the thresholds. Make it so that going back to work is financially rewarding. Obviously. Reward hard work, and people will do more of it. If people feel like going into work is actually worth it, they will do it. It must never pay to sit on benefits.

More training, more apprenticeships. A skilled and active workforce. Contributing, not taking. That is what we need.

A Restore Britain Government will ensure no household receives more in out-of-work benefits than the equivalent working family earns after tax.

The welfare system should protect those who cannot work, support those who fall on hard times, and help people back into employment as quickly as possible.

It should never be more attractive than work.

Restore Britain will reward contribution and ambition, not indolence and entitlement.

End the welfare scam, slash the bill, crush inflation.

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

Yes because she's an unaccomplished loser

[Octavian 🇪🇺 @posta_octavian]

What most people don't know about Greta is that she took the "you care so much about Palestine. Why don't you talk about [X] conflict too?" criticism to heart and now she's siding with Balochi separatists in Pakistan...

She's acquiring the kind of geopolitical knowledge a Chud can only dream of

[TaxedBrass @FakeTaxedBrass]

I actually think it's totally reasonable to fire someone for curling up on the floor and crying

[Zeta Reticulum @YinkedIn]

There's a reason he does that, you arsehole

[Ben Sellers @MrBenSellers]

I always forget how majestic Belmont Viaduct it is from the water. Spoilt only by the prick of a farmer who insists on putting ‘private land’ signs all over, as if it’s his right to stop people enjoying *our* river. Sometimes, I think we need another Mass Trespass movement.

[Niflheimm @Niflheimm155983]

He revolutionized online video game discourse is what he did, and in this house, Matthewmatosis is a hero. End of story

[hen @afterwayafter]

The only way you could think this was 90% of British culture is by being born and living the entirety of your life in a Slug and Lettuce

[TayZonday @TayZonday]

BIG PICTURE REASONS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• With no algorithms, the Internet was driven by novelty, not loyalty. Weirdness wins novelty.
• Myspace was #1 in social media. YouTube was unproven and Facebook had just opened up beyond colleges. YouTube needed a "model home" for what its cultural real estate meant.
• One person uploading a video that thousands of strangers parodied became YouTube's behavioral "model home." No other platform had that social dynamic.
• Soulja Boy, Chris Crocker, and other talented creators had viral YouTube videos that got widely parodied. "Chocolate Rain" became identified with a type of "shareholder safe" virality. YouTube's human editors promoted it on the front page.
• YouTube was an unproven business for both Google and creators. The idea of creators earning Internet money was not mainstream. I was added in round two of YouTube's experimental Partner Program. I believe round one had about thirty creators.
• Television remained the eight-hundred-pound media gorilla. Viacom's billion-dollar copyright lawsuit was an existential YouTube threat just as the first YouTube videos went viral. The fact that "Chocolate Rain" began on YouTube and transitioned to me being on CNN, Jimmy Kimmel, discussed by Carson Daly and dozens of other celebrities... came at a time when YouTube needed a Rosetta Stone. They needed to translate a massively subsidized, high-risk venture into understandable cultural value. "Chocolate Rain" became a stenographer of YouTube crossing over. I got parodied on South Park, Saturday Night Live, nominated for a People's Choice Award, sang with Boyz II Men on Tosh.0 etc.
HOW DID "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GO VIRAL?:
• "Chocolate Rain" was rushed to completion in April of 2007 since I had another song ("Love," made with Kooby) featured on YouTube's front page and wanted other new content. It sat at around 30,000 views until summer.
• "Chocolate Rain" got posted on Digg in July of 2007, an early Reddit-style social bookmark site. Someone saw it there and posted it on 4chan.
• 4chan worked to meme "Chocolate Rain," "Numa Numa," Rick Astley, and other things. In 2007, 4chan was dominantly "Howard Stern liberal." Being offensive, outrageous, and highly speech-tolerant used to be identified with leftist, avant-garde identity. My first inkling that "Chocolate Rain" was going viral was 4chan prank-calling Tom Green's self-produced show and the caller busting out singing "Chocolate Rain!"
MORE FACTORS IN "CHOCOLATE RAIN" GOING VIRAL:
• YouTube had no stereo sound in early 2007. I posted a free "Chocolate Rain" MP3 download, with a giant video banner announcing it, purely to circumvent this. I wanted my songs heard in stereo.
• "Chocolate Rain" begins with an instrumental and loops. This, combined with the MP3 download, made parodies easy. This was totally unplanned luck. It's like it was made to be parodied.
• I looked like Janet Jackson, moved like Mr. Bean, and sounded like Barry White. Not trying to mean-girl myself, just being blunt. I was a unique combination of attributes but also not self-aware. Social internet video of everyday life was a new experience. Like, "If that guy is singing 'Chocolate Rain,' what's MY neighbor doing?" Everyday life was transforming into a democratic video content frontier nobody had given much prior thought to.
• It's worth noting that 2007 was before mainstream mobile Internet video consumption. YouTube was overwhelmingly consumed on desktop computers and laptops. The later shift to engagement-optimized and loyalty-optimized social video was heavily influenced by phones.
PERSONAL FACTORS WHY "CHOCOLATE RAIN" WENT VIRAL:
• I built a bedsheet box in my living room to sing "Chocolate Rain" in because I'm agoraphobic. That's the opposite of claustrophobic. Boundaries supercharge me. It also turns out that lots of people have bedsheets to hang up.
• I moved stiffly and sang "Chocolate Rain" with elongated vowels because of dyspraxia, a neurological movement difficulty tied to me being autistic (first diagnosed at age sixteen).
• "Chocolate Rain" musically captured my tendency towards echolalia and echopraxia — repetition and reinvocation of speech and behavior. These are adaptations to being a partially verbal autistic who has to blend-in with speaking society. They also help in making catchy songs.

[Rump Dumpler @rumpdumpler]

He has trouble making friends